Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-01

court protesting that he would nut
q bHdct ,hF1uch BIS brain,
TIE history OF Mays early career
I is quito aR romantic aH anything IN his
books. His orisin was obscure. When a
Z school hoy hc stole a purse. and
! spent eight months In Jail 4 FEW
! years later he took 10 the road and
| properoi 90 highly that he entered
! INTO partnership With the army desor-
] Ter. Louis krucEol. Srucgei had
| Dluudcred hts regiments cash box and
| with this capital ne ana May laid in
/ stock 81 ammunition and preserved
I food, and repaired To a vast cave In
| the Waldcnburg domain. They hid the
mouth OF the cave sl<ilfully with moss:
ana gathered followers For more
| than year the gang terrorized the
country side, specializing In robbing
people VINO were returning from
market laden with cash. Not until the
two towns of Hohcnstein and Ernsthal
had taken action In vain did the CEN
trail Dresden authorities Intervene
They sent a large body Of troops which
made n Gordon round the wood. The
gang was securely trapped. But not so
tfclr leaders The future millionaire
philanthropist remembered that In his
cave Has the uniform and equipment
he had stripped from a geudarmc. lie
donned ihe uniform himself, hanlcud-
kruegel securely, and told him Go |
walk in advance Then with his piss
WI iNllANfN at hNHfEtA = ltiht nc |
marched the pretended captive trium- !
phantly towards the Gordon. Crying TO |
the officer IN command, i've caught |
the ringleadcr." he marched with |
Kruegel to safety. The rest OF the gang
fell into tho aoldiers' hands.
ESCAPED IN THEIR SHIRTS.
Mays next adventures were also
made In company with Kruegel Again
he ullnnNf franng1 fHNyp haaNftlg |
armed gendarmes rode up to the inn
where tho pair were In bed The gem
darmes made dash into the house.
The robbers waited until their hunters
were half way upstairs and then in
their shirts dropped from the window |
on the the sendarmes' horses, and fol-
lowed by futile rain OF bullets, made
on into the forest Kruegel shortly |
Afterwards was captured and died Of
fever in jail But May was destined to
higher things Though he spent sew
aral more terms in jail, his wits were
IN no way impaired by his sufferings;
and he gathered much useful ex-
Derience which later made him a star
IF German literature and pillar of
he Saxon church.
The fugitive robber May suddenly
disappeared. The life OF "A Saxon
policeman lost half its charm. About
our years after the Disappearance.
handsome. well-bred man OF nearly
middle age appeared In Dresden, and
wrote such delightful tales of adj
'enture In local newspapers that big | {
~ blishers urged him to favor them J
With novels. DIR. May" as he called I
himself, agreed His brilliant pictures 6
# life In Central Africa and Mon !
ola fascinated children; and had /
nyone affirmed that the author had !
ever been outside Saxony In his life n
e would have been called liar. v
fascinating was Herr A
lays edifying Adventures OF True | {
In which he laid down the a
IOral precept that a really Christian | a
ian. though tortured and kept I'm jail
pr years must never repine. for all
ould come right in the end Herr
lay Was really writing here from Is
fe This book. and others which fol- a
wed, brought the ex-bandit chief ! Il
Irge sums he turned religious; be- n
anne prominent figure in tho Catho-
Q church of Ss&ony; and wrote full | C
linant tracts for the conversion OF the
eathen. He grew daily richer in the
ealth of this world and the next, and D
rev more respected as citizen, more .
enign in manner and more venerable
looks. =.
IN AN ODOR OF SANCTITY. c
He went into business. as he said !,
make money TO spend on good