The Washington times., 1910-01-31
Lynchings Attempted In
Reign of Crime When
Thieves Are Caught
CRISIS IS PASSED;
RIVER RECEDING
With 100000 Sill Homeless
Situation Remains
Acute.

PARIS, Jan. 3f.-A reign Of
crime and pillage, mstigated BY
thieves and Apachss. Is sweeping the
tIood-deva1ated sections Of Paris
and its suburbs today, despite the
vigilance OF the thousands Of soldiers
and police
The Increasing depredadons.
which when first mentioned IN press
/ dispatches. were denied by The gov
+ eminent authorities, have 50 euagad
tine people that they are taking the
law in theiT own hands and are even
/ fighting with the authorities who al
/ tempt to save the hooters from the
/ peoples wrath.
PIRATES ROUGHLY HANDLED
At AIfortviIle today a boat con
( tanning four Apaches was chased by
boat load Of marines. A rsvoIver
/ fire was kept up between the two
crews, the IO0ters- boat finally being
sunk by the fire Of the marines.
+ Two Of the robbers were drowned.
( one was captured and Iynched. and
. the fourth escaped
Another boat manned by Two pi-
rates was captured by a police boat
/ The lynchiug of the pirates was
I narrowly prevented by tHa police.
s thief arrested at Tvry attempted
+ 10 sink the boat Of his captors The
/ latter tied a rope % the robber.
threw him overheard, and dragged
him through the icy waters for
thTee-quarcers Of an hour The nan
T was so chilled when finally taken
! from the water that it is believed
I re VIII die
Police Prevent Lynchiug.
/ An attempt 20 lynch q Ioo5sr here IN
F Paris vas prevented by the arrival OF
the police, who cut the robber down
T fust an time 70 save his Ufe- The acr
( Of the police so enraged the people that
they turned On the officers and fought
a pitched battle with them
Eight armed robbers took refuge IN
a deserted hotel and for more than Al
/ hour held at bay tEs mob that sought
their lives. The police finally gained
/ entrance 10 the building and overp0we--
/ ed the robbers
At IVY a robber held or q toat-,oaa
/ OF police 1y ti0UrisliuE a dirk HIS boat
I was nual-y overturned b. means OF q
/ pike and the rOooer vas caught
/ Eighty dollars and 2 large amount OF
[ leFyeIrE- were found on him
/ Another f-ht between an Apache IN
! q boat and policemen occurred az Issv-
/ Both boats were sunk. but the u0bbeC
Firemen and Apachez fought a bat
/ tie at PsrTeuZs In which one fireman
{ captured ana sent to the police station
I They were found loOtinE a villa
. The villas aE Saint Denis have suffer
{ ed greatly from iOOters, while IN the
/ BOis de NinCenues 1t is worth q Citi-
Zens life % venture from his home
after darkness
! VIII Shoot on Sight
I Scores of fights have occurred and Il
+ Is probable the police and soldiers VII
I be ordered TO shoot on sight hereafte-.
rather than TO attempt 20 arrest TIE
offenders
ChsreDton Is overrgs with thieves. and
I the people are arminC themselves. as
the authorities have proved Empo-eut 10
check the IauIessuess
La Patrie makes another attack on
President Esliieres today for what Is
termed his nigEarGly contribution 90
Jne relfeL fund II compares FaIfieres
SIfL OF $3.50 with those Of SrfHs9 from
the King Of italy. S7.0HF from the Gar.
f----Irf r .-F
A7-H' from the Queen Of England $3.50
from the HSiuce Of We les $4,000 from
eE-PreSfednC L0uhCr- $4,000 from lTue
LgEhet- and $500 from n Louher-S son
The President is held 10 TO the Sc
TereST criticism and ridicuIe
Frank Gould sent his check for S5.110
70 President F'aIIieres today.
With ao.G00 actually homeless N Paris
and the suburban towns and s01.0o0 with
Iout employment with hundreds sim
I fimpeHIe6 by the food and acute dis
tress on every hand, the governments
announced today thal it mas the SIT
uatiou well IN hand"
This statement means no more than
that the crisis from the food itself has
been passed and that if everything goes
well and none Of the threatened danger
materiaEzes. THE city IS fn n position
slowly TO recover from its terrible
plight
LinEers Like Evil Spirit.
The Seine IS ree-5inz, but or1v "a tie
2 rate - half an inch al hour Tie sta-e
Tat >rni5uiclt NJ the Po1t d-Atlzseriitz
was . feet ana Q Iucaes- AZ 3 O'Clock
the STAGE was q fee} and inches TIE
retreas OF the Seine IS Ike that c-
some sslI snirit vhirh seeks TO ra}
+ IN tf,e- scene ct its destrat-tioH az Ieu~
as possihle.