The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-12
AMERICAN IS VICTIM
Of THUGS OF PARIS
Taken by Confidence Man to Rem
devious, Robbed, Drngged and
Left to Perish in the Cold.
DUEL THAT IS SERIOUS
Men Fight Who Do Not Know
Weapons and One May Die
as Result of Ignorance.
BY PAUL VILLIERS.
rho Tribune.

Special Cahe to Tho lflDune'
PARIS. Feb. 1.-The Partisan police
are unable to cope with the crime that Is
disgra cling the city Indeed. 1t has be-
travel In pairs and trios at night IN GER
! tain sections.
An American has had an unpleasant
| experience at the hands OF Wel or
| ganized gang. Just outside the CITY, De
meath q tree in the Bois de Nlnccnncs,
James n. Mllner was found by two Sol
ders frozen with, cold and bound hand
and foot; Near him ,s was an empty p G,ngy pnlai
Mr.. Miner had to tell;
| II arrived from Berlin and went TO the
| Care du Nord to inquire for train 10
Marseilles a well-dressed man told me
1 was at the wrong station. and we got
| into a motor car to 80 to the Care de
Lyon. After half an hour We stopped
In front Of tall house aha dark my corridor rI
and up a stair. where two men seized
"Then about fifteen people got AROUND
Sian The one who spoke English or,
dered me to take my clothes OH. ana ana
when I was naked they gave me ,he
went through my pockets and took my my
papers and money, $1,000. After they had
told me that II said word ] was a
dead man, 1 sat in a chair all night,
watched in turn by Eve men, who were
relieved every hour by others. The next
| day ] was driven In a motor car 70 thG
| woods where / was 1OunQ. anu ditSI
had been given several drops OF LIQUID
| I believe to have been chloroform I was
tied up and left"
Greenhorns Fight With Rapiers.
The height OF the dueling season was
| marked last week by an astonishing com .
| bat In which one Of the most popular or
Partisan humorists was severely wounded
1t arose out of an alteration on the
| boulevards due to earlier dispute car
| red on with nothing more dangerous
than letters. Louis Vauxeles. critic, and
Max Fischer, author. exchanged cares
and appointed seconds, and duel with
swords was decided upon, but apparently
neither had anything moro than speak
| Ing acquaintance with weapons.
Vauxelles attacked Fischer as farm
boy might attack q bullock. Once he
nearly spitted himself on his adversary
sword.
Vauxelles was evidently the child OF
! fortune. for re himself a few seconds
! later profited by the only piece OF wanton
tactics in which his adversary INDUCED.
| Fischer ran OH to his sword and was
deeply wounded in the chest.
Fischer was taken home hurriedly His
condition was serious.
Why Do They Smoker
A newspaper has been questioning
playwrights and other authors about
Maurice Dounay replied that formerly
he smoked half a dozen cigarettes day
| then he gave 1t up and since that time ne
|
pleases.
Alfred Canis said he would be glad
II he could give up smoking, for ~ gave
him no pleasure, and he believed that in
F! the long run tobacco was an undesirable
| collaboration.
"At first we smoke TO be able to work
and finally we worked only to be able to
| smoke"
George Fedyeau replied: II used
to smoke great deal. but have given ii
up because I found 1t impaired my mem
| ory"
The Rosny brothers, Paul marguerite
and the composer. Massenet, answered
briefly: ''We do not smoke
Louis Came used the weed I'LL he was
twenty five. when he quit, to please his
sweetheart
:'Too muchv' wrote Francis de Croiset
in answer TO the question whether he
smoked and to the second question
whether II helped or harmed him, he re
piled. II don't know nor wish to know.
| Henri Bernstein wrote. Tobacco sum-
ulates me, but | do not know whether IL
benefits me-
Alexandra Bisson smokes once in two
weeks, because he does not want his en-
joyment to degenerate into necessity.
Jules Clarette admitted that be smoked
cigarettes. but does not know why-"cer
tainly not for pleasure
Youngsters Garry Revolvers,
George Maigret had been a good boy
and so on New Years day his mother
who is not very well off gave him him 4,
mad took out his purse TO pay for q seat
at picture show palace. Suddenly, an
other year old boy snatched the purse
and made off with II.
George went home and told his
mother. She comforted him as best she
could and sent him out to buy a loaf OF
shop, small boy. about 10 years Of age.
| fred at him with a revolver and wound
ed him in the spine.
The youngster struggled home. and his
mother found a bullet hole in his coat
and his shirt soaked with blood. He is
now in a hospital.
| A boy can buy n revolver here as free
ly as he can bug candy,
But business is business.
May Limit Champagne Supply,
Abortive attempts at disturbance by
the champagne wine makers occurred
recently. but the villagers are strongly
and bitter. NJ. BRAND the prime minis
ter has announced that measures had
already been taken and others were GO
| ing 10 be proposed 10 remedy the griev-
apccs Of winegrowers.
| In the course of lecture in the Thea
tTe Michel reccntl-- Mile Helene Miro
cleverest lady lawyers. declared that
| feminism did not drive women who
worked as lawyers. doctors and in other
professions 10 do so because love had not
come I'm their way.
at is unfair" said the lecturer. ITO
consider us incapable OF love because
we work for n living
| When she sat down n gentleman rose
| from his stall. and in the presence Of an
| amused audience made a proposal for
| Mile Miropolskys hand In marriage She
said she appreciated the compliment. but
had no idea OF becoming n wife.
Execution La Paris.
Even in the matter OF death there is
| an air of eclat In this country A man
| named Favier was recently executed at
Lille. During the night before the legal
killing. peddiers sold postal cards bearing
his picture and that OF his victim. TO the
| crowd that remained around the jail
until morning.
j AS is the custom in France. Favier