The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
YOUNG GIRL zDuPED.
Paul Pons Entices Miss Emily Gui1lot Into
saloon Under the Pretense that
the Place Was a Hotel


Saloon Under the Pretense that
the Place Was a Hotel.
Paul Pons, local barber, is in Jail
as result of having enticed Miss
Emily Guillot into the First and Last
Chance saloon under the pretense that
the place was a hotel. Miss Guillot is
daughter Of Paulip Guillot, car
penter of Marksville, Avoyelles par
ish, and is about Is years Of age. She
came to Donaldsonville Sunday eve
ming in search of cousin who is said
to have been employed by the owners
Of the Ferris wheel which visited this
town during the holidays with the
Talbot Whitney Carnival Company.
The train upon which Miss Guillot ar
rived was over three hours late and
did not pull into Donaldsonville until
$50 O'Clock Sunday evening. When
the young lady entered the depot she
accosted the first person the saw, who
happened to be Pons, and asked to be
directed to hotel. sPons took the girl
to the First and Last Chance saloon,
which is just opposite the T. and P.
depot, and represented to her that the
place was hotel. At the saloon Pons
and. another man conducted Miss Gull
lot into a private room and urged her
to take drink, but she steadfastly
declined and repeatedly asked the men
if they were sure the place was d hotel.
In the meantime prominent citizen
who had seen Pons take Miss Guillot
into the saloon and who suspected that
something was wrong, notified Officer
Sehaff Of the occurrence and the po-
liceman proceeded to the First and
Last Chance, where he found Miss
Guillot in the room with the two men.
Mr.. Sehaf asked the girl if she knew
where she was and she answered in the
negative, stating that she had been
told that the place was hotel but
that it did not look like one. The Of
fcer conveyed the girl to the home of
Chief of Police Variant, who directed
that she be taken to the Nichols Hotel
pending an investigation. Pons was
arrested Monday afternoon by Officer
Schaf and was taken to the Nichols
Hotel, where Miss Guillot positively
identified him as the man who had en-
tieeG her into the saloon the evening
before. The prisoner was arraigned
before Judge Edmund Maurin, but as
the case was beyond the Jurisdiction
Of that official, Pons was remanded to
jailto await a preliminary examination
before District Judge Paul Leche. Miss
Guillot returned to her home in Marks
vile on the, 11:22 T. and P. train
Thursday forenoon, in company with
her cousin, DR.. Walter Couvillon, a
practicing physician OF Marksville,
who had gone to New Orleans Sunday
evening and was en- route home. The
young.lady states that apartfrom being
urged to drink, no indignity was Of
fered to her while she was in the sa-
loon, but there is no telling what
might have happened il Officer Schaff
had not appeared on the scene at the
moment he did. Miss Guillot is of
French descent and speaks English in
a battling and broken manner. She is
not at all versed in the ways of the
world and being a perfect stranger
here was easily duped by Pons into be-
lieying that the saloon was really a
hotel. Her family is very poor and
her idea in coming to Donaldsonville
was to try and secure employment with
the street fair people under whom her
cousin is working. Neither she nor
her family were aware that the carni-
val organization had left here over
month ago.