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About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1912)
;u;:day journal, fortlaad. J RifcriTisd Thief Much Persecuted Berlin '! cJ i -iro DcrJ fcr French Officers lis J ( icL ..'iu OF EX-CROOK i;i mm beset Emperor and Empress of Germany With Three of Their Grandsons BESLIil RESEIIIS FAME OF BOS II King Gcorgi Manages to'Fir.d Titv.z to S::::!j sore its Eddie Guerin, Notoricajs for Night Life Spreads With Ven geance in German' Capital and "The Lid'lLong Since Has Been Lost. v . His Escape From Devil's Island, Has Hard Time At tempting to Live Honestly. THE ' OREGON rJAUGHTY PLACE 1 'v. By Ed U Keel i (United PreM l4 Wire. Jxmdon, March 2. The way of 'the ex crook In England is hard. If you doubt ,it. go to the little tobacco .and candy ' store In the east end of London, kept 'by a man who calla himself 'Bertram Morton," and ask Mm. j "Morton" is Eddie Guerin, who, sev en years ago, startled the world by his j sensational escape from Devil's island, I the lonely, fever ridden and shark sen- tlneled spot of land oft the northern coast of South America which for so : many years was the Bcene of Captain - Ureyfus' martyrdom. Since then Guerin has been trying to live straight; but hi : will tell you that society has conspired against him, and you will almost bellevs i iu Acting on the theory of ones a crook, J always a crook, Scotland Tard has been dogging him. - His former associates of 'j the underworld have , turned their Lands against him, and his every act ; that could be construed in the least degree suspicious has been reported -to . the authorities. 1 r , , '4 If Guerln's protestations of; leading an , honest life were untrue, it seems that he would have been trapped before this, Scotland Yard thought It had him recent ly. Detectives who had trailed him to Glasgow where he had gone to sell somt moving picture films, which s business he has taken up as a side line, arrested Guerin on the charge of loitering about the Central Station hotel In that city "with intent to steal." But the testi mony didn't hold water. After hearing Cuerin's story, the magistrate promptly dismissed him; The ex-crook, did not try to gloss over his past, but he sue ceeded in persuading the court that he was sincere in his efforts to live It down. - "Do not permit my previous bad rep utation to weigh with you," he pleaded. 1 "Don't turft nie baek. 7 This means so much to me. I have .found It very hard to reform; do not undo It all. I chal lenge Scotland Yard to prove that I have been associating with a single sus picious character sines my escape." So Guerin is back at his little shop, and has again taken up the struggle with Scotland Yard still watching him. Guerin, in company with the notorious "Chicago- May,' had already -achieved considerable fame as an international crook, when he was arrested In 1901 for burglarising the American Express com pany's office in Paris. Condemned to penal servitude, he endured the miseries of Devil's Island until 1905, when, with two other convicts, he succeeded in es caping by night irt a dug out So rough was the sea that one of his companions while standing up to look for the coast line, lost his balance and fell overboard. A shark devoured the unfortunate man before Guerin could attempt his res cue. Reaching Dutch Guiana, GuerJn , , and the other convict lived in the fot eet for six weeks, then, half starved, . made their way to Georgetown where Guerin found a friend who supplied him with funds with which to travel to New York... . y . .. The ex-convict's troubles in his de termination to reform, began shortly after he reached London, in 1906 "Chi cago May,"' whose love for Guerin had cooled, happened to run across him in the street and promptly betrayed him to " the police. In the subsequent extradl- tion proceedings, Guerin proved that he. was an English subject and on June 14, 1907, he was released. ' " - The very next evening, while he was . standing at. a corner of .Russell Square, a cab drove up and a man leaped out and fired several shots, one of which struck Guerin in the foot. The assailant was 1 "Dutch Gus'' Smith, a former companion, in the Underworld, who had never for given Guerin for Winning " "Chicago . May" away front him. Both Smith and the woman, who had been trailing Guer v In in the cab ail evening, were arrested and speedily convicted of attempted murder. "Dutch Gub" was sent up for life, and "Chicago May" for 15 years. Guerin ascribes most of his subse quent difficulties with Scotland Yard to the friends of this pair. "Chicago May," whose real name is May Churchill, Is one of the most notorious female criminals of Europe. Strikingly beauti ful, her favorite pursuit was blackmail, . and it is said that she drove several of her victims to suicide. : She was .re . g'arded as a sort of quoen of the under ' world, and there are any number of her miserable subjects w ho are eager now to :l win her favor y "getting" Guerin. ; . There are about 180,000 members of the four railway men's unions in Eng land, and there Is a movement on foot to unite these organizations.