The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-09-21
CAN T FIND HIM.
The Mysterious Disappearance
of a Freuch Parish Priest. A
LEAN HUNGRY HYENA
Has Bseu Unloosed to Smell Out the
Body of tue Priest Who Is Thought
to Have Been Mu DER
ed, Robbed and
Buried.

serious dNtpps arance ex ,ited ra e
interest tina. tina. Ct the Able Del
ar o, euro Of the little parish 0
, Ohatensy, near E smte France. /
ts assumed that foul n urder ha
be com nitted.
All the paraphnalia Of deteotiv
work, all the midnight sleuthing, al
no imaginative reasoning that mark
ID the unravelment of murder mystic
rics In the works II G ,bOriau, Sus ant
, &c Eigar Allen Poe have b en- exhausted
In connection with this al sir, and the
nCdern crime hu ters have now hi,
upon device ooside which the meth
cd. suggested b! those famous author
tties n crime pale into tameneSs anC
insign fcanoe-
a ltvo ny ma Of ble dosart-an ami
Caal expero in bunting for all dead
thinRb-has been employed T., a I'd tie
priests body.
Tue iitapp aranos Of She A ote Del
lruc vas rtainly a astonisAiu3 az
fair. l. G rode out Of his parish on 8
bicycle into the night and never oa I
>tck. He loft hardly trace of any
fhiDg that could point to the cause OF
liS disappearanoe
| The A ODE was an extrem ely popula.
man in his parish He el J ,yed goou
!noOine. He was In EXCELLENT haaith
I'd spirits. He had just been plan.
ning Il visit to his mother in Paria
There was no discovera rle raason wi y
ne shoulo have committed ruioi6e or
voluntarily run away.
He had, however, 1875 frsEcs ir
money on his pers IN when he disap
oeared, and the mos. obvious course is
to suppose that he was murdered for
lhe sake Of this money.
Whatever be the truth, it Ia at
present wrapped In mystery.
The Abba Delarue left the town O.!
E ampes at about 8 O'Clock In thu
.vening, riding his bicycle He wa
retu ming to his parish. AT FIVE min,
utcS past nine ne was VSeen rapidly
riding along the road by q looksmttll
wing at the farm Of LonRueto,se
H3 W. g seen by ne or two other per.
SONS just before this time, but ne, er
| sgain.
After his disappearance the polio.
pf IL ampes, q sleepy COUNTRY town,
showed great negligence In inyestigas-
,nR tile cage. Tnte fact, tCgather With
many other remarkable oircumstanceb
,rtused tho attention Of the P&fisiau
newspapers and they began to invest
;ate with Extraordinary enthu. iasm
and Ingenuity.
II o Matin was the first newspaper
to begin operations. Two member.
of itA staff went to the spot and spent
monay layishly In emplo. ing loosi
searohers.
The country whore the Able wa
.0st iB marked by some remarkabe G
physical formations. IL cent tains mar
shy ponds Of great extent aid alsC
srta5 badS Of lOuso sand klown as
"s&b)ieres.'
Both Sbe ponds ard the sand beds
you'd offer very favorable hiding
plaza for dead body. The aaud
could be turnei ovsr by hand until 8
nole s~ nl ;eutly dcep had bBeD made
to bury y body. and then the hole
could be filled in by the same means
and ,moothed over 40 that Ii would b.,
extremely diificuit to detect any dis
turbanc1 Of the surface.
On the other hsnd, there are the
n0nCs. TIE lorgest IL known as the
n sng des oulineaux. 1t Ia sur.
rounded by reeds that grow to twice
che height of q man, and II the Grim
inal could have carried the boo:
5hrCugh there without breaking thom
down extensively he might have dis
posed OF ID very tffecbively.
Tue Matin utferei y re ward Of | ,OO(
franc for its DIS overy and also On
Iagea I roe Of sixty beatUrs at ds,
wages to sea.ch the country for th,
oody. Tue titBt discovery they made
has the broad br!mmed hat OF tn,
priest, Whioh was found In field 0
he roadside, torn and soaked wiSl
mud
Then tho PAtrle of Paris entered
into the contest with D Hindu faki
named RAvah. This man Is skilled
In al the mysterious egoberio Learning
Of the O lent. He is reputed TO pos
5ess the gifts Of second sight and gro
phccy. He can peor into bhe future
and his yislon passes through mater
isl o. lsotS. Rsvah ran through th
Iooda and ovof the sand bede pick
. Ing up pieces Of earth and leaves an,
: smelling bnom. On the second da
:. mis- Intuition led him into wood /.
= u hollow unfrequented road leading b
/, tho Chateau de Valnoy.
H9r0 ho maue the first importan
. discovery OF the searcn-the D. lost
;, oiSycl3. IL 10 generally assumed tina
: She murderer had hidden IL .here al
ter killing him.
AT about this time many newspaI
.. ers appeared On the scene with occu
'' exports, among them being the Magr
Alyls, Maname FlaubarG, who, q
; though OF French birth, he's sper
a many years absorbng bne mysserl,
" Of the Orient, and Professor Deyas.
!, Then tbe Matin Thought OF an abs
:, lutely novel, II rather grewsom
:, method Of hunting down the corps
. 1t decidod to employ a hyona In ii
% search, and arranged with the famo,
- lion tanner pom to obtain the use
his largest and ugliest byena, nam,
Carlos. This animal 10 the mosb +
20 pnlsive and disgusting In existenc
le He lives exclusively upon Carrlon al
+ the dead body Of man has for him
n greater attraction than any 9th
re kind of food. The hyena lives In hol
and caves during the day time o,