Evening star., 1896-10-31


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which gentlemen are forced to carry i'm
Paris when they stay up late.
The Trade of Bully
The Paris bully's favorite weapon is the
knife. which he invariably carries He
is also strong at the French boxe, which
includes very murderous kind of kick
ing. The women who support him look
to him for their protection alike from
tipsy los fers and the police. When the
money is Tot Forthcoming from his partner
in crime he demands il, or even forces c
from her At 2 o'clock in the morning
certain streets of Mcntmartre and along
the outer boulevardS afe often vocal with
the shrill cries of women and their soute-
neurs engaged in their intermina BILE quar-
rels. And the souteneur's one final argyll
ment Is the knife he Carries. Sometimes
ne mas to be the principal actor himself,
when as companion fails to bring him
money. Then he uses her as a decoy for
some weil-to-do simpleton that wander5
alone through the Paris streets by night.
She manages to lure the victim into some
side street. Then the souteneur appears,
and. as the French say, makes the SIM
pletoa sing When everything else fails
force will be used to extort money, and
here again the knife is the last argument.
Doing His Work Alone.
When his companion is in prison. as
often happens the souteneur can no longer
drink and play cards in the wine shop
while waiting for his money. He has to
take up the trade of robbery along with
others like himself. and as he grows
older. this becomes more and more the
occupation of his life. He long since ac-
quiz ed taste for dangerous ladventures.
with orgies of drunken vice. Now the
woman ia n I'm, nd
longer the principal actress in his exploits.
But he keeps to the belief. which every
Frenchman seems to have. that 1t is the
womans 6uty to support him. A few years
ago souteneur. sixty years of age, mur-
dered his companion. He was astonished
that his defense was not received. Il am
too old to work. She was my support for
more than forty years. ] found out she
was workiEg for me against her will, an
SO killed her.
A Sad Cnse ia Point.
Only last week man thirty years Of
age and well dressed was beating brutally
a young and pretty woman near the
church of Notre Dame de Lorette. 1t
was in the evening. when many persons
were passing by. Some of them interfered
and disarmed the man, who complained
loudly al impudently that they were
meddling in his household affairs.
This woman is mine,'' he cried. ''She
belongs to ne and 1 have the right to
punish her with my cane as much as L
wish"
The unhappy creature simply wept. while
drying with her handkerchief the blood
which flowed from two deep wounds in
her face. The policemen brought the cou-
pie to the commssary. He at once recog-
nized in the brutal fellow a man named
Euger Caliot, a souteneur by trade. lie
was living in the rue d'Athenes with this
pretty girl of twenty years old. Jeanne
Bouvier. He obliged her to bring him
every day from twenty to twenty-five
francs When she had not money enough
for this. he beat her cruelty. She was
SO terrified by his threats that she did
not dare to complain and still less to leave
him.
How tho Girls Become Free.
Sometimes, however, the girls tire OF
these parasites and give them up to the
police. In such cases it is their ambition
to have their former lovers given as heavy
sentences as possible, in order to secure
themselves as long possible from VEN
searce or the mans release. The habit
Is to lay some plan of crime, inform the
police and nave the unsuspecting bully
caught while in full preparation for the
act
The fury of these criminals when their
companions try to escape from their
clutches is naturally without bounds The
whole apprenticeship of their trade has
let them with but one idea of woman's
duty. When the woman fails they apply
cult to ascertain what The women think
of the matter. The mere protection af-
forded them explains much in certain quar-
ters of the city and among the very low
est classes. Here the women really need
protection from the gangs of loafers who
infest the outskirts of the great city and
the manufacturing suburbs. In the better
sections however. the souteneurs work
is rather to give moral support and conf
fort.
A young girl who had taken part in
murder. in which she unwillirgly served
as a decoy, expressed her happiness at
being arrested. Il am glad to be delivered
from that man. He would have killed me
some day" She was asked why she had
rot quilted him before; in case of need
she could have denounced him to the po-
lice. Her answer shows the consultations
of which the female heart is capable, and
it throws bright light on the mysteries
of Paris crime
During the daytime 1 was so lonely
that l was glad to have him near me. He
was company for me. What should / have
done with. ut him? And then, / despisei
him in my heart and it gave me pleasure
to think that he was still more isnoble
than myself" STERLING HELLO.