The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-26

IL SO0 Ai4o4SLSus y Ou COulQ SSL GlIU &c
bring to you a little oaken case of med
ais; one the Cross of the Legion of Hon
or given him by President Carnot, foI
what he did not say; another the French
white star for civic valor.
Where did you get this?" you would
ask.
You remember the Bazaar holocaust
Yes, where SO many women were
burned
Yes"
Did you rescue someone?''
This was conferred on me-" he would
answer, and quickly call your attention
to yet another medal
and this medal?" you would ask
at is nothing. The Dahorney campaign
medal. Every soldier in the French army
who went to Dahomey got such a medal
1t is nothing-made Of old cannon"
Were you in the Dahomey campaign -
"Oh, yes"
did you pass through Morocco and Al
giers?" you would ask, doubling
"Oh, yes. And did I ever tell you of
how the Sheik Al-Roun entertained US
He invited US to his village and he want
ed to entertain US in French fashion, and
with French dishes. And when we all
sat down in came the souD-and in what
do you suppose? In China wash bowls
And we had to eat and we could not
laugh and offend the old fellow"
Since he had been in Wichita the king
Of Italy had conferred on him another
medal for his researches into criminology.
1t was. as many of the others he had.
very beautiful. He wrote frequently for
an eastern law journal on criminology.
Besides this he exploited his theories in
communications in the Eagle and some of
these were republished in foreign Ian
guages. He was linguist of great abil-
ity, but he never went out of his way to
display this talent
He was present at the first Dreyfus
trial and believed that Russia had
bought the secrets sold in that connec-
ton He could show his discharge from
the French army. He was always talk
ing of going back to Paris.
But Paris and army experiences and
decorations of honor were all sooner or
later forgotten for his favorite subject
criminology and its concomitant theory
of degeneracy. This OVERRIDE all else.
One day he was sitting in the Eagle
office when a woman came in to com
plain Of an article The woman had quar-
relied with her husband. She stated that
she wanted nothing more to do with
her husband But she didn't want a di-
vorce. Simpson began to make mysteri-
Gus motions around his head
The woman caught his motion and turn
ed on him with irritation
What do you mean?' she asked sharp
L.
Simpson hesitated moment between
his enthusiasm and his manners, but only
for a moment, sand then he walked in
front Of the woman and said to the writer
of this in a stage whisper, Look at her
ear-its the ear of a degenerate"
The woman gave him whitening look
ard got up and left in high dudgeon,
with her hand to her ear.
Simpson was strange, but not strange
in his place, in some old European CAPT
tai where society elbows over to make
room for the dreamer, but strange here
where for every crumb you eat you must
give your drop of sweat.
Simpson was arrested yesterday morn
ing by Sheriff Simmons at the residence
Of Mrs. c. w. Mosher, 1851 Park Place.
where he has been rooming for about five
weeks. The charge was embezzlement
and the complainant is William II. Ran
som, a farmer who resides six miles
north of town. His arrest was not sur
prise as he appeared to rather expect it.
He was Immediately taken to the city
court for arraignment and turned over
to Tom Voss. deputy marshal of the city
court. While the court officials were
waiting for the attorneys Simpson said
he was feeling sick and asked permits
sion to go to the closet which was grant
ed. When Mr.. Voss returned with him
he had lurking suspicion that perhaps
the prisoner was armed and that he
might do something desperate at the
sight of Mr.. Ransom. He was searched
but no weapons were discovered. Shortly
he was returned to Sheriff
Simmons and he again wanted to go To
the closet. The sheriff conducted him
there and while waiting at the outside
of the door he heard the report Of a pis-
toll Mr.. Simmons quickly opened the
door and saw what had happened. A
smoking revolver cIinched in his right
hand and a wound IN his right temple
from which blood was gushing told the
tale. The ball took a slanting course and
came out about three inches above his
left ear, penetrating and paralyzing the
brain. Simpson was in a sitting posture
with his head leaning against the wall
The officers first impulse was that he
would shoot. not knowing that he was
unconscious. and he grabbed the revolver
II was a small 3S-c3libre derringer. double
and was evidently left there
when he made the first visit. as no wea-
pom was found upon him when searched.
Sheriff simmons gave the alarm and
Coroner NTcColIister. whose Office Is direct
ly across the hall. hearing the report
went to the closet. Under Sheriff SyI
Duncan came running down stairs and
an examination proved that he was stju
alive Drs. Fordyce and Jordan were
notified by telephone. as was also the
police ambulance. The doctors pro-
nounced the wound mortal and said he
could not live. The man was placed in
the ambulance and the driver ordered to
the hospital He was breathing heavily
and while en- route to the HOSPITAL he
raised his head. gasped heavily for breath
and fell hack on his cot dead
The body was taken 20 Dunbar's under
taking establishment. whore It was taken
charge of by Coroner McCollstsr-
In the afternoon the appointment Il Al
was applied for and J. L
Howard was named. The administra-3r
viii charge nothing for closing up the IS
tate and Probate Judge AIcCandless asa
very generously donated MS fees Al
n.nlstrator Howard requests that al
those having books and other property
belonging TO the deceased viii turn the