Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-15
JEWEL ROBBERY
BY BOGUS PRINCE


Special Cabae9ran to Ths Star.
PARIS. October 1.-THE season at several
French watering places has been marked
by a remarkable series Of jewel robberies
from the person. the victims being mostly
French. English and American ladies' The
Paris police instituted q special investiga-
ton. and discovered that practically all the
robberies were committed by q man calling
himself Prince Tschilindro. OF Montenegro.
His modus operandi was to put up at the
| best hotels. and. after ingratiating himself
with the best-dressed ladies. to offer them
chloroformed bouquets. The victim on
smelling the flowers would become Ill. and
have to retire to her room. where. under
the pretext of rendering her assistance. tho
| prince" robbed her of her Jewels and
decamped.
Finally the police captured the man In
f1agrante delicto at the Grand Hotel. Paris
His victim this time was an American lady.
who had accepted from him a bouquet of
exotics, and subsequently retired to her
room in fainting condition. The prince.
who assisted her there, had just relieved
her of a valuable diamond bracelet when
the police appeared on the scene and
arrested him. They atterward discovered
that his real name Is David Ramskeien.
Russian Jew. aged thirty-six
Drugs also played prominent part In q
little luncheon which a business man offered
to a friend who had called at his office.
The insurance official was about to go
round to his fayorite restaurant when his
friend stopped him. and both became Of
the opinion that the meal would be more
comfortably enjoyed upstairs than outside:
So young man, who acted as kind OF
secretary, was given some money, and he
quickly returned with several appetizing
dishes, to which the two friends did ample
justice. Then both sank into prkound
stupor. from which they wakened some
late Thn}r rob ho6 hoon dryrUO Qd
the safe was open and gone was the secre-
tary with 81 200 and some title deeds. He
succeeded in crossing the frontier without
being caught. and yesterday the correc-
tional tribunal of the Seine sentenced him
by default to five years Imprisonment ana
ten years police supervision.
A woman has just been arrested carrying
in her arms a four-year-old child which
had been trained to snatch watches and
scarfpinS as its mother carried 1t through
the crowd The infant was seen to secure
two watches and seven pins In less than
half an hour.
M. Henri des Houx's remarkable League
of Catholics of France which tends
toward nothing short of an independent
Gall.can Catholic Church. under state
guarantee, has issued da determined proc
iamation. which declares boldly that the
Holy See has been circumvented by politi-
CAP factions. to which the care of souls
is Indifferent" What are described as half
German, half-Roman intrigues" are de-
nounced as being designed to interrupt, II
not TO suppress, public worship in France,
to turn the secular clergy out of French
parishes, to reduce the ancient Catholic
land of France to the level of missionar-
les country, in order to hand over to am
bilious and grasping religious orders q
| monopoly of private worship. which alone
Rome will recognize henceforth; and finally.
to convert the bishops of France into mere
apostolic Wears, such are sent to pro-
selytise savages." The league goes on to
| advocate the immediate formation Of as
tn, 1p II In 1nrr NJ
1905. which will claim possession of
churches and church property. and thereup-
on apply to the bishops that priests be ap-
| pointed. whom the associations will pay.
1 One Of the most popular music halls in
Paris has introduced a novel turn into Its
program. After Looping the Loop" 1.-THE
Whirlwind of Death and similar fantastic
entertainments. comes what Is pictureSQuely
described as the Living Crushed One"
| This sensation Is nothing else than a man
stretched on the stage allowing 40-horse
power motor car. weighing two tons and
carrying six passengers, to be driven over
self to this ordeal originally sang gay little
| finely developed man, who invariably arises
! smiling after the car has been driven quick
ly, slowly, and in all sorts of manners, over
his PROSTATE body He is stripped to the
waist and the spectators are assured that
there Is trick Notwithstanding
in word, to deceive the eye. The turn
has evoked quite a sensation among those
who have liking for such spectacles. and
1t Is a relief to have found one man who
does not object to being run over by a
motor car. and, moreover. seems to enjoy