| Show Strange Luck or Some Criminals Edward who has Just had a narrow escape from being shot eliot ought to take his place in Sn the tho novel of the future among the tho Jack Sheppards and Dick of story Ho has twice escaped from French prisons on the thelast thelast last occasion from ruin the tho aptly named Devils island iland where Dreyfus spent tome some frightful years and whence escape es escape es- es cape seemed impossible so securely protected does tills this inferno seem seem seem-on on one side by the ocean and andon andon on tho other oilier 1 by the deadly swamps of the mainland Guerin however made his hla escape not from the island only but from the tho two convicts who accompanied accorn- accorn him who quarreled with him and who would but for oi lila his resolution and a revolver have murdered him says the Chicago Tribune Drawing the revolver of which he had In way become possessed he lie forced tile tho thomen men to do all the tho rowing in tile the little boat they had built together till they reached land S Shero hero they separated and Guerin found his way to Chicago after enduring enduring en en- during incredible hardships and making mak in ing miraculous escapes Finding Chicago Chi cago too no hot to hold him he made his way to England but was arrested In Leeds at the Instance o of the French government who demanded his hia extra extra- dillon After more than a years year's j i In Brixton jail the order of or his extradition was quashed the tho other I Iday da day on time ground that he was a Brit Brit- sli subject and Querin found himself bimel a free fre man to his own bewilderment He lie stood for sonic some minutes and amid j and then said to his solicitor who was leading him him away Lot Let me go for a moment moment Jet let me go I Iam Iam am free free free-free free What shall I do I must think a a. bit I must think I will go for a ride somewhere on an bu bus and conic come back to you later This ho he was enabled to do by the present of a dollar thrust into his hand I by a sympathizing bystander Career ol L Cartouche Time The quarrel between and lila his two convict companions recalls a astory astory story of that incomparable scoundrel I Cartouche After he and two confederates con n federates had hold up nil all the passengers ers era on a packet boat and robbed them of or everything they adjourned to a Li quiet spot to divide divide the spoils I 1 say whispered whimpered Cartouche to ono one of time tho two robbers there isn't much after nil all when divided oy ny three eh elm If your pistol should go oft off by fled acci accident lent dent in the neighborhood of Adolphs Adolph's ear there would bo be something worth worthwhile worthwhile while for each of us mis Pierre on this hint blew Adolphs Adolph's brains out to the tho virtuous Indignation of Cartouche he tue cried murder your comrade coma com rade for a few iv louis lommis Die DIo dog as you deserve blowing Pierres Pierre's brains out antI and thus appropriating all the spoils In tit ills hIs Romances of Real Life Leigh Hunt recalls an unconscionable swindle of which a London halter balcer was tIme the victim A A. lodger whom he had tak n in ill had Informed the tho baker that lie hO came caine from froni Danbury Banbury Banbury Why then you must know of the great Mr Mi I am Air Mr Wickham WIcK WIcK- ham hain replied time the lodger I 1 have come comae up iii to London Incognito In order to arrest a merchant who owes me a large sum of money and who is about to abscond The baker who had In Imi his boyhood trout from Danbury Banbury was as overwhelmed by the honor of having such a lodger and yet Mt more overwhelmed over over- whelmed by the condescension of the great Mr borrowing 1000 from him him until hits his luggage which had strayed cAme cAmo to hand Shortly after after- the great Mr was Struck down with a amId and mortal Illness and the anxious baker called in doctors and nurses to attend upon him When death was vas imminent the great Mr Mi had a clergyman called from whom he lie received the holy com coin munion with his most unctuous devotion devo tion and when he hail had thus settled his spiritual account ho he proceeded to ease Ills his mind of his last cares by making a will in which he left the bulk of his vast A fortune to the tho faithful baker After Atter Af At- ter his death the baker ordered the most mon costly coffin and arranged for the most moat sumptuous funeral Inviting to it among others time the great Mr Wickham's Wick Wick- hums hams lawyer That gentleman lost not nota n a moment In calling upon the baker to ask what the Invitation meant Why said satti the he lawyer I I have had a letter by this mornings morning's post from Mr Wick Wick- ham You must have been swindled When the baker had quite assured himself that ho lie had been leen swindled ho tumbled the body of the impostor out of if the costly on the floor In Iii his fury and had him burled buried like ilke a dog in iii nn no obscure corner of ot St. St Clements Clement's churchyard A lS Striking Story lIe Here Is a striking story of detection anti anil conviction of guilt from n a book with the tilO amazing title Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Late Lato governor of Land Guard Port Fort anti and Unfortunately Unfortunately Un Un- fortunately Father to eGorge Touchet Baron Bumon Audley This Philip Thick Thick- nesses nesse's father ln a- a aFord Ford was seat pent for as n a solicitor b. by a foreign minister LI to trace the tho villain who had hod robbed him by forgery of a large sum of mon men ey cl Ford perceiving that tho spellIng spoil spell leg Ing on the forged notes was AVIS not only but phonetic according to a foreigners foreigner's mispronunciation suspected suspect suspect- ed cU the ministers minister's secretary of the for for- gary gery Yet it was with ii the secretary that he be wa was asked to concert measures for the tho detection of the criminal We should advertise In all the pa- pa ners a reward for tile the discovery of the man mail suggested Ford Certainly acquiesced the secreta secretary secre secre- tary- tary ta ry ryLet Let us see Suppose we insert an advertisement of said Ford slowly lowly composing an advertisement In lU which he took tonk care to Insert ovary every misspelled misspelled mis mis- spelled word In the forged notes That would do 10 admirably assented assent assent- ed Cd thE secretary Would you mind mattel writing It out as I have ha forgotten my spectacles said Fe Ford ed Save Si Him ilium The rue secretary accordingly wrote the out at Fords Forda dictation misspelling the test words precisely as they hind had lice been misspelled in Iii the forged notes Ford took tile the advertisement away inserted It in all time tho newspapers and immediately after its appearance called again to see seo the secretary Well asked the tho secretary have you found the tho man I I have Yes Yea Who Is lie he thundered Ford clapping his hand violently upon the secretary's knee The secretary without with with- out omit asking for proofs without proofs without utterIng utter utter- log Ing a single word word started started up dashed to time the open window flung himself out olit and was impaled upon the iron railings rail rail- logs ings before the door The elite chief evidence against John Connor Con Con- not nor for the murder of a man in Cork corl was the accused's hat which was found beside the corpse The policeman police man Juan who found the hat was cross ex thus by liy Daniel OConnell O'Connell You swear the hat now in my hand handis I is th the identical hat you ou found beside the body of the tue murdered man he asked the policeman I do 10 You tt lo to i be the prisoners prisoner's lint hat I Ido 1 do You knew it from the name Inside In side said OConnell O'Connell looking Into the S hat and proceeding to spoil spell slowly n h r. o 1 did liti replied replied re re- plied the policeman Now ow rny ny lord hoid and gentlemen of see or yourselves how PlUCk much this mans man's oath is worth said aid OConnell O'Connell handing up ui the hat to the Judge Theres no name at mill all inside the hat The prisoner Avon |
