The daily Alaskan., 1905-06-22
ROUNDING A MAN

protested his innocence, and De offered to make the amount good from his saw mgs. but the police had got hold Of the matter and refused to let it drop The police of France more than any other country hold that a person who Is charged with an o0cnSc against the hw Is guilty. lt is not for the law to prove him so, but for him to prove his innocence. They said Co the cashier;
 "You have had charge Of the funds In this store. A sum or money Is miss ing. and you cannot account for it It therefore follows that you cmhezzlcd 1t. At any rate. you must prove in court that you did not"
 Neither the proprictorS of the store nor the cashiers friends believed him guilty. There was a slip somewhere a mistake: some one had Scized oppor- | tunity tO gobble on Co tho notes, but ! the police took him away aud contend | ed that he must prove that some one | guilty m order Co secure his own lib- l erty. The young man was sent Co priS- | on for a year and his reputation ruined | forever. He did not think SD when he emerged. Strong tn the consciousness of his innocence he returned to Paris | with the determination Co begin anew. The old firm could not take him back, | but they gave him a recommendation, | and he soon secured employment else where. Within week the police ap- peared and said to his employer:
 You have a map iu your employ who could not prove his innocence of a theft. You must discharge him. lf you do not you will hc Cucouyagius ! crime"
 Young Le Roy was discharSCd. He wandercd out into thc country and secured employment on tacm, The work was hard and Che pay pSor, but he was living an honest life when a police official appeared and insisted that he bc instantly diSCh0rced Hc was even threatened with arrest and punishment for dctyug the law. | That was the end The cN.CouviCt headed for Paris with murder iO his heart In halt an hour his mind bad been made Co turn criminal and hc, come a terror tc the law. on reaching l the city he made for Che h0uut7 of viCe, and inside Of a month tno police heard from him.
 Le Roy was Ic Roy mo longer He was Jaritz In two years hc com. mittcd fifty robhcricS single blUlcl | Then he became the leader ot a hud, and murder was adlCd tN robbery li was always the police who vcro the victims In one year ten Paris po.iCc- men were stabbed Co death. No ono l suspected that Jaritz was the eN. cashier under another name, and no one could account for this sing Ilar hatred of the police. Tho best de teCtive talent in the country was em ploycd to hunt the man down, bUt be escaped every snare laid for him. As fast as a member Of his band was taken he took on another recruit Thcy were to assist In the rohbcrics, but the Killing was reserved for his own hand.
 Jsritz ran a career oC four years and during that time the killing ot fifteen policemen was laid at his door The value Of his plunder for the same time was estimated at thrCC-Quarters Of a million dollars. Then the mans logic forced him Co realize that tho end could not much longer bc delayed Half a hundred detectives were look. ing for him, and the rewards offered for his apprehension footed up over SSO,OOO. Some Of his band were COT. tain Co betray him Co secure this re ward. When he had m ldc up his mind what Co do he distributed his property among the hospitals under another name and took a house In the Rue Nlnt. nor.
 It was a tumble down house In a wretched street and just where the police would look to find him. There was first and second floor. and GU. trance could be had Co the second story by way of a second old rookcry and the windows. On taking possession Of the place Jaritz sawed the stairs in two and proppcd them up m such a way that he could pun thC prop away with a rope When the >tairs went crashing down into the cellar whoever was on them at thc time nuzS nlcSt with terrible fan After a week be sent boy Co give him away Co tue police. The lad claimed Co have had his suspicion aroused aud to have watched the house for a week. nc was sure that U was Jaritz hiding there. He told the police Of She a,- proach by the windows, and at 8 o'clock In the afternoon a detachment Of forty men suddenly surrounded the ! place.
 Ten of them rushed into the ncichhor. ing house to force tae entrance. Jaritz met them and shot two and then re- treated with words of deharec. The eight men rushed him back Co the stairs and down it to the landing. There be stopped to burl nsrther de. 0ance at them, and when they 1rowded down upon him the prop was pulled away, and the eight fell into the cellar. N