Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
Frequents Cafes and offers to Buy
Head Adornment
JAYS WANT TO MAKE MATTRESS"
Paris Music Hall Artists in Hobble
Skirt Race.
POLICE NAB GANG OF BURGLARS
Ancient Swindle IL Being Revived In
Connection with the Imperial
French JeweIs-MnrriRRe In
Pairs "A Fad.
BY PAUL vILLIERs.

BY PAUL VILLIERS.
PARIS. oct 1-(Specal to The Bee)-
The city is, i'm sense undergoing mild
reign of terror because of the aspirations
OF Monsieur Jack the Clipper, whose mania
is robbing pretty young women and girls
of their tresses. He is said to be an Eng
lishman of wealth. He has been here for
months and he seems to be well supplied
with money. Hundreds of women have
seen him and many have suffered at his
hands, but he has managed to dodge the
police most successfully.
The man has frequented the cafes of
Montmartre and offered women he ell
countered large sums OF money IL they
would sell him their hair. When asked
what he proposed to do with II he replied
that it was for mattress. II woman
refused to sell her hair he asked her to
dine with him, and after having given her
a narcotic in wine cut off her hair while
she was unconscious. That is the story
told by a number of women and there is
good reason for crediting it,
HobbIe skirt Races.
The commonplace sack race was super
seeded by a "hobble skirt race at the an
nual sports of the Paris Music hall artists,
which took place in behalf Of the music
hall pensions fund. There was wild hilar-
ity at the attempts OF the young women
to cover the 200 yards of the course. The
winner was Mile Ymer. This race was
followed by a similar one run by the
artistes Of the Moulin Rouge in the eX-
aggeratedly "hobbled" skirts in which they
appear in a revue at that establish
ment. The winner, Mile. sylvia, succeeded
in covering the course in Loss.
.NobIe" Burglars Captured.
A gang of noble" burglars who have
made several large hauls have just fallen
into the hands of the police. Their last
outrage was a raid on the Chateau de la
Rochecantin, in the Marne-et-Loire. The
chateau is occupied by the Comtesse de
la Morinere de la Rochecantin, who was
reused in the morning by noises in the
adjoining room The countess entered
the room, but before she could give the
alarm one OF the burglars placed his
hand on her mouth, and throwing her
gagged and bound her. She made a des-
perate effort to shout out, but the burg
lar etfectually prevented her.
Then the thieves explored the chateau
at leisure. Ferreting out the place where
! the countess kept her securities, they
made off with bearer share certificates
worth E4,S00. The subsequent arrest OF
| three men and a woman in a wood al
! Magonfy reads very much like a Robin
| Hood romance.
Concerning the crime the robbers said
| that two of their number, with masks
| over their faces, entered at night, whilst
the leader kept watch outside.
Fine Old SwIndIe Active.
A venerable swindle, almost as old as
the gold brick" fraud, is being revived
In connection with the imperial Frencl
1 jewels supposed to have been taken from
the Tuileries by the Empress Eugeni,
when she fled from the city on Septem
Der IA, 1870 These jewels, of the valu,
of f266,OOO, were supposed TO have beef
entrusted TO a special envoy, Manue
Peril. A French newspaper received no
long ago a photograph of an inventor!
Of jewels, with documents describing
their hiding place, from Madrid. Thes
documents were submitted to Eugeniei
secretary, Franceschini Pietri. "Nearl!
forty years ago." he said. documents lik
this began to reach me. Recently sucl
attempts at fraud have been few and ia
4 between, but 1 still hear Of them &C
casionally"
Getting Married In Paris.
Marriage is a most serious proposition 4
this country. A citizen of this city VIII
recently left the military service write
to a newspaper saying he had unsuccess
fully been trying to get married for thre
years. French marriage law is very Wig
orous. II the prospective bridegroom ha
not lived more than six months at his ad
dress, he must get a certificate signed b
the landlord and concierge of every hous
where he has lived previously, till he &c
back to where he did live for six months
Birth certificates are required, and also tn
t written consent of parents. As no pape
must bear a date more than two month";
t old. 1t happens that the marriage must b
) postponed to get the papers renewed. TIL
man who has been foiled for three year
once succeeded in getting all his paper
correct, when he was called up for m
periodical term of military service. H
says he will go TO the United States IL i
is further interrupted.
"OrderIy for the Emperor"
Not long since. the state manager
, local insurance company was decorate
with the Legion OF Honour, and the clerk
r In honor OF the event presented to him
q piece of plate, with their cards attache
. The manager was amused by the card
the office boy" an old soldier from Il
invalides. who was employed to open Il
, office doors. Under the mans name wa
[ the title. The Emporor's Orderly"
4 Not understanding this the manager sci
: for the old soldier
y "ot what emperor arc you an orderl
= and how?" he asked.
p II am the orderly OF THE Emperor" /
70 said, Napoleon, lie Petit Caporal"
But he is dead" said the puzzled mai
$ aver.
a Il am his orderly. I dust his tomb Z,
him." said the old soldier, with dignity.