The Jersey Lily.
Paris, March 23. Before returning to London Mrs Lily Do Cathe and her daughter Miss Langtry, were compelled to appear in a police court to obtain the release of their courier, who had been locked up under comical circumstances. The Jersey Lily’s attendant having soon his mistresses safely to their hotel, went out again to do some Paris sight-seeing on his own hook. Midnight found him bibulously wandering in dangerous quarters. Policemen, sizing up the courier as a foreigner, advised him to regain the less infested streets but the Englishman boasted that he was a match for any dozen Frenchmen.
“Besides,” said he, flourishing a revolver, “ I never go unarmed—see I” Thereupon the officer promptly arrested him for carrying concealed weapons. The prisoner, resisting, received a thrashing which must have convinced him that occasionally French muscle overmatched the English. The Jersey Lily postponed her departure for three days to secure the man’s release and paid his 100 francs fine. Mrs De Bathe said she had ordered more than thirty drosses. She will return here in a fortnight to try them on.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 94, 30 April 1901, Page 3
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184The Jersey Lily. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 94, 30 April 1901, Page 3
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