The Detroit times., 1908-08-06
c. WINTHROP SANDS
ROBBED AS He
LAY DYING
THIEF LOOTED MANGlED 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 were examined at W. X. Van
derbilts chateau not penny was
| found.
1t is not known how much money
he carried but IL Is supposed to be a
considerable sum. as Mr. Sands had a
number Of business appointments that
| day with the decorators and furnish
ers Of 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 to the little girl killed
by Elliott +. Shepard's high power
car.
Victims Of "Locomotor 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
1 Cfnrfani Furnished this uaak
marvellous chapter OF the mysteries
OF Paris His only daughter. whom
he has not seen for SO years. when
she was a few months old. is found
here married and happy. Cipriani.
whose residence is now principally
Paris, tells his life drama with con-
vincing simplicity:
Il was prescribed he says, by
Napoleon the Third in 1863 and fed
from Paris to London, where soon
met and married an italian COM
patriot. Adofa Rue. and we had a lit
tie daughter. Fulvia, born January %,
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 till
the amnesty OF 1880.
AT once 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 dis
/ tant relations OF my wife's, whom
/ 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.
"A few days ago received a letter
signed Jacques 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 overjoyed To read my mar
rage certificate and my daughters
| birth certificate that had been taken
from London with her, but had been
mislaid for years. What Is so mar
velous is that my daughter and son-in-
law had been living but few yards
! from me. Wely and | knew each 9TH
er's faces and had mutual acquaint-
ances. although we never spoke Till
he presented me to my lost daughter
as his wife. Wely is successful
painter and caricaturist.