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Show SLEPT IN CHESTNUT TREE. Queer Abode Chosen by Impecunious Venezuelan. A policeman on duty in the Champs .Elysees, Paris, the other night was surprised to see a man climb up the trunk of one of the large chestnut trees and disappear among the branches. The officer obtained a ladder lad-der and ascended the tree and discovered discov-ered a hammock slung to the branches and with a man lying comfortably in it. At the police station he gave his name as Aosario Paz. He said he was a colonel in the Venezuelan army; that he had taken part in the revolutionary revolu-tionary struggle then going on, was taken prisoner, but escaped. A price being set on his head, he fled to Europe, Eu-rope, but having very little money when he reached Paris he took up his abode in a tree to save hotel expenses. ex-penses. He produced papers in proof of his assertions and was pleased with a caution. |