- - ! - - ft Submarine Sunk in The nrltlsh submarine A3, which w Wight..,,',. Thirteen , mpnl 1 un occurred off Princess Shoal, w 1 i : AtSA-: 1 I l, t i lJ , , i? ' ' l ; WhV '-.5- v ... h .; I 4, A ' I ' ' v ( ..... . ... . (. t J 1 : . :Vv.: I.;,.;':..:' ;i v . ....:-,',!,.,... . ,.. ' " ; "z v. , - ' A , , "-VIA , , . v ' - - ' v. a " . " " A . A v x wA-A' - iv A A rryfs$i .-.vA:.. i A a j) " r,ik ,-i'k ismM 1 ft v-?.V- j VX' Tr 1 The three" grandsons of the emperorxand empress of Germany, shown In1 the above picture, reproduced from " a photograph taken In' Berlin recently, are the three sons of the crown prince. The eldest; Prince Wil liam, is nestling against the kaiser; the second, Prince Ludwig, is In the big chair; the youngest, Prince Hubertus, Is on the Kaiserln's arm. ., -A. ', ' " . MAYOR PLAYS POKER WITH SIX CARD HAND - tBy the Internttloml Hrw flervlre.) Paris, March 2.- The mayor of Setif, LM. . Scab, whom ttie- newspapers de scribe as a millionaire, has been con victed for cheating at poker at a club in that town. The Correctional Tribunal acquitted him, but the complainant," M. Lefage, a municipal councillor of Setif, carried the cause to the court of appeal, and the mayor has been ordered to. pay a fine of 1200. Though It Is said that the trickery adopted by the mayor was simple, his companions were a long time in finding it oot. At length one of the flayers, be coming suspicious at the mayor's ex traordinary run of luck, made the dis covery that he dealt himself six cards instead of five. He got rid of the ex tra card at the draw, and somehow managed to get a good hand. Maitre Henri Hesse, , the -deputy for the Charcnte, one of ; the counsel for the defense, explained to an interviewer that the acquittal in the first instance was brought about because the judges took the view that there was no cheat ing unless the player managed to get all the chances in his favor. Collision WitH Gunboat as sunk ttTaaJllHiim .with the Britis manant-taro TTfflLnrsreitsbea"a!B t law the ElWatad suhmarma Al ia By George Dufresne. . ny the Inlernatlonwl Nes Horloe.) Paris, March 2. -The minister of war has performed an act of great courage In abolishing the reign of terror In the French army. ' I presume no one ran accuse the Socialist Mlllerand of being a reactionary, He 'is not the sort pf man to smooth the path for Caesar. But, . by being nominated . minister of war, It was In his power to put an end to . what he called yejrs ago "a system of Infamy." . , v For the first time ' since i tKe days of the notorious General Andre, French officers are protected from secret in formers and secret denunciations. No longer, are their careers to be ruined by lying and treacherous statements made in the dark. In Justification the Combes ministry assorted the necessity of being assured of the Republican sen timents of the -men . placed In com mand. That was a perfectly legitimate aim, if It had been carried out legiU- matvly. But the prefects abused the situation by employing spies of objec tionable character to pry into the pri vate lives of officers and their fami lies, without the victims being allowed to control or . to- check- the 'statements made about them. The : officer who went to church, or .whose wife went to church, not a black mark. A chance remark let drop over the, mess tahl-s would be quite enough fbr promotion h gunboat Hazard of f the Isle " of hff "TigirounWreuTrhecldnT nt down with loss vt 13 lives borne 5 to be fctopped, or orders received for an exchange of regiment. M. Mlllerand does not ; intend to . let the officials of hs department disobey his circular. Under secretaries are only too Inclined to-Ignore the will of the minister. This time they have to obev. ff any cause be shown to proceed against an oineer the minister will take the matter, into his own hands. Daylight Crimes the Fashion. Audacipus crimes commlttetl In broad daylight have become quite the fash ion. There are said to be 20,000 Apachos In Paris alone, every one of them, with revolver and the soul of hand it Human life Is- thought as little of by them as men-at-arms in the early mid dle ages.' Their one aim In life Is booty, and - they turn up in the most unexpected manner.