KIDNAPPED AND ROBBED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143770, 19 April 1912, Page 7

KIDNAPPED AND ROBBED.

PARISIAN SOCIETY BELLE’S ADVENTURE.

The series of crimes which has spread a red wave over Paris was added to this week by the daring robbery of a woman prominent in French society (says a London paper last mouth). Sho went to a theatre alone. After the performance sho took a taxi-cab to her home, giving the chauffeur her address. On the way the driver stopped the automobile, left his seat, opened tlie cab door and said ho did not understand the address, being a little deaf. Ho put his head quite close to his faro as she repeated the name of her street and the number of her house. The woman smelt a peculiar odor as the man closed the door, and then felt a strong sense of drowsiness and illness with which she tried vainly to struggle. The next she remembers she was in a deserted part of the Bois de Boulogne surrounded by five murderous looking Apaches who had just finished robbing her of her money, jewels, and even her stables. They threatened her with death if she gave an alarm. Frightened nearly to the point of fainting, and weak from the drug that had been administered to her, she begged to he taken where she could at least see an exit gate of the Bois, and asked the robbers to leave her money enough to pay for a. carriage to take her home. But the callous higands loft her in the middle of the park, and she was forced to walk a long distance through the woods in evening dress and without fum. More dead than alive she reached her home near morning, and immediately fell ill from exposure. No trace of the robbers has been found. A double crime typical of the desperate character of the deeds of violence. accounts of which now fill columns of the Paris newspapers, was revealed this week when a labouring man foot in the street a woman with whom he had quarrelled. He gave himself up to the police. A search of his room disclosed the body of another woman who had been murdered 48 hours before. After denying that he know this second victim, the prisoner has confessed that he murdered the woman by strangling her because after he had lured her to his room she refused to disclose the address of the man’s common law wife. It is now learned that the murderer made a mistake in the ease of his first victim.