Amador ledger., 1905-04-14
HOUNDING A MAN


CASTOR LIE Roy had been found guilty
Of embezzlement. A 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 saw
lngs, 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 to
prove him so, but for him to prove his
Innocence. They said to the cashier:
''You have had charge of the funds
In this store. A sum of money is miss
ing, and you cannot account for it. 1t
therefore follows that you embezzled
1t. 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 a slip somewhere,
d 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 q year and his reputation ruined
forever He did not think so when he
emerged. Strong in the consciousness
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 a recommendation,
and he soon secured employment else
where. Within a week the police ap-
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 will be encouraging
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
a police official appeared and insisted
that he be instantly discharged. He
was even threatened with arrest and
punishment for defying the law.
That 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 terror to the law. On reaching
the city he made for the haunts Of
vice, and inside of month the police
heard from him.
LIE Roy was LIE Roy no longer. He
was Jaritz. In two years he COM
mitted fifty robberies single handed.
Then he became the leader of q band,
and murder was added to robbery. It
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,
and during that time the killing of
fifteen policemen was laid at his door.
The value Of his plunder for the same
time was estimated at three quarters
Of a million dollars. Then the 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 under another
name and took house in the Rue Vint-
nor.
1t 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 en-
trance could be had to the second story
by way Of second old rookery and
the windows. On taking possession
Of the place Jaritz sawed the stairs in
two and propped them up in such
way that he could pull the prop away
with a rope. When the stairs went
crashing down into the cellar whoever
was on them at the time must meet
with terrible fall. After week he
sent a boy to give him away to the
police. The lad claimed to have had
his suspicion aroused and to have
watched the house for a week. He
was sure that it was Jaritz hiding
there. He told the police of the ap-
proach by the windows, and at 8
o'clock in the afternoon q detachment
of forty men suddenly surrounded the
place.
Ten Of them rushed into the neighbor-
Ing house to force the entrance. Jarttz
met them ana shot two and then re-
treated with words Of defiance. The
eight men rushed him back to the
stairs and down it to the landing.
There he stopped to hurl further de-
hance asfhem, and when they crowded
down upon him the prop was pulled
away, and the eight fell into the cellar.
Two were killed and the rest badly
injured.
7 am CASTOR lie Roy, the ex-cashier
and ex-convictl" called Jaritz after
them, and then he put the muzzle of
his revolver to his head and pulled the
trigger.
There were a few newspapers in
France that 1pg down and got at the
real truth of the tragedy and laid it