The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-13
REVENGE OF TWO WOMEN.
Two Stories Told Over Cigars in a
Paris Cafe.

From the philadelphia Times.
paris. March 2O.-There were three of
80 sitting on the terrace of the Cafe Moka
discussing an early dinner-early, for 8
o'clock is not late in Paris-and over the
clears we fell to talking.
One of our trio was retired French
secret service officer, the other an English
man who. at the end of the eastern war,
had forsaken the dull life of war cor
rssoondent of the London Times for the
oranfful one Of dairy farming in Essex,
and the third-myself. Cur conversation
tgrued upon the points of agreement be-
tween the French character and that of
the Spanish and Italian.
speaking of revenge" said the
Frenchman. 1T is not all in italy or
Corsica. 1t is instructive in all the Latin
nations. and we French have plenty of it,
TOO. Revenge is particularly a feminine
trait with US, and the police records show
that 30 per cent. OF crimes whose motive
is revenge are committed by women.
The surangest thing of all is that the
revenge of the trenchwoman is not al
ways inspired by hate, and that she
e
with The most unsoftening vengeance.
When | was young man on the secret
service a case was much talked of which
will illustrate this
Feli5 fresh cigar, while we drew up
our chairs. knowing that good story was
coming
After Vidocq." he continued, who
was perhaps the greatest detective
France ever had, his successor,
ln
tenn which had made Frances police the
best informed of the world, in the hands
of ex-convicts, and the system fell into
disrepute Then came the great Canler
as chief of the secret service, who took
hold with an iron hand, did away entirely
with the convict service, which served
only through fear and established an en-
tirey new order of things.
GAMERS plan was to work to a great
extent with women. He believed Them
superior to men as detectives, because of
their inherent love of intrigue. Canler is
said to have employed in his spy system
women from every class in Paris, from
the lowest courtesan to the highest nobil-
ity. aud by means of the latter, he sue
ceeded in dis overing some of the plots
viii n mighthaVe otherwise overwhelmed
the state.
For a number of years, the most
NdlUdDLG dlu given 10 AdulGI was blldJ VI
a woman named BOurtin. He himself, in
all his celebrated memoirs, attributes
much of his success to this woman, but
when he wrote, all of her story was not
old
she was said to have been born of
good French family and to have run
away, when a mere girl, to become the
mistress OF a criminal. living in the
Quarter st. Denis. She was woman of
great beauty, and it was by her manage
meut that her lover became the leader of
one of the best organized and most dreaded
bands of criminals in Paris. Three sew
eral times it was thought to have been
rooted out, and the leader was sent to the
prisons, and each time his release was the
signal for a series Of most daring and mys-
FERROUS crimes. The woman was
wei known in Paris, but she
laid her plans with such
extraordinary skill that the police could
not find proof against her, and she had
sucE hold upon the members of the
band that not one of them was ever
known to have involved her in con-
fesslon- On one occasion, it is said, on
the eve Of daring robbery, she con-
tuyed to weave mesh of suspicious cir
cumstauces about a secret service officer
who had been detailed specially to watch
her movements, and, incredible as it may
seem, forced him to be silent party to
the crime by the threat that if he ex-
posed her she would declare him to be in
league with the band This showsthe
tremendous audacity of the woman, and
also her ingenuity.
AT length, however, the police secured
a hold upon Doth man and woman, and
they were sentenced at the same time, to
IVe years Imprisonment with labor. The
woman Immediately communicated with
Nanler, promising important revelations
as Inc price of her pardon. Canler &C
CepJed the agreement, and she was par
uoned, but the willy chief refused to par
4on the man, Judging that through him
ne might retain a hold upon her. She
-o'ed this man with a love that would
nave made her sacrifice her companions.
her life ana her soul for him. and Canler
knew II. He therefore made an agree
me0t with her that if she would serve a
year under his orders as a secret service
spy ne would pardon him.
10 this she agreed, and went TO Tou-
ION, where She visited every evening the
bureau OF the chief of police and made
Mer revelations. The extreme beauty of
,ne woman and her powers of fascination
ldl brought into her power some of the
IoremosJ statesmen of France and she
-au uFed as complete a double life as can
'Id SiIleu. with her only desire to OBJ
Jam the mans freedom, she kept nothing
PACK, concealed nothing She BETRAYED
ner ola comrades in crime and disclosed
I'pehlng state plots. She pointed out the
men VINO were dangerous and they were
puC under surveillance. She enabled the
ponce TO put their hands upon the authors
"uu TO clear up the mystery shrouding
aIIilos or the past. In all of this duplic-
ny lne woman ran terrible risk, for if it
NAG teen known, allthe beauty in tho
World would not have spared her an awful
,oA-eance. Canler did no5 repent of his
odr@aln, and at the end of the year the
ma9 was pardoned and her connection
WIN The police then ceased.
inns, If anything could, shows the SUI
pISLt love of the woman for her crimi-
"u ,!i,o?Fer, and yet hear the sequel.
..t ne man became infatuated with an
gg;uer woman, and the woman, Bourtin,
n'S.oFered 1t. 1t was without doubt only
passing fancy, but the fact had no
iId'lon IN her eyes. She covered him
"N4 scorn and drove him from her, and
''uU 70 I'VE IN another part of the city
an oid crime was finally raked up
oL-a'lsU nm and though it was said that
an' CouIu nave cleared him, she did not
Wy, n her lips. He was condemned to the
Foue5 Tor life and though she went to
,.. w W4thn sie hit of the walls of the
l'son Which held him, she made no fort
~ -dlh MN par don, as she had done be-
toIe. During the years that followed she
b,ler attempted TO communicate with