The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

sail gang as the latter. on his arrival in London from Walsaii, was on his way
 to the Autonomie club.
 What have you in that bottle2"
 asked Superintendent Melville; and on
 the man refusing to tell he ran him into
 the nearest police station, searched him,
 and discovered that the bottle contained
 chloroform. Following this new clue, Superintendent Melville found that the anarchists of the Autonomie club had devised a terrible scheme for the sole
 purpose of obtaining money for their
 murderous propaganda and spreading far and wide the gentle doctrines of an-
 archisIn.
 Their scheme was to keep observation
 upon members Of the aristocratic clubs.
 to shadow" them as they left late at
 night, and at the first opportunity to
 ehloroform and rob them. Pini and
 DuvaI had carried out a long series of I chloroform robberies on the continent. the proceeds of which had been consci-
 entiously devoted to the same purpose. Pini is now in prison in New Caledonia. The man arrested in the street by MT. Melville was sentenced to five years im-
 prisonment by Mir. Justice Hawkins at
 Stafford Asszes.
 This was but part of an interna- tional scheme by which the leaders hoped to kill all the crowned heads of Europe.
 The frustrating of the chloreform scheme and the smashing of the Autono- mic club made MT. Melville the most hated man in England in anarchistic eyes. Threats poured in wholesale. i Letters arrived at Scotland Yard prom 1 isng the most terrible vengeance upon 1 Mir. Melville If he did not cease to watch
 the anarchists. One anarchist with a loaded revolver in his breast-pocket
 succeeded in penetrating the strait cor riders of Scotland Yard and getting into superintendent Melville's own room. 1 He began to talg to Mir. Melville quite
 plausibly, but the trained eye of the de-
 tective caught the gllnt of shining pis- tol-barrel behind the edge of the anar- chist's coat. Quick as lightning he
 snatched the weapon, coolly informed
 the visitor that he had nothing more to say to him, and then flung him out into 1 the passage.
 ITO handcuff and imprison him." re- marked Mir. Melville once to an inti-
 mate friend, would have been to have made him martyr, to have given him I just what he lived for, chance to ! shine as the man who for the cause had bearded Melville in his den. Pub ' licity and the martyrs halo are the | breath of the anarchists nostrils. By treating him with contempt and igtlo- miniously throwing him out deprived him of the halo.'
 MT. Melville had a narrow escape of
 death at Poplar in 1893. when Francois
 tried to shoot him to avoid arrest. But 1 the powerful, athletic detective was too quick for the criminal. and pinned him
 down and took away his weapon.
 A sharp struggle at Victoria station
 occurred when MT. Melville left his wife's side, went up to the French bomb thrower, Meunier, and started to I put him under arrest Meunier drew
 his fully loaded revolver, but the detec- tive showed that. he had muscle as we'll
 as brains. and gripped the anarchists
 arm in time. There was an up and down struggle, Meunier was secured, and in addition to the cartridges in the
 revolver, MT. Melville found large
 stock of ball cartridges in his captive's pockets. MT. Melville knows his "seainy'' Lon
 don as well as any man, but he knows his "searny'' Paris well, too. One Of the narrowest escapes he ever had occurred l there. In company with a French de-
 tective Mir Melville walked down the
 narrow streets of the Montmartre and
 entered an anarchist den. The moment
 he entered, some Of the anarchists re-
 cognized him, There was a yell of an- l ger, q flash. and a bullet took the ash i off Mir. Melville's cigar. 1 '0h," he observed, calmly, II was, not
 aware that you objected to smoking ,''
 and thereupon arrested a man who had
 baffied the officers of justice for months. i-London Mail.