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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
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His Escape From Devil's
Island, Has Hard Time At
tempting to Live Honestly.
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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.- - ! - -
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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
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MAYOR PLAYS POKER
WITH SIX CARD HAND
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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
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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
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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
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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. .
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Is the bride of David Cecil Bingham, stepson' of the former : Mrs.
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, was made nota'jle by the act that It assumed the functions of a
military affair,' stalwart guardsmen lining the aisles of the chapel
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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