The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-13

Paris, May 13-The Partisan sensa-
ton Of the hour is the alleged abdue-
ton Of the celebrated writer, "Gyp."
whose real name is Comtesse Marteu
de MirabeaU, a descendant of the rev.
olutionary Mirabeau. She was found
early on Sunday morning wandering
about Pont de Bercy. Her clothes were
torn and her face scratched, and appar-
emily she did not know where she was
The comtesse. told the police that she
had been taken away in a carriage by
three men to an unknown chateau and
locked in a room, from which she sue
ceeded in escaping with great diff
Guilty. The police believe she is the
victim of a hallucination.
The cOmtesse when found by the po-
lice asked where she was, and being
told, requested that she be driven to
the house OF friend. Before comply
ing with her request. however, the po-
lice took her before the police commits
slary, to whom she made an extraor-
binary declaration. She said:
ION Saturday evening about Q O'clock
l was being driven to a public meet
ing in the Rue del Sea, organized in
favor Of the candidature Of Rene Le-
cointe. At the corner Of that street and
Rue Sante the carriage was stopped.
owing TO road improv, q ut, and a man
appeared and asked me if I really was
'Gyp.'
Head in a Sack
"On receiving an affirmative answer
he said that Mr. Barillier. the new
councillor for the Rochechouart quarter
awaited me few steps away, and that
he had an important communication to
make. l got out of my carriage, fol-
/ lowing the man, and walked about
twenty steps down the Rue d'Alysea.
Suddenly my head was covered with
a sack. felt myself lifted S.nd carried
to a closed carriage, which drove off
at full speed. After a long journey the
vehicle stopped and the sack was re-
moved Three men suCI FUNDED me We
We're in the open country before a large
g1lden gateway, through which we
passed. We penetrated an immense
park reaching the chateau, which. in
my opinion, must be situated at about
800 metres altitude.
THE men did not speak, but they
took me to the first floor and locked me
| in room containing a bed As soon
as I was alone I opened the window
and scrutinized the country. Beneath
the chateau flowed a river and at some
distance away was railway viaduct,
L resolved TO fee. I made a cord OF the
bedclothes and let myself down into
space. The cord being too short I let
myself fall into the mattress. which
previously I had thrown out Of the
window. I injured my knee and tore
my dress. I crossed the park quickly
as possible and wandered into unknown
parts Of the suburbs Of Paris"
Police Are Doubtful.
The prefecture of police Immediately
opened an inquiry on receiving the
commissary's declaration OF the COM
Jesse. She gave an approximate de-
scription Of the three men, but since
her first statement she has told a vary
ing story, and this leads the authori-
ties to believe she is under a delusion.
Moreover, the cabman who is said to
have driven her to the Rue d'AIysea
cannot be found, and no carriage was
seen to stop near that street at any
time during Saturday evening.
Nevertheless, IL is none the less GER
/ tain that "Gyp" was found wandering
! II the neighbOrhood Of the Bercy bond
ing warehouses with her leg bruised
and her face badly scratched.
The nationalist and the anti-Semitic
press endeaVor to make political CAPT.
tai out Of the "Gyp" abduction, in view
OF today's elections by accusing her
( opponents Of the crime. The liberal
Parole prints an anarchist poster Of a
threatening nature, in which the COM
tesse's name is mentioned.