The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-04-02

He Was In q Dozen Places at Once.
one Of his assailants, and TarZan
fought as he had learned to fight with
the great bull apes Of the tribe Of Ker
chak.
He was in dozen places at once
leaping hither and thither about the
room in sinuous bounds that reminded
the woman of a panther she had seen
at the zoo. Now wrist bone snapped
in his iron grip, now a shoulder was
wrenched from its socket as he forced
victims arm backward and upward
With shrieks of pain the men escaped
into the hallway as quickly as they
could, but even before the first one
staggered, bleeding and broken, from
the room Rokoff had seen enough to
convince him that Tarzan would not
be the one to lie dead in that house
this night, and SO the Russian had has
tened to nearby den and telephoned
the police that q man was committing
murder on the third floor Of Rue
Maule, %.
When the officers arrived they found
three men grooming on the floor, a
frightened woman lying upon filthy
bed, her face buried in her arms, and
what appeared to be a well dressed
young gentleman standing in the GEN.
ter of the room awaiting the re-en-
fOrcements which he had thought the
footsteps of the officers hurrying up
the stairway had announced, but they
were mistaken in the last. 1t was a
wild beast that looked upon them
through those narrowed lids and steel
gray eyes. With the smell of blood the
last vestige of civilization had desert
ed Tarzan, and now he stood at bay,
like lion surrounded by hunters,
awaiting the next overt act and crouch
ing to charge its author.
what has happened here" asked
one Of the policemen.
Tarzan explained briefly, but when
he turned to the woman for cOnf1rma-
ton of his statement he was appalled,
by her reply.
HE lies" she screamed shrilly, ad-
dressing the policemen. "He came to
my room while / was alone, and for
no good purpose. When I repulsed
him he would have killed me had not
my screams attracted these gentlemen,
who were passing the house at the
time. He is a devil, monsieurs. Alone
he has all but killed ten men with his
bare hands and his teeth"
So shocked was Tarzan by her in
gratitude that for a moment he was
struck dumb. The police were inclined
to be little skeptical, for they had
had other dealings with this same
lady and her lovely coterie Of gentle
men friends. However, they were po-
licemen, not judges, so they decided to
place all the inmates of the room un-
der arrest and let another, whose bust
ness It was, separate the innocent from
the guilty.
But they found that 1t was one thing
to tell this well dressed young man
that he was under arrest, but quite
another to enforce 1t. One of them
advanced to lay his hand upon Tar
zan's shoulder. An instant later he
lay crumpled in corner Of the room,
and then, as his comrades rushed In
upon the ape-man, they experienced
taste of what the apaches had but re-
Gently gone through. So quickly and
so roughly did he handle them that
they had not even an opportunity to
draw their revOlvers.
During the brief fight Tarzan had
noted the open window and beyond the
stem of tree or telegraph pole, he
could not tell which. AS the last off,
GER went down one of his fellows sue
ceeded In drawing his revolver and
from where he lay on the door fred at