The Washington herald., 1922-11-26
ff A T last Guy M. Dernier got what
~ was coming to him. He was a
love pirate with hundred mar

~ was coming to him. He was
love pirate with hundred mar
ried sweethearts. It's a wonder he did
not die sooner" is the widely expressed
sentiment of the community where the
love pirate lived.
And it is not likely that the myster,
of the finding of the body of Mr.. Guy
M. Dernier floating in an irrigation ditch
near Phoenix, Ariz., will ever he officially
cleared up. Thr ran who s',3ngled the
love pirate and tossed him into the ditch is
said to be known to everybody in Phoenix,
and now walks the streets of the city with
head erect and fearless.
p,loeni, is well rid Of a human vulture
who preycd upon the firesides of his
friends anil fellow club members, is the
general feeling. Sooner or later he was
doomed. The man who ended the love
pirates existence is regarded as public
benefactor, nobody desires to see him
mOleSfed.
IL Dcrnier, the love pirate, had carried
on his affairs secretly and with discrim-
nation he might have been alive to-day,
but low. pirate who boasts of his con-
quests and carries in his pocket a memo
rapdum with the names and addresses of
the women he says he has conquered
could not be tolerated. Dernier had
to die
1t was only a question of time before
Dcrnier'S career as despoiler of homes
would end as it did It is often said that
husband is the last person in the world
to learn of his wife'S indiscretions, but
out of a hundred husbands there is apt
to be at least one who is keen and observ-
ing enough to tax in the situation, as
shown in Dcrnier's Ease
As matter of fact, Dernier was so
blatantly boastfrl about his conquests
that his reputation as lady killer"
spread quite rapidly. with the result that
a number of husbands, confident withal
in the constancy of their wives. neverthe-
less kent a wat chir:l eve omen when Der
nier was around and also when he wasn't
The Successful and prominent business
man who is not being prosecuted for
Derniers death was one of these.
He had heard of the marauder's open
Dragging about his successful invasion of
homes and knew of the little book which
contained the na.nes and addresses of
well-known Phoenix wives, who, under
Dernicr's spill. he boasted had stepped
from the paths of rectitude and wifely
devotion As soon as Dernier succeeded
in hrcalSIn% down woman's resistance,
hey nam went into the little book, he
said, and he Dragged about another victim
to his wilcs, and another skeleton hung
in the closet of home. But it is ques-
tion as to how many of those names in his
little book were really his conquests-
some Of them. ut least. are knC wn to be
entirely beyond suspicion. The love
pirate was, then, a liar as well as
braggart.
II was with Satanic satisfaction that
the scoundrelly Dernier displayed his
fast growing list to his various ac-
quaintances, but he took good care not
to show it to married men, unless con-
fidcnt that he would, for one reason or
another, never care to invade his home.
Finally. the list is said to have reached
one hundred, and Dernier became known
and pointed out as the man with one hun
dred married sweethearts.
In view of his braggadocio, it was in
evitable that some oe the husbands came
to know about Dernier's activities and.