The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-10


sudden death
/ [tl&4 from either dis
V1 a1 ease, wild beasts
and wilder men.
This was on the
night before the historic BATTLE of
Iolenso in which five thousand Beers
rnder General Louis Botha inflicted a
brushing defeat on General Buffers
sixty-two thousand British troops and
smashed them, the pride Of an empire
under its most distinguished general.
back with such force that the whole
world trembled from the unexpected
,hock
How did l get there, being
Frenchmanl
The answer is Duquesne, OF the
historic blood of my own country.
My adventure would hardly be
yorth the telling without description
bf the man with whom had it.
What has he not done2 Around him
new adventure and experience. He
attracted il as magnet pulls iron
hlings, or he gravitated toward 1t. He
looked for it, and what is more won-
herful, he found it. Every moment
OF his life, it seemed was filled with an
experience that made ones blood tin
gle, making him curse himself because
he was not born in wild Africa, among
those brave and chivalrous people of
Dutch and French blood that go TO
make up the Boer race.
This man (sometimes he looks like
boy) has had more experience
,queezed into his young life than any
pther being Of his age, and | believe
pf any other. He served through
their native wars before he was
twenty, escaping death 1t seemed only
by a miracle Went through the Boer
war acting as the special agent of Paul
Kruger and Doctor Leyds, plenipo-
tentiary of the Boer Republics. To
him were intrusted the plans and or
panIzations for the seizure OF cape
Town by the Beers.
Sentenced to Death.
". was captured after a series OF
nerve straining experiences WITHIN inc
british lines, together with several
others and ali were sentenced to death.
Most of the others were shot. but as
fhe world was shocked by this ruth
less slaughter of the Boer prisoners,
Ind let John Bull know of II in un--
measured terms. the last patches of
s,risoners got off with their sentences
Committed to life imprisonment IN
irons. Duquesne served ten months
in Bermuda and then with the help OF
a girl on the outside, he, with two
others, Fritz Bosch. and Willie du
Toit. broke from the prison one wild
night while a storm was raging. Bosch
was shot dead by the guard. du Tot
ESCAPED with wound, and Duquesne,
who escaped unharmed, helped his
romnaniorl swim across the channel,
against the tide TO the mainland. Inc
swim took two and half hours. Dur
ING this time the gunboats and cruisers
piayed their searchlights on the shark
Infested water. and their riflemen shot
at everything in the water.
The fueitives reached the other is
land but 'du Toit was unable to con
tinue and he gave himself UP to the
British, informing them that Duquesne
had been seized by a shark during
sir swim for liberty. He was not
believed, and a good search for Du-
uuesne took place. Notices were
stuck up in every public place and a
reward was offered for his head. by
Major Morris, the adjutant general OF
Prisoners OF Wa. at Bermuda:
For six days Duquesne, who lived
OF, raw onions and potatoes that are
abundant in Bermuda, was hunted like
n mad dog through the plantations,
and from island to island. lodging
death from flying bullets at every turn,
IT is estimated in Bermuda that hye
hundred shots were fred at him with
out one taking effect His reputation
among the soldiers who called him
iKruger's JackaP was so bad that no
one would get within reasonable
shooting distance, and as he carried
piece of iron pipe he found it was noised
about that he had secured rifle, and
no English soldier, II he could help
II, would get into the range OF a Boer
with rifle.
Reaches United States.
On the sixth day Duquesne got on
the yacht Margaret. owned by X
Emerson of the New York Yacht Club.
He was conveyed to Baltimore where
ne landed. After walking In his prison
clothes TO New York he was arrested
al the request OF the British govern
ment who endeavored to extradite him
ON charges of murder. Some promi-
nent New York Irishmen used their
influence and money to show that the
British charges could not be proved,
and Duquesne was freed Some
Englishmen trying to earn the reward
tried 70 kidnap him and rush him.
across the Csbadian border by SD
acina him to Nlsdsya. Nsx weslH II