St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-15

devotion to duty are only equalled by
personal courage. One or two instances
may be given. In June, 1856, he seized
a runaway carriage horse which was
careering down the street, and chung to
it until. after being dragged along for
$50 yards, he was borne down, and both
horse and vehicle passed over his
body. For this act of bravery, which
cost him some days in bed, he
was awarded silver medal.
Not long after he had returned to duty,
and when still suffering from the effects
of the accident, he was ordered to inves-
tigate jewel robbery. Suspicion fell
on one Didier, to whose lodgings Ros-
signOl repaired. No one was at home,
so he set mOuse-trap-that is, he
enscOnced himself on the premises and
waited. Next morning little girl came
and asked for NJ. Didier, saying that
man was waiting below to see him.
ROSSignol slipped down stairs, but the
man, on catching sight of him, instant
ly took to his heels. The detective
pursued and seized him round his body,
whereupon the man, who had a dagger
in his hand. plunged it again and again
into his defenseless opponent. Faint
and bleeding from six severe wounds,
RosSignOl clung 10 his prey like ter
rier, and, fixing his teeth in the mans
arm, made him drop the knife, nor did he
relinqu1Sh his hold until assistance ar
rived and the ruffian was secured.
Even then he insisted on accompanying
his capture to the depot. The man
turned out to be DuYal, a notorious
anarchist and desperate.
''Wait bit. my boy" he howled fero-
ciously, 81 shall meet you again, and
then l shall finish YOU"
The other members of the gang were
subsequently, captured. ROSsigDOl, who
was laid up for several weeks, received
gold medal and gratifying letter
from the prefet de police to this effect:
81 have already expressed in person the
feelings of esteem and sympathy with
which your long career, abounding in
acts of cOu rage and devotion, has in
spired me. | am proud to command
force which includes among its men,
bers men such as you"
RossignOPS first remarkable le feat was
performed in April, 1879. in connection
with the case of the notorious murder
ers, Giles and Abadie, whose arrest he
assisted in effecting. In order to COM
plete the evidence against them it was
necessary to recover certain articles,
and particularly a knife. which they
were believed to have thrown into the
canal st. Martin. The diver, however.
was taken i'll before the completion Of
the task, and RoSsignol, though he had
never done such thing before, volun-
teered to take his place, which he
did with complete success. He
remained under water for several
hours, sending up one thing
after another, and finally emerged
81, IN
his grasp. The incident is characteristic
of the GOODNESS and determination of the
man. He received a special reward of
80 francs and rise of 100 francs year
salary. Shortly afterwards he performed
another voluntary acQuatic feat. A
horse had been brought to bathe in the
Seine. The cOachman, seated on the
shore, let go the reinS, which became
entangled about the animals legs. and
it was fast drowning when Rossignol
jumped in just as he was, freed the
reinS and brought the poor beast safely
ashore. The coachman offered him )
francs for the Injury done to his
ciotheS," but it was. of course, refused.
His reward on this occasion was 25
francs and an attack of bronchitis which
laid him up for week.
IN the following year he had an OPP
pOrtunitv of displaying in a sensational
case his remarkable capacity for track
ing criminals. A widow named Stor-
deur was found murdered, and amid
great excitement the police were set to
hunt for the assassin. After much IN
Blister, who, however, had disappeared
and left no trace. Agents were dis
patched in different directions, and
among others ROssignOl and Jaume,
who worked in company. They dis
gUiSed themselves as peddlers, and set
to work Systematically to Scour the ell
virons of Paris.
Their Investigations led them to sus-
pect the identity of BistOr with cer-
tain Charles, and they traversed from
one neighbOrhOOd to another, inQuiring
from door to door after the latter. At
last they reached Creil, and there came
upon his traces. The people at the inn
knew Charles, and directed the sup
posed peddlers to his house, where
they found his wife at home. ROSsig-
mol represented himself as an old friend
of Charles, and expressed much disap-
pointment at missing him.
MA fol-" he exclaimed, 81 shouldn't
like to leave Crell without shaking
hands with my old pal"
The woman, who had been suspicious,
fell into the trap, and informed them
that she expected him back at II O'Clock.
Meantime they had taken stock of the
premises, and noticed certain evidences
which made them pretty sure that
Charles was their man, so they accepted
her invitation to await his return. At IL
he appeared with two friends, and all
three were arrested the moment they
crossed the threshold, though two were
armed with revolvers and one with
cold chisel. Charles turned out to be
the murderer, BiStor, and his friends two
other malefacters.