The Washington times., 1922-11-26

III A T last Guy M. Dernier got what
~ was coming to him. He was a
love pirate with hundred mar
ried Swccthcarts. It's a wonder he did
not die soOnerr' is the widely expressed
sentiment of the community where the
love pirate lived.
And it is not likely that the mystery
of the finding of the body of Mr.. Guy
NJ. Dernicr floating in an irrigation ditch
near Phoenix, Ariz.. will ever be officially
cleared up. Tho rIaa who atranglrd the
love pirate and tossed him into the ditch is
said to b" known to everybody in Phoenix,
and now walks the streets Of the city with
head erect and fearless.
Phoenix is well rid Of human vulturc
Who preycd upon the fircsidcs of his
friends and fellow club members, is the
general feeling. Sooner or later he was
doomed. The man who ended the love
pirates existence is regarded as a public
bcnefactor, nobody desires to see him
mOleSted.
If Dernier, the love pirate, had carried
on his affairs secretly and with discrim-
ination he might have been alive to-day,
but a low" pirate who boasts Of his con-
quests and carries in his pocket a memo
randum with the names and addresses of
the women he says he has conquered
could not he tolerated. Dernier had
to die.
1t was only question of time before
Dcrnirr'S career as a dcSpOiler of homes
would end as it did 1t is often said that
a husband is the last person in the world
to learn Of his wifc's indiScrctions, hut
out Of hundred husbands th"rp is apt
to be az least one who is keen and obsCrv-
ing enough to take in the situation. as
shown in Dernier'S case.
AS matter of fact, Dernier was so
blatantly boastful about his conquests
that his reputation as a "lady killer"
spread quite rapidly, with the result that
a number of husbands, confident withal
in the constancy of their wives, neverthe-
less kept a watchful eye open when Der
nier was around and also when he wasn't
The successful and prominent business
man who is not being prosecuted for
Dernicr's death was one of these.
He had heard of the mRraudcr's Opcn
Dragging about his successful invasion Of
homes and knew of the little book which
contained the names and addresses of
well-knOwn Phoenix wives, who, under
DernierS spell, he boasted had stepped
from the paths of rectitude and wifely
devotion. AS soon as Dernier succeeded
in breaking down a woman's resistance,
her name 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-
ton as to how many of those names in his
little book were really his conqucsts-
some of them. at least, are knC ~n to be
entirely beyond suspicion. The love
pirate was, then, a liar as we'll as
braggart.
It 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-
fident 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
,Ircd married sweCthearts.
IT, view of his braggadocio, it was in
,,itG5le that some O.: the husbands came
TO know about Dernier's activities and.