A NOTED HIGHWAYMAN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10602, 30 April 1896, Page 3

A NOTED HIGHWAYMAN.

♦ CtoIUDE Doval, who was executed at .Tyburn, tt the most dramatic Genre we have of celebrated highwaymen. Ihe Dink Turniu who lode the famous Black Bess from liondon to York is an altoßether common fflnu to the graceful Frenchman who took to roa ,V, M * profession, nnd made his career more Jifee a chapter of romance, dancing wtau«,t« on HounsloTr Heath with fair jnstocrets, and then lightly returning them their gem* and jewellery— never committing Biariier. bat confining himself to " Robbery under Arms," but under very different cirjsumßtatices to Captain S tarlii>ht, who adapted himself iv Rolf Boldrewood's novel to th« peculiar circumstances of Australian, life in toe bush. There is some peculiar attractiveness about fJlnnde Daval, who dressed like a gentleman, *nd noted his part without the meanness, the recklessness of human life, and with a Sfong dofianco under many disguises of the toolice, under that monster of vileness, Jonathan Wild. ■ The gay light-herartedness with which ho yrent to the scnffold was all ot a piece with bis Ufa on the. road, and although it ia Pwlwj!' wroni? to have sympathy with one Who did not reverence the Uwa of meum and teum, and who justly met a disgraceful death as one of the outlaws of society, the Impossibility to resist tha attractiveness of bis -character is just the same as the impossibility not to r.dinire the quality of Vanity FaTr Cißnrottes. The mmc they are ■moked the iuoco they are liked, and they deserve the B}>'. e ndid reputation they hare •eCOred by all judges of quality.