Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-31

panied by an adventurous youth. re-
volver naked and ostensible in hand.
1t gives a wild west look to Paris
streets to see the modest half-ashamed
runner, in his military-loolking uniform,
cling for protection to some hard-eyed.
alert smiling, smooth-faced husky of the
very type of hunter, and his finger itch
ing to pull the trigger. Bank runners
have been chosen rather for their hon
esty than nerve or guncraft Caby &C
tually forgot that he had a revolver in
his pocket!
You have heard Of Caby. In the tran
quill Rue Ordener, carrying $4,000 to a
branch Of the Compton National, he saw
pull Revolver. TRANQUILITY aim at his
heart and fire. With a bullet in his
lungs. Caby still struggled. Another shot
from behind laid him down. The last
thing he remembers ie the thugs tear
ing away the money portfolio chained to
his body and, shooting and shot at, pur-
sued by the crowd, getting away in a
swift auto.
Shortly after Caby's affair another re
ceipt man. was attacked and relieved of
$4,000. 1t must be noted that proper
bank runners are quite numerous. Apart
from their makeshift clearing house
work. all commercial bills are collected
either through banks or-for small bills
the post office. The victim, cashier of the
monthly settlement" cash from the So
ciete Generate and was within a hum
dred steps OF his establishment. Just
before one of those covered passages"
connecting parallel streets he was sand
bagged and damned In the solar pleXuS.
When he came to the packages of two
hundred and one-hundred dollar bills
had quit his inside pocket, but shop
keepers and pedestrians had pursued the
robbers through the handy passage, fir
usual. in waiting automobile.
But the meeting of public safety.
l must stop citing aggressions; they
would fiji a page. Be sure the people OF
Paris are determined to clean up the
town, when daily papers hire a theateI
for public discussion of the danger and
prominent Parisians of all classes prom.
Use to confer with government function
aries. police and detectives.
Does IT not remind you of the vigilan-
ties? Called for March 10, at the Theater
Femina, the meeting of public safety
will be opened with the Hymn OF New
York" translated and adapted into
French:
East SIDE west side,
All around the town.
Crooks are holding victims up
And knocking others down.
Georges Berry, rich, high-spirited mu-
nicipal councillor, will tell how, for prac-
teal election purposes. his bill to re-
strain the reckless sale of weapons and
increase the sentences Of law breakers
caught using or carrying them has been
side-tracked in the chamber.
Armorers shop windows are, indeed, a
scandal in Paris, more numerous in a
single ward than in half Chicago. Amer
lean punches (brass knuckles) are sold
two for q quarter; serviceable bone-han-
died stilettos from 80 cents up: eelskins
(sandbags), 81; brass finger rings with
cruel protruding points, 25 cents to 81;
revolvers from 81 up. and automatic pis-
tolls from 81.
Jules Claretie. administrator Of the
Theater Francois. will not agree. He
says: Defend yourselves
And how defend yourselves without a
weapon? The rich can buy sword-canes,
with q revolver concealed in the handle;