The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-07-10
SUSPECTED Female
RAFFLES TURNS OUT
TO BE WIFE'S DEC0Y
Partisan Finds "Apache's Vic
tim" Plotting With Helpmate
to Compromise Him.
SHOOTS; SHE FAINTs
Then Police Arrive and Arrest Woman
as conspirator Whom Hus-
band Unwittinely Pro-
tected.

Paris. Special: M. Favelle, a wealthy
merchant of this city, has received
practically gratis an insight into fe-
minnie duplicity which he is never like
ly to forget.
The education began by his seeing
at a very late hour at night, a light in
his wife's bedroom. AS Nine. Favelle
was out of town M. Favelle got his
automatic pistol and attempted to en-
ter the room.
Immediately he crossed the threshold
out went the electric light. Convinced
that the person in the room was there
for no good purpose, M, Favelle fired
into the air. simultaneously with the
second sharp crack of the pistol came
a females screams, which was followed
by a duh thud.
Cautiously advancing, the household
er made towards the electric light but
ton and switched on the light. The first
rays displayed a charming young 1wo-
man clad in Mime. Favelle's latest eve
ming gown, lying unconscious upon the
carpet.
M. Favelle applied restoratives with
such good effect that Is minute later
the woman was sitting upon a settee
n unfolding a hair raising tale.
Briefly, she was the tool of a gang
of the worst Apaches in all the four
quarters of the City of Light. The gang.
she said, had made her enter the house
and had, through fear Of death, COM
PEELED her to throw valuables to them
to the grounds below.
Tells Of Temptation.
At length, said the fair %raconteur.
madame's b~edchamber was reached
and the first thing that the opening
of the wardrobe disclosed was the
beautiful creation which the speaker
was now wearing.
1T was Irresistible, m'sieu,'' she said
to M. Favelle. 1.-THE Apaches outside
threatened to come and shoot me If ]
did not hurry, but, m'sieu, 1 was raw
e with that evening gown, and
whether l was killed or not I had to
put 1t On. Then / added some of mad
ame's jewels--they are exquisite m'sieu
and then, all me! I heard footsteps.
The dread Apaches We're coming to
kin me. / thought, but. m'sieu it was
you. Then-well, doesn't m'sieu know
the rest?"
80 with a few choice compliments NJ.
Fayelle gave his charming burglar her
liberty.
But she did not want it What use
is it to me, m'sieu,' she asked, Since
once I'm outside / shall in all proba-
oility taste death?" NJ. Favelle said
what she had said was correct and
ONS NVSIpCo " lGN hcE ietIldlI
upon the premises until daybreak.
Detectives and Police Arrive.
Two hours later came the great de-
1ouement. There was a loud hammer
ing upon the door, accompanied by a
pattering of gravel upon the upper win
lows. Reloading his pistol, M. Fayeile
went to a window and upon reconnoi-
tering the vicinity of the front door
saw a posse of detectives and uni
formed policemen.
In the belief that the policemen had
come for the young Apache, M. Favelle
decided to hide her in the bedroom
The hammering upon the door and the
shouts of open in the name Of the
law became SO insistent that. M. Fla.
yelle admitted the senior officers, who
speedily discovered the fair. intruder
What M. Favelle heard soon after.
wards made his ems reel. Nine. Fa.
velle, said M. inspector, had con.
spired to put the beautiful woman ii
the house for the sole object OF. obtain.
ing evidence to secure a divorce from
nj. Favelle with accompanying none.
tary benefits. and upon hearing OF the
conspiracy the police had interviewed.
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