The Detroit times., 1908-08-05
C. WINTHROP SANDS
ROBBED AS He
LAY DYING
THIEF LOOTED MANoLED BODY
OF JEWELRY AND EMPTiED
POCKETS OF EVERY CENT
WAR ON CRIMINAL SPEED.
BY VANCE THOMPSON

PARIS. Aug. while Winthrop
Sands lay dying beside his wrecked
automobile and before rescuers came
a thief robbed him of his jewelry.
watch. pocketbook and even the loose
change In his pockets. When his
clothes We're examined at w. X. Van
derbilts chateau not penny was
found.
II is not known how much money
he carried, but II is supposed TO be a
considerable sum, as Mr.. Sands had
number OF business appointments that
DAY with the decorators and furnish
ers or his new house In the Avenue
Du Bots de Boulogne and was also
In the habit OF carrying fairly large
sums
The wild ride to death of the un-
fortunate Sands has called forth a
unanimous protest against public
roads being used by speeders Henri
Rochefort points out that two other
members OF the Vanderbilt family
have paid their tribute to what he
calls the 'locomotor mania" He re-
fers especially 10 the little girl killed
by Elliott +. Shepard's high power
car.
Victims Of "Lccomotor Mania"
Rochefort mentions among other
speed maniacs who have had similar
fatal adventures Baron Cahen d An
vers. Baron Bleichroder, and demands
governmental action. though he be-
lieves the mania Is one which should
be studied by physicians, the cases
being pathological.
Italy's veteran Revolutionary. Anil
care Cipriani, has furnished this week
a marvellous chapter of the mysteries
OF Paris. His only daughter. whom
he has not seen for SO years, when
she was few months old, is found
here married and happy Cipriani,
whose residence is now principally
Paris, tells his life drama with con-
vincing simplicity;
II was prescribed" he says. by
Napoleon the Third in 1869 and fled
from Paris TO London. where | soon
met and married an Italian COM
patriot. Adofa Rue, and we had lit
tie daughter, Fulvia. born January 70,
1870. On Sept. We heard that a
Republic was proclaimed In France
and my wife asked me, When do you
start?' | went at once and Joined my
friends In Paris in the midst OF the
Commune. But the Commune was
vanquished and |, with others, was
sentenced TO perpetual Punishment TO
New Caledonia. where | remained I'LL
the amnesty of 1880.
AT once I returned to London TO
seek my wife and daughter, but what
terrible disappointment awaited
me, MY wife was dead and little Full
via had disappeared. | could only
learn that she had been sent TO dls-
tant relations of my wife's. whom l
had never met Years passed In a
vain search, and ! persuaded myself
long ago that | would take my GRIEF
with me to the grave.
Found Daughter and a New Son. 4,
"A few days ago | received a letter
signed Jaques Wely' from man Nv
ing In the suburbs of Paris asking a
rendezvous, as he had come in pos
session of convincing proofs that Mad
anne Wely was my daughter. | went
and was oyerjoyed to read my mar
rage certificate and my daughter b
birth certificate that had been taken
from London with her, but had been
mislaid for years. What is SO mar
yelous Is that my daughter and son-ln-
law had been living but few YARDS
from me. Wely and | knew each oth-
ers faces and had mutual acquaint-
ances. although we never spoke WI
he presented me TO my lost daughter
as his wife. Wely Is successiui
painter and caricaturist.