The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-19
people did not know their client The
Countess is still missing.


Countess is still missing.
Here's the story of another woman
swindler
Dressed in the heighs OF fashion, a
woman here has been in the habit OF
eating in the most expensive restau-
rants. She enters the place accom-.
panied by little girl. After eating
bountifully of the choicest thing on
the bill of fare, she gets up and tells
the child to wait for her moment as
she is going to buy her some candy.
The woman waits to say this until
waiter Is near She is permitted to
go out without question or suspicion.
But when after an hour is gone and
the child still waits, the restaurant
people grow uneasy.
Isn't your mamma coming back
the waiter asks cautiously.
oh, she isn't my mamma" the
child replies.
Questioned, the child has invariably
told the same, or rather the children,
for 1t is different child every time.
She has simply met the woman in the
street. never having seen her before.
BY the promise of bonhons the child
is induced to accompany the woman
to the restaurant. And there you are.
So infested is the famous Bots de
Boulogne with hiehwaymen and even
assassins that It Is unsafe to venture
afoot through its shadows after sun
down. The government may take
action in the matter and add further
police.
Almost every day the papers con.
tain the account of one or more rob-
berries in the Bots, sometimes accom-
panied by murderous assaults. Re-
Gently an American. William Beat,
was knocked unconscious and robbed.
He had dined at the Pavilion Chinois
in the Bots and had started to walk
back to Paris, the night being per-
feet, Being a stranger in town he
lost his direction Meeting three
people he asked the way He was led
deeper into the park instead of out of
! 1T, and there Knocked on the head and
robbed of everything he had on him.
Passers-by discovered him lying by
the side OF the road an hour or SO
later and carried him to a pharmacy.
The evening before this adventure.
a Russian. Serge Ivanhoff, a rich
landowner, after taking dinner in the
-Elysees thought drive
through the Bots, In a taxi would
prove refreshing. The taxi broke
down in the edge of the grove and the
Russian, nothing loath decided to
walk on until he met another auto.
Presently two handsomely dressed
women came up On either side of him
and took his arm. He protested, but
they chung on They quite openly
took his watch, chain, purse and tie.
| pin and when he objected one of the
women stabbed him in the arm. He
shouted for help but one of the women
whistled shrilly and three men came
running up. They knocked him down
and pounded him into insensibility,
then left him. Coming to, he started
/ out of the Bots Hearing talking he
let himself be guided by the sound
until he came upon the three men and
two women who had robbed him.
Bravely going after them. the Rus
sian was in a moment unconscious.
but this time bleeding profusely from
six knife wounds.
Ivanhoff was found the next morn.
ing He may recover.
These are mere instances of what
is constantly occurring. The Bots,
being so large and so thickly studded
with trees, is difficult to police. On
one side runs the Notifications of
Paris and these are notorious for be.
ing the cruising ground of the dread
ed "apaches