The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-13

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rich man home to dine with him
The latter accepted They came to
house the guest had never before Wis
tied. But the moment he entered the
place something about 1t seemed odd
ly familiar TO him.
1t was not until they sat down to an
elaborate meal that the visitor under
stood the cause of this feeling. The
gold dishes on the table bore his own
monogram! So did the table linen
and the costly hangings of the room
A second amazed glance showed him
that the furniture, too, was his. He
started up In bewilderment.
Sit down. beg" urged the strang-
er. Il robbed your house today of
everything Of value and used the
plumber to furnish this little home Of
mine. That is why / asked you to
dine with me. 1t seemed only fair
that you should have chance to say
farewell to your treasures"
The guest whipped out his sword
and rushed in fury at his host. The
stranger made no effort to defend
AAthoCiA. A<CdAin6 4dbA4y OdNh LII LIS
chair, he remarked:
II am Cartouche."
At these simple words the guests
rage turned to terror Dropping his
sword, he ran from the house in panic
dred, leaving Cartouche in the undis-
puted possession of the stolen valua-
bles.
4 fThfo fc hpf orn ~ h,xn
dotes that show the skill and impu-
dence of Frances most picturesque
BLACKBOARD and the fear In which his
very name was held. Louis Dominique
Cartouche was born in Paris about
1893. He had not only q positive
genius for crime, but an equal genius
as leader and organizer He gath
cred about him. as a mere lad. band
OF crooks whom he ruled with cruel
discipline and who were taught to
obey his slightest wish as though it
were divine law. ss+ e,ssss
d He mapped Paris and its suburbs
into regular districts, appointing a
superintendent and regular staff of
ruffians to each. He then evolved I'M
cannily clever methods of theft and
highway robbery for each Of these dis
tricts until no mans life or posses
sions were safe. BY Cartouche's per-
feet system the most daring crimesl
were committed in open daylight and
went unpublished.
"The rich," Cartouche once DECLARED,
Give that they may be robbed. That
is their one excuse for existence"
He spent his wealth as rapidly as
he won it. Living In magnificent style,
wearing clothes and jewels such as
most poblemen could not afford, he
made love to women of royal birth,
entertained duchesses at wonderful
banquets and continued to make him
self more dreaded by the public at
large than was the plague itself.
at was recorded" writes a chron-
icler, that the cry, Here comes Car
touche,' would empty the fullest
street.
But, like all others of his sort, Car
touche at last was captured. He showed
no fear, when, after countless hair
breadth escapes, he found himself
fast in the net of the law. He laughed
at judge and jury, mercilessIy taunt-
ing them, goading them to madness
with singing wit. When his death
warrant was read aloud to him he
halted the proceedings to point out a
grammatical error in the legal paper.
For years he had baff1ed the police.
His arrest, in 1921. was accomplished
by mere chance as he sat drinking in
a cafe. So shrewdly had he laid his
plans that before a conviction could
be secured his trial dragged on for
many months and was the sensation
of the whole country. He was finally
condemned to a horrible death-to be
broken alive upon the wheel"
To the very last nobody believed
that the wonderful Cartouche would
permit himself to be executed. It was
expected that, by some trick of his
strange brain or by a rescue on the
part Of his followers. he would get