- -Old-fashioned thieves generally i made It a nolnt to operate only wheii there was no on! about, but the Apache seems to tk delight in performing his exploits before me puDiic, as though It were a duel. The life and fire insurnnce eomnanles now append to . their receipts an invi tation to tiouseholders to insure- them selves against robbery. I was told on mine this week that "everybody was constantly menaced by theft," and that op one returned home without the thought that his apartment had been sacked." Of course this is a bit ex aggerated, or how would the company entice business? But It shows, all the fame, to what a pitch things are grow Ing. It is some comfort to know that the police use their weapons freely now and that, every time an Apacne Is caught redhanded he is. lynched by the crowd, Movement for Cheap Dwellings. Twq French deputies, M.. Sembat, a Unified Socialist, and M. Cheron. a Rad ical Socialist, havo introduced a bill in the. chamber to enable Communes to obtain loans from the tte for the construction of cheao dwelling The "Communes will be empowered to let the dwellings so constructed or to offer easy terms' of purchase to the tenants, : :j .. .... The rent will be fixed bv tha mnniX pal council, subject to 4he approvat of mo minister or -me interior, and will, of course, be sufficient to make the scheme self-supporting, so that no in creased burdens to the rate-payer shall result. , - The loans will be made by the national pension iuna. . . J" The telegcoe..wlth "which Galileo dls- coverea tne satelites of Jupiter in 1610 is careiuny preserved, still in service. -We condition, in a Florence museum s By Karl von Wiegand. A . ' l'nited Preif LMwd Vlre. - Berlin,-March 2. 5heoubtul fame of being the "gayest capital" in Eu rope is at last being resented by. Ber lin. The average German is an ardent believer In ' personal - liberty but when his home city is called "naughtier than Paris" he begins tu wonder if it Is not time to call a halt. Everyone admits there isn't even the shadow of a lid In Berlin.. The spread of "night life" has been so rapid that its Invasion of. the fashionable residen tial districts is beginning to rouse pro tests. ' Until PWBlttlv. nllrl-it - Ufa In P.oi-1'n was confined to Unter den Linden, Fried- erich strasse and adjacent streets. Then it spread to Potsdamer street and to Nollendorf Plats in Schoeneberg imme diately around the American church, where nights, particularly Saturday and Sunday, are, made hideous until 4 o'clock In the morning. - Next it extended to Bayerischer Plats In the heart of the American colony and now it has seized upon F.urfurstendam, in the fashionable residence district of . Charlottenburg, This is one of the most beautlfu avenues In the city. On it are located many of the legations, and the homes of the city's wealthiest residents. Cafes catering to the exclusive circles and keeping open until the wee ama' hours have been opened along' this thoroughfare and do a most profitable business. Bitter com plaint is made that an unescorted wom an can not venture out even early In the evening along this avenue without being insulted. The fondness for ca rousing has become so great that it is necessary to "lock up" the servant girls in order to keep ithem In the house at night Tha$ is, the front door, as re quired by the police, Is locked at 10 o'clock and the keys are hidden so the servants cannot find them after the family retires. One hears much, of "police oppressed" Germany. There Is such a long list of "Verboten1 (forbidden) that one won ders how the people can enjoy them selves at all. But once you are prop erly entered In the, police register and you do not try to dodge :your income, church and other taxes, you have ' a freedom of action that would not be tolerated In American cities. Germans are inclined to look upon America's claims for better public mor als and -stricter city-government -as hypocrisy. And, it must be admitted, that there is some excuse for this de cision Judging from the reckless abandon With which some of the Americans who come here, throw themselves Into the gay life of the city. Others, however, are disgusted with the. wide open town and have written fathers and mothers at home, advising them not, to send their, sons and daughters, unprotected, to Berlin to pursue their studies. Breaking Relations With Vatican. (United r-reiu teiaed TV Ire.) Rome, March 3. During the past year the diplomatic corps accredited to the Vatican has been reduced by the discontinuing of diplomatic relations with two more countries. These were Portugal and Uruguay, although the re lations with the former country have not as yet been formally-severed. Dur ing the. past. five years five other coun tries have recalled their ministers to the Holy SeeFrance, Cuba, , Ecuador, Honduras and Haytt. . Her Wedding Brilliant v... . ... X ' y .vty ... X ' -' i t 'i y u' ' 1 J 1 i A " - " v A - " ' uvA-----LA,l . '-SWiMW .A . M : 'A f.A ' : 't - y : . 