Show I WHAT DOSS DOBS HE HEMau B Mau Mait Who Possesses the Gift of burn burning urn ing i g the Heads of All Women St Louis Paris A man malt who does nut not know r where he be was wan born borz though he be looks about 59 years of age IB Is ig ignorant as to hi hl nationality and who can give nu flu account of his father or mother who French German English Spanish and Italian with equal vol volubility utility and dom does not know walck language he knows best a aman aman man in line fine who sot set all the Paris d agog in ISM having been the friend and boon companion of the celebrated Princes of Bagdad who brought Suzanne Denal Derval Helene Arao Marie Lax La robe and a r society beauties Into court to tott tt th great joy of the Judges and the frequenters of the Paris assizes has spin n come up before the courts court and tt time for or a swindle which tar far ex cx rs that of Call all the Humbert family combined having obtained at one stroke the signature to a of one oae of the greatest financiers of Paris M MK Mx K x who neatly and without conditions conveyed to him a solid banking ee es t J in spick and span order worth francs france His Hie same or at least the name which he gives himself and aed legally his hi own according to the 1 rison records is No Nobody Nobody body knows where he Me comes from and he claims that he does not know it himself and the earth can bring for forward forWard ward no witnesses to hi antecedents But there L is a legitimate suspicion that he i 1 a direct descendent dependent of some Oriental wizard a son of some som won wonderful dorfel or hero here of the Nights for he has the gilt gift of turning the heads of alt all women he ever ap approach preaches of hypnotizing theto hearts on sight and with a peculiar pecullar sort of magic making them believe that he heis heIs is the husband of a dozen of ot them atthe at the same seme time tIni In all the annals of strange adventures adventures tures and brilliant mystifications re recorded recorded corded by the Parisian courts there thereto to Is compete with this mans who peri drops drene from the clouds or prisons In 18 he ho heat first became celebrated II He made the acquaintance S of the widow of a renowned Rouman ian senator who w a in and for that reason reeson Assumed title of Princess of rca res engaged her as his after exl exi acting francs tA celebrate the event His fancy th to lint husbands for aft the widowed and or orphaned phased In Paris The Countess dc de who en entered entered into tat ery was vaa pleased to negotiate with him arid and though he had seen her only fn her life she shei i consented to let him draw out a packet of francs franc She he sad had in her corset She admitted It hilariously be before before fore the courts anti and said that she was fully aware of the tito transaction and that she hd lied full leave and li 13 license i cerise cense to the hero herp before the court j i 1 waa fully couscous at the time that but could not explain how hov ane ste was so far hypnotized by Her singular and nd new tew acquaintance To Suzanne Deral Darral he promised a monthly allowance of francs on condition that she sh should make over overto overto to him all her fortune which she com complacently slid m In fine ben they lint had I alt all been fleeced the promised prince I or grand uke never came and then than offered altered himself as the future husband being berng strange to say enthusiastically accepted accented and in this way he became at one ope time affianced to more than a of the gayest dames in the gay Parisian It was only when the day of settle settlement mint ment came and he could not marry them all on the same esme flay day that they escaped front from their hypnotic bondage for a moment and brought complaint against hint The trial was one of the gayest ever witnessed In court The Judges enjoyed It immensely higher prices were pelt paid for the privilege of entering edt th the court roon ihan had over aver been paid for seats seals in a theatre a committee of doctors had to be sent to Nice ice to interview the Princess of Bagdad who only oly said that like Ca Calypso she mourned the loss Ios of her prince li the waves of the sea end and the ahole thing would have been the most amusing vaudeville If It the tri tn tribunal bunal had not prescribed two years of imprisonment to the gay adventurer adventures before that had been also of a nature In itt Inthe tile the polities Held 1964 it is re he a had founded a republican paper and vigorously the th then reigning emperor in company with Gambetta and the father of ct tile the present minister edthe French navy M the commune In 1870 1310 all his papers Were seized by the then minister of justice M who robbed him of his birth certificate and even of that of his baptism of which he now he no longer re remembers remembers members the contents ceMents Two years of prison however did not terrify him Ha Hh accepted them joyfully and nd said eald that he lie hailed a pe period riot of quiet and repose as hl his life had bad realty really been bei too tun busy His wife for he really had bad one though she was the second on the list having been ne a month after lila his first hat had died obtained a divorce during his Im Ire Imprisonment and at once regretted it when she saw ou on his liberation that he again became the Idol of a host of fern fem mine irine admirers who literally loaded him with money He lived like a it na us nabob bob for eight years when strange to say two years ago he was ruined in a away away way that he be cannot explain himself It was waa a novelty for him hini to be poor and it did not net tuble him overmuch He happened to make the acquaint acquaintance ance of ot a certain viscount who stood before blot aim without a penny in t world Out of compassion pidard asked him how much he needed to re reestablish reestablish establish himself anti and the viscount thought he lie asked a great deal daI by put putting putting ting the at francs Oh francs said are a baga telie I shall get you ou that in three days He at once explained his plan He would invite the wife of one of the greatest financiers In Paris to accompany pany peny him on an innocent trip to SWItZ SWItZerland erland and one once in Baste Basle he would write to the to send on the little sum Alt All this was done and in ina a 8 few rew days he handed the little gift to the viscount Things turned out un however The husband hurried to Switzerland lodged a com complaint plaint against and the Swiss courts recommended another cure of lj ix months in a Swiss prison felt insulted at this and aft after after er he be had taken his legal vacation came back l to Paris hound to have hav re revenge revenge He so sd piled the great financier that though incredible as it may ma ap appear appear pear the latter finally begged him to let his wife alone for a consideration of W Just when he was about to into possession of his fortune the financier quarried quail d with him about some details and finally appealed to the courts to have the tha transaction set aside This te Is now how now happens to be a second time be before tore fore the Paris courts His lawyer Maitre Jacques very eloquent eloquently ly pleated pleaded that the transaction was perfectly honorable and ought to be carried out The government procurator Maitre only r that might h lie and made chevalier of the Lesion Legion of Honor In fact the court seems to be considerably puzzled and has announced that judg judgment ment would not Be gome time next nest January I |