The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-23
A GALLANT BLADE.
MISS MAY LANGRIsHE AND THE
GERMAN OFFICER.
This Lovely Irish Girl Knew How to
Resent Soldierly Insolence, and
Was Ready to Punish Whole
Regiment at the Swords Point.

A really romantic story of woman's
daring, and how it successfully pun
lshed the militant bullying of an i'll
bred German officer, comes from Stuff
CART, via London. The heroine is Miss
May LangriShe, well-known in the
United States as a former lady lawn
tennis champion. In three consecutive
tennis tournaments Miss Langrishe de-
feated Miss Mabel Cahill, the woman
champion of America; and she has WOE
/ for herself considerable fame as the
! best petticoated fencer in Great Britain
and Ireland, or, indeed, in all Europe.
Miss Langrishe is the eldest daughter
of Sir James Langrishe, an Irish
baronet of good family.
Everybody who has Travelled in Ger
many knows the bumptious nature of
the average officer. Only quite recently
two respectable civilians were killed by
uniformed followers of the emperor,
just because they interfered to save
their wives from insult in public places.
AS a matter of fact the officer in the
various Teutonic states considers a
gentleman in plain clothes, as well as
the ladies who accompany him, fair
game for impertinence. Every now
and then some Dlucky American or
Englishman resentS these insults at the
sword point, or pistol muzzle; but the
native civilian prefers to grin and bear
1t happened just a year ago that
Miss LangriShe, in company with her
aged father and a clergyman of the
church of England, was listening to the
band in the kursaal at Stuttgart, when
some young fellows in uniform ap-
preached the party and made imperti
nent remarks. Sir James Langrishe,
although a very feeble man, resented
this conduct and struck one of them
with his cane. He was instantly con-
fronted with a drawn saber and would
have been run through on the spot had
not some walters dragged him into
safety. Miss Langrishe, seeing her IA
theirs plight walked boldly up to the
rfflgleader and, drawing off her long
glove. smote him across the face. Bully
as he was, the fellow could not we'll
stab woman.
HAS the fraulein a representative?
he demanded.
Miss Langrishe answered that her
brother would act for her; and, giving
her brothers address as the hotel in
which she was staying, she took the
arm of the English clergyman (whose
cloth, of course, precluded his fighting),
and reioined her father outside the
kursaal.
When the offending officers reached
the duelling grc"~1s next day they
IOunQ TWO young -IleIQen,
the conventional, ;roc'. coats, and
armed with rapiers, ava ting them.
These. they were toll. wer~ Miss Lam
grishe's brothers, and they certainly
resembled that athletic young lady
greatly.
In the duel that resulted the insult
ing dragon was run through the neck
and disabled. 1t was not until the en-
counter had closed, and the opposing
parties returned to their quarters, that
the Germans seconds received the fol- |
lowing message:
"Sir-There is no Herr Langrishe. |
The person who punished your princi-
pal so justly this morning was the !
Fraulein May. daughter of the elderly |
gentleman assaulted by him so das-
tardly last night. The Fraulein |
Langrishe will feel great pleasure in /
meeting any or all of the wounded Of /
ficers regiment at swords points The /
fraulein also wishes it understood that |
she is a dead shot and that her sister, |
the Fraulein Beatrice Langrishe. who |
seconded her today, can likewise handle |
either rapier or pistol
So great was the ridicule resulting |
upon the defeat of the dragon bully
by a woman that that hero was forced
10 exchange into another regiment.