Show LIVES HAUNTED BY DY FEAR OF VIOLENCE I m r- r t. t Some Notable Cases Are Recalled Recalled Recalled Re Re- called fan by an English t Writer w BALFOUR OFT IN DANGER 4 J J. J Napoleon and mill Eu RII of nr France i of on n Brink of off lr f Telco Volcano ne t. t London Fob Feb 25 Williamson Williamson r. the he head tl of Scotland Y Yard r once declared that the most nerve nerve- racking nerve te test t a aman av v man could he be put pul to lo was wa the dread of assassination a Some Somo men who were the Iho bravest In war and In meeting allf an all f open n foe were tortured almost t to tit the point of breaking down by the dread I of or secret cret lurking sudden death Dura DurIng During Dur Dur- a ing h his Is experience at Scotland Yard lard it was some som tines times his di disagreeable agreeable dut duty I to convey con to lo certain JI personages the in intimation In- In that thai their lives tit ere ere In Indan dan danger l and to take lake steps to lo Insure their 11 safety safely et A Al At t the pre present time perhaps the most Interesting pe person on who whose c life I Is in II danger r front from tho as assassin is Count t th the tle great groat flu Russian sion stat statesman k The Tho blow Is dreaded adell from a secret source not nol from the ordinary quarter r. r r- r ter tel from lom which have emanated so gO man many Russian murders of hl high h per per- The count I is surrounded b by faithful servants servant who guard him wherever he goes his rooms are searched for hidden Intruders and his I food Is carefully tested for poison polson The count himself laughs at all precautions precautions pre pre- cautions ons and refuses to take an any for himself Inured to dangers he seems not to care cuc what happens to him Pah I do m my best and will tal take e what whal come corner comes he exclaimed d to one who expostulated with him him on his rash- rash IH The nonchalance of Count Witte has 1 I had It UK Its counterpart In man many of our f own nn modern statesmen uit who have hac at rd rl able c e 1 of knowing their lives were threatened I III Detectives Detective Guarded Hal four for W J Mr r. r Balfour when chief secretary IU fc lor l' l Ireland made himself so obnoxious to a small section of desperate con con- that his life was in danger dangel for foro several everal o months Scotland Yard looked etl after him mo most t vigilantly Detectives hovered around him scoured the streets In front of him and followed him at It a distance lead ready for ary even even- lIe He persisted in maintaining that thai the bother was quite unnecessary unnecessary sary ry and after a first protest against It II a. a seemed to dismiss all thought of It il front from lom his mind As to lo giving any auy r intimation to lo the detectives us usA A to lo where he was going when he would go or what whal he hc was I about such an idea never appeared to occur to him lie would walk out of oft t Ills his ollice h In deep thought and 1 ir proceed n c calmly through the s streets reels oblivious of every one near him A j J dozen desperate men idea might have been heen at his elbow and amI he would not nol have f. f regarded d them or r recognized their presence Threats to lo as assassinate a. a Mr Gladsone worried him con considerably jl He lie never however had the slightest fear of as- as sa It was the police precautions precautions that worried him The They made him wretched and Irritable He could never Hever forget that there were detectives b watching over O him He was most t. t courteous and kindly to Iho tho those o e who had the tho responsible duty duly to perform but buthe buthe he could nut not resist the temptation to toIv give Iv them the slip whenever It was He lie used to escape from rom the room b by bya a n convenIent private door dome or or-at or al Hawarden Ha- Ha warden warden-b warden by one of the windows reachIng reachIng reaching reach- reach Ing to lo the lawn and go S-O oft off If for fOl an hour or sos so's ramble by himself free from watchers His Ills hat hn hanging ln on a 0 peg H g gIn In the hall was wa c no guarantee that Its owner was Indoors That hat fooled many a n. detective while Gladstone was calmly wall walking the streets outside In hI Ina Ina hIa a hat he lw had secretly smuggled in At Al warden Hawarden he walked the detectives cs thin whose duty duly It II was to lo keep him insight InI in I sight ht on his hlf rambles rambles- Spies Around Napoleon III HI There were others who cro not ro possessed e ed of such a fearless courage The health of one Irish secretary was known to tu have been wrecked by plots made against his hla life which were only defeated b by the cleverness of Scotland Yard Another home secretary r. r was wa driven en to resignation by hy them m. s The Tho Immense nerve nene of or Napoleon III IK is t said a Id to lo have been broken loken by the Z oj threats of an Italian secret revolutionary lc Ii r t society to take his life liCe For 1 f yc e. e rs the emperor rOl lived a as It 11 were on I the tho brink u of a volcano Isis Ills life was I f. f not nut worth wOIth a months month's purchase f 4 Myriads of police spies brought In Ini Ini i i daily dally reports of plots to assassinate k F. F him and antI he drove e about aboul it In a specially special 1 constructed carriage the the sides of I ij which were secretly plated with Iron ra One night as aH he ho and the Empress i h j. j I Eugenic W were le proceeding to lo the opera Kf S house a l miscreant clant threw a a. bomb be- be Beath the carriage which exploded etl J. J scattering death and wounds all an around The emperor and empress escaped miraculously and appeared In their thell box 1 al ot the opera a. a as calmly as If nothing had happened Thai night when all al was still at ut the Ow one of tho Iho attendants sate tine the emperor softly gliding to lo the room where the prince Imperial lay asleep The rho emperor stood beside bet the sleeping ho boy and antl bent benl 1 over o him while Willie the tears tear c coursed Ul ed down n tt his Ills race face as he looked at ul the Iho child then ihen ll ho lie slipped back to lo his own room as nS n as he hI had hall com conic come From that day the terror of sudden death la lay on him limit heavily |