Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-17
DAILY SHORT STORY
BOUNDING A MAN.


of embezzIement- y sum of money
amounting to about 5000 was missing
and could not be accounted for. he
protested his Innocence. and he offered
TO make the amount good from his say
ings, 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 OffenSe against the
law is guilty 1t is not for the law &c
prove him SO. but for him TO prove his
innocence. They said to the cashier:
You have had charge of tie funds
in this store \ sum of money is miss
ing. and you cannot account for ii. II
therefore follows that you eInbezzled
it. At any rate. you must prove in
court that you did not
Neither the proprietors of the store
nor the cashiers friends believed him
guilty. There was n slip somewhere,
a mistake; some one had seized oppOr
tunity TO gobble on to the notes, but
the police took him away and contend
ed that he must prove that some one
guilty in order to secure his own lib
erty The young man was sent TO pris-
on for Il year and his reputation ruined
forever. He did not think so when he
emerged Strong in the consc business
of his innocence. he returned to Paris
with the determination to begin anew.
The old firm could not take him back,
but they gave him Il recommendation,
and he soon secured employment else
where. Within a week the police APP
peared and said to his employer:
You have a man in your employ who
could not prove his innocence of q
theft You must discharge him. If
You do not you viii be encoura ginG
crime
Young lie Roy was discharged.
He wandered out into the country
and secured employment on farm.
The work was hard and the pay poor,
but he was living an honest life when
n police official appeared and insisted
that he be instantly discharged. He
was even threatened with arrest and
punishment for defying the law.
Ahat was the end. The ex-convict
headed for Paris with murder in his
heart. In half an hour his mind had
been made to turn criminal and be-
come Il terror TO the law. On reaching
the city he made for the haunts of
vice, and inside of a month the police
heard from him.
lie Roy was lie Roy no longer. He
was Jaritz. In two years he COM
mitted Fifty robberles single handed.
Then he became the leader Of 4 band.
and murder was added to robbery. II
was always the police who were the
victims. In one year ten Paris police
men were stabbed to death. No one
suspected that Jaritz was the ex-
cashier under another name, and no
one could account for this singular
hatred of the police. The best de
tective talent in the country was en-
ployed to hunt the man down, but he
escaped every snare laid for him. As
fast as a member of his band was
taken he took on another recruit. They
were to assist in the robberies, but
the killing was reserved for his own
hand.
JaritZ ran a career Of four years.
ana during that time the killing Of
fifteen policemen was laid at his door
The value Of his plumber for the same
time was estimated at three-Quarters
of million dollars. Then he mans
logic forced him to realize that the
end could not much longer be delayed
Half a hundred detectives were look
Ing for him, and the rewards offered
for his apprehension footed up over
$4,000. Some of his band were GER
tain to betray him to secure this re-
ward. When he had made up his mind
what to do he distributed his property
among the hospitals uhder another
name and took Il house in the Rue Vint-
nor.
1t was Il tumble down house in
wretehed streetCpnd Just where the
police would look TO find him. There
was a first and second floor, and en-
trance could be had to the second story
by way Of Il second old rookeTy ana
the windows. On taking possession
of the place Jaritz sawed the stairs IN
two AMI propped them up in such
way that lie could pull The prop away
with Il rope. When the stairs went
crashing down into the cellar whoever
WAS on them At the time must meet
with 4 terrible fall. After week he
Stdt IL hoy 10 give MN away 10 the
police. The lad claimed TO have had
his suspicion aroused and to have
watched the house for 4 week lie
was sure that it was Jaritz hiding
there. He told the police of the ap-
proIch by the windows, and AT >
O'Clock in the afternoon a detachment
OF forty men suddenly surrounded the
place.
Ten of them rushed into the neicllbor-
ing house 10 force the entrance. Jar,tz
met them and shot two and then re
treated with words Of defiance. The
eight men rushed him back II the
stairs and down it TO the landing.
There he stopped 10 lIurl further de-
dau"c ut them, and when they crowded
down upon him the prop WAS pulled
away. ana the eight fell into tie collar.
Two Were killed ma The rest badly
injured.
I am CASTOR lie Roy. the ex-cashler
and ex-convic;.' called Jaritz after
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