The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-17
PROTECTOR OF ROYALTY French Seeret Service
 Man Retnes. STORY OF HIS LONG CAREER Instances of Cumbersome Red
 Tape.
 
STORY OF HIS LONG CAREER
Americans Are Warned To Keep sharp Look Out For Highway Robbers On The Bois De
 BOularge.
BY A. A. L'AMOUREUx.

has retired. He Is 74, ana says tho'' having never had the slightest ac- cident or Incident to reproach himself with" he feels the day has come Tor him to end a career of uninterrupted success. lest any untoward happening, such as is always possible in Royal | journeys, mar it at It's close! with M. PaoIi in discreet proximity. every | Royal personages visit to France has always passed off without hitch. The story Is told that when the boys of Sipido fired at King Edward (then Prince of Wales) in the Nord Railway station at Brussels. the bullet luckily | imbedding itself in the cushions of | the carriage without touching the Prince. the latter said. with smile. | "Ah. if Paoli, had been there that pis- | tol would never have gone off. The | boy would have been caught before he had time to use it." That no sim cident" ever happened to a monarch while under M. Paolrs unobtrusive, but vfgilant care is the legitimate pride of the Special Commissary detached from the General Safety Department" to give him his official title.
 | Success was not attained without un- ceasins activity. For instance. M. | Paoli had to escort the King of Greece from Aix-les-B -Balns to Calais; the King of Spain from Kendaye, the Spanish frontier station. to the German from | tier; and the King of Belgians from the Belgian frontier to his villa on the Riviera, all in one week, and such flying excursions over the country. in a minimum of time were frequent. At 74 M. Paolf feels no longer quite equal to such duties. The journeys them | selves would have been nothing, but the eternal vigilance which is the price of the safety of Kings was wearing and If the Royal personages' suites | could sleep in their cars, M Paoli could not
 The protector of Kings could tell anecdotes for a week. but he keeps | most of them for his proposed memoirs besides those which he keeps to him. self, and he prefers to show his extra ordinary collection of orders, scarf pins. and watches. One of the latter was given to him by King Edward when he was Prince of Wales. Among the decorations which. he most prizes Is the Royal Victorian Order, which Queen Victoria. when she created 1t, sent to him personally, with an auto graph note. His autographs are in- numerable. and most of the Sovereigns over whom he has watched wrote to him a word of good wishes at Christ mas or the New Year. M Paoli has l escorted exotic as we'll as European potentates, and tells with enjoyment & story of the King of Siam, who when M. Paoli was presented to him as the official who was to watch over hIs safety, looked aghast at the slight and spare little old gentleman in a frock coat and exclaimed: Where are your weapons?"
 The Heroic Miner.
 A pathetic letter has reached Paris from Bentleyville. Pa. from the miner, ~s T@I II comrades out of he burning Courrieres mine to safety after thirteen days Neny upon his bed in hospital was given the Cross of the Legion of Honor set in brilliants. He has been obliged to pawn 1t now for $75 to send money home to his children. When he re- covered his health. Neny. who had been promised that his future should never trouble him. was given a bureau de tabac." in which. after the first excitement on the catastrophe had died down. he failed to make a living
 He gave 1t up and went to the United States. From Bentleyville he writes that $10 ina fortnight Is the utmost he can earn. He has been there year. and knows a little English now but he Is weary of existence and would end 1t. he writes. were it not for his children. Henry Neny Is an edu- cated man and clever one. It seems cruel shame that he should suffer poverty now after the terrible ordeal he underwent in the coal mine at Cour- rieres. where his courage undoubtedly saved thirteen lives besides his own. An extraordinary woman, whose real name is Jeanne Marguerite Privat. but who calls herself the "Comtesse d'AngIemont." has been tried and sen- | tenced for one case in 0 wonderful career of swindling at Montpelier i 'The Comesse" looks something like Mime. Therese Humbert She is A handsome SouthArner of forty-seven. and for the last three years has lived on the credulity of the good people of Montpelier and the neighborhood She arrived there In 1906 with two children. a nurse and a governess. and took rooms at the principal hotel for which she paid over $20 a day. She i made number of friends here. and she made many debts as well-so many | that when her creditors at last took action she was found to owe the proprietor of the Hotel Metropole a sum of $3.400. $500 to the cure of the church she attended. $1.600 to her | bookseller, and something like S2O,OOO to thirty other people. Now that she has been tried and sentenced for frauI. the "Comtesse d'Anglemont" proves to have done exactly the same thing on several other occasions. Traces of her under different names have been found in fifteen provincial towns in France. and she was known unfavorably in Russia.
 1 Example of Red Tape.
 An extraordinary case of legal red tape occurred the other day in Paris A man whose first offense is was was sentenced to years Imprison- ment for stealing a bicycle which be- | longej to an American. The owner Of the bicycle has gone back to America and did not appear to prosecute. obvious fate of the bicycle would seam monwealth. But French law has its peculiarities. The thief was asked to sign a paper asking for the restitution bicycle. which never belonged to him property. But still more absurd case well-known writer. Courteline. who into his house and made off with his ! The burglars were caught and the sil- police station M. Courteline asked for tor. that 1t is out of my power to re- been duly sentenced" Courteline and spoons" he said. 'T very much missary; the law Is formal But there la r(