Show chauffeurs of long ago there were chauffeurs long before automobiles history tells us that about the year 1795 men strangely ac couteret cout ered their faces covered with soot and their eyes carefully disguised entered by nights farms and lonely habitations and committed all sort of depredations they garroted their victims dragged them before a great fire where they burned the soles ol 01 their feet and demanded information as to the whereabouts of their money and jewels hence they were called chauffeurs a name which frightened so touch our good grandmothers |