1, "- Lady Rosabelle St. Clair. Erskihe, daughter of -the Earl 'of Rosslyn,.,who Is the bride of David Cecil Bingham, stepson' of the former : Mrs. --hannceyrheddlngTWarthCT , was made nota'jle by the act that It assumed the functions of a military affair,' stalwart guardsmen lining the aisles of the chapel and the Guard's band providing the'musia" '; V 11 :''.' . AA"'v- A .A:. A! A.A'A '.JvAV A A This picture shows King George, smiling;. The British monarch take himself very seriously and a; smile is a very rare occurrence. The photograph of the English monarch was taken at Malta while the king and his consort were on their return' journey from the Indian durbar ceremonies. ' ITALIAN MAIDENS SEND " SOLDIER LOVERS IN MOTION PICTURES By Henry . Wood. . (United Preit teaied Wire.) Rome, March 2. It has remained for an Italian with an Inventive turn of mind to ! conceive the Idea of sending kisses by moving picture films. lie has put the plan Into operation on a big scale and the company which he repre sents Is coining money among the sol diers at the front In Tripoli. f y Several weeks, a cinematograph firm sent a number of machines and operat ors to Tripoli.' The usual melodramatic .scenes were 'exhibited but they failed to make much or a hit. Even pictures of the soldiers embarking for the front did not interest ' the Italian - warriors. They had enough melodrama in fighting with the Arabs and theycared nothing for photographs of soldiers. The mov- London Social Event - - A , ' ....... v; ' l Ing picture operators did not take Jn enough money to pay for their .board. The situation was becoming desperate. Finally Giuseppe Laguardla conceived an idea. He advertised in the news papers that all young women who had sweethearts at the . front might come 4 down to the firm's studio and have their vomica ocnt to iripou tree or cnarge. It was an opportunity not to be overlooked. Hundreds Of pretty maids posed before the camera, waving their hands and throwing kisses. After Rome's sweetheart supply had been ex hausted,- photographer went to Naples and ether large cities where similar programs were carried out WJien these films arrived at Tripoli, therewas a wild rush for admission. Many of the soldiers recognised faces of loved ones at home .and whenever they become homesick, which, is about every day as the Italian is not over sealous about fighting away from home in a desert country,; a trip is made to the , moving picture theatre, w Officers say that Laguardla's idea has been a benefit to the Vheer-up the soldiers and has a ten dency to weaken their desire for strong drink. , ., Great Art exposition planned. A grand exposition of -Christian art is being considered by the Vatican aa one of the features of the ceremonies to be. held this year to commemorate -the sixteenth hundredth anniversary of Constantino's victory over Massenzio find tli lilfSnHnH r, 9 nV.U,l..l... .... religion of the -greater part ' of the civilized world. . All of the Vatican's ' treasures ; will probably be placed, on public view, and contributions will also be-sent from the .majority of the Catho lic churches and cathedrals of Europe, where much of the early Christian art and relics are preserved. . , -; . It has not beenv. definitely! decided whether to erect a gigantic monument to "Christ the Victor," but it is gen erally believed that the suggestion will , be approved. If it Is, contributions will be; asked from all Catholics .of the world and the cornerstone of the mon ument will probably be laid as one of the features of the exposition. The church has called to its eld the most famous of its laymen in making plans for. the celebration; Prince Doiiv Marchantonlo Colonna, who occupice the highest position among the laity, being the persona assistant of the pope, has been made . honorary : president of the superior council, which Is In charge. The prince,; however, Is seriously ill at the present time, and his duties are be ing looked after by prince 0. Mario Chlgi, another famous layman. Cardi nals and other distinguished prelates are also assisting and it is expected tlmt the celebration will attract visit ors from all quarters of the globe. CLOUDBURST CLAIMS CARAVAN IN MOROCCO ',-.gY:;t.-.'. . , '.o., I, (Publlnhorii' VreH Iffinfrt Wlrc v : . Tangier, March 0. Twelve travelers and 2S horses, forming a caravan, were overwhelmed and drowned while passing between Tangier and Arcila, in Morocco. For some time the weather in the in terior has been extremely bad. While ? crossing the tiver Hexra-el-Zaxlf the caravan " was caught in a terrible tempest..- There -was a sudden cloudburst, torrents of water rushing down from the mountains.- The unhappy travelers had not time to save them selves, and they , all perished, Shortly afterwards the whole region was In vaded by the waters. . The floods have, spread everywhere,, and all the crops have been destroyed. The irresistible ...... r-iiiii ine, ana carried along with them dead animals anrt the ruins of dwellings. In many otherr egions in Mffrocco the same nor rlble picture of ruin and desolation bu uueu jcyea ieu, . -,,
