The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-20
HEART BETRAYED THIEF
Violent Beating Told the Physicians
Which Woman Was Guilty

ambassador Mesnoy Neyton Khan Of
Persia, and incidentally physician pleni-
potentlary 10 the Shah. stood on the plat
form at tho Plelades club at the Lafay-
ctte Brevoort on Sunday night, covered
with glitterlng medals OF glory. and gave
some interesting experiences of his ca
reer as physician to that august per
sonage and other Perslans OF distinction.
II will say that I was about the most
popular physician In Persia" he began
because was so well versed In tho art,
or because l treated people for nothing
At any rate. my. services were pretty
nearly always In demand.
"of course. you know that men are not
allowed In the harems of the eminent
Persians as a general rule, but one day
| had an imperative command from a
potentate to hurry to his harem at once
and bring my listening tube along with
me.
''I grasped my listening tube; which, as
YOU know. Is the tube with which l test
the beatings OF the heart, and hurried
Upon my arrival l found in tho open
court. which gave upon tho apartments
OF goldfish. On one side of this pond was
ranged crowd OF weeping, signing,
moaning women. On tho other stood the
picturesque Persian oaths at tho women
At each separate string they moaned and
sighed still louder. until the atmosphere
reeked with their lamentations.
"He' kindly desisted when he caught
sight OF men and began TO explain
The Princess he said, has lost her
casket Of jewels. Ono of those women
nth from the first. beginning at the right
What 1 want you to do he continued.
is to listen to the heart Of each and
frlghten the guilty one into confessing."
II obediently took out my listening tube
and began at the first on my right. She
was beautiful girl. Her heart beat very
loudly, indeed but went on to the next
and tho next. until I came tc the fifth,
This was the gem OF the collection. l
couldn't help feeling sorry that / must
creaturel Tail, dark, splendid I could
scarcely listen to the beating OF her heart
for grief at the thought OF what must
do. Then, as stood back from her,
ready to say that her beart beat In such
a way she certainly must be the thief,
realized to my Joy that she was not the
fifth, but the fourth
well, the fifth was the verieet old hag
YOU ever laid eyes on. She was about 70.
She may have been older. or course she
from the looks of her. I approe ched her
Without regret or contrition You never
In all your life heard a heart boat In the
way hers was beating I thought It would
burst out OF her bodice. There was no
doubt in my mind that a woman who
could lose all control OF her heart beats
in that manner was thief. I stood off
and said imposingly: There is the thief"
"And she was. I had no sooner spoken
the words than she fell at my feet. Inn
and begged that he would be lenient with
her. That. In spite Of her age and ugli-
ness Tho poentate said with consider
able gentlenees that he would let her go
FREQ Of punishment-that is, rigorous pun
lshment1 not moro than fifty, or sixty
lashes-if she would deliver the casket
OF tho Princess into HIS hands, which she
fastened to do."-New York Press.