The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-11-26
REAL FACTS STRANGER Than
WEIRDEST FICTION STORIES
imagination OF the Most Gifted Novelist 0utdone by Lies Real
Romances-No One Could Have Imagined Or Written
Such Stupendous Tragedy as the War the
World Has lust Gone Thouuh

who has been called the Nan With
out Country" and the Human Shut
tie" who sails the high seas from
country to country. everywhere de smed
an undesirable and turned away BY
the immigration authorities. With no
country to go to. he sails from port
to port, a citizen Of Neptune's do
mains. perhaps changing ships occa-
sionally, but always travelling the
seas. II Is time for him to arrive back
at some American port from Buenos
Ayres or some other remote port
and for a few days the newspapers |
again will record his story which Is
stranger than fiction.
stowaways Are Common.
| Stowaways by hundreds come into
this port from all the countries of the
world and their stories have been told
so many times that sometimes the
newspapers omit any mention Of them.
They range from lads of 10 and IL
years old to old men with the vision
of adventure in a new land still be-
; fore their eyes--and some are woi'Aen.
, There was recently the true story
: of the Greek steamship Thessalo- Xxi
: that fought ninety-mile gales for a
e week during the heaviest winter
a weather on the Atlantic, with engines
: disabled and food lockers empty. I'M
8 til help stood by to take of crew and
|. passengers. The ship was never seer
$ again.
h Then there is the mystery Of the Cy
d clops, which never reached her por
n and was swallowed up in the hig'
D. seas.
a These are stories the reader feel
d to be far more strange than fictiot
ID for while fiction seems to struggle I
n be real or realistic, the truth seems
Of struggle to be unreal and fantastic
or ~ least romantic.
Plots Of many Of the great opera
:. Of some great novels, and Of mar
!, works of fiction not SO great, are base
upon police court cases, upon murder
thievery, or some other crime. A
= companied by music and surround'
=" by the Jewels Of the Diamond Hors
~ shoe, the sordid crime story may Z
~ come ''high art"
=. In many of the hundred or so mi
~ ders In this city every year Z
quently there are score which,
fore the police step in, are just
avg -nmont,c MS any love story in the
- ton OF Thomas uaruy'-uttnough II
81" DIV carried his cases to the courts
% frequently to the gallows. There
~" murders for love, murders for gr
'n. spoils and sums Of money, and stra
'rs or than any fiction are the unsol
ea, murders committed in this city IN
WIN bond and whisky thefts.
F." Strange Murders.
Where in fiction is anything n
80 fantastic than that unsolved mui
"sos of two Chinese government represe
tives in the Chinese embassy at w
t;on ington or some Of the Chinese
o.. ders In this city? Or the Italian
~ dettas in this city, many OF w
49, killings never find their way into
-, because the crimes are SO numer
And the romantic murders" witt
a.. Amounted love as the motive,
t.. many foolish SWANS can be found
wear in a metropolitan district
..;na 100000, and how many suicides
' e.n committed after disappointments
~. ~ chief interest in lifel In the hal
w. n.,a master plotter and character sS
~" or they are romance, but In the
records they are merely sordid
" nleasant chronicles, but neverth
like fiction and true.
lived a le" n .f,cor who was
-, amounted at not seeing serV
'"" France, entered the cellar OF a
sion in Greenwich, Conn.,, ana,
at nistol flashes in the dark, afts
DRY y, let's had smashed his hand e
ca' ~. lomp with tinkling OF glass;
'el Wy s two burglars who were waiting
.ns to STAY him. There is the san