A NOTED HIGHWAYMAN.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8618, 23 December 1896, Page 2

A NOTED HIGHWAYMAN.

Cupdk Duval,' who .was executed at , Tvlmni. is the most dramatic figure we have " oi celebrated highwaymen. The Dick TorIlin who ioilr the f,imnu3 Black Bess from London to York' is an altogether common, mati to the graceful Frenchman who took to the road as a profession, and made his carjffir more like a chapter of lomance, dancing minuets on Hon ...ow He.ith' with fair uisiocrats.and then lightly returning them 'liuiVgenis and jwillery—never committing ■mrder, hut confining himself to " Robbery •imlcr ArmiV but very different circumstances to Captaiu Starlight, who adapted v himself iu Roll* Boldrewood's novel to the • peculiar, circumstances of Australian life in th,* hush. '•' • There is some peculiar attractiveness abcafc ■ uluude Duval, who dressed like a v uitl acted his pirt withoaS the meanness, ■ the recklessness of human life, and with a,! i.mi; deli.uice under many disguises of the oiilice, iimler that .monster of vllenesa, lonathaii Wild. :,,:•;. The g;iy li^lithtartednesa> with-which he vent, tii the scaffold was all of a piece, with .lis life on the road, and although it) !fi■•' perhaps "wrong to have sympathy with 086 who did not reverence the laws of menm and 'a tcum, and who justly met' a disgraceful;: ' lenth as one of the outlaws of'society, the impossibility to resist the attractiveness of his ,cli!ii.inter is just the same as the iraposuihiiitv not to admire the quality of Vanity F..11 Cigarettes. The more they aw imoked the more they are liked, and they.; deserve the splendid reputation they havf f ecured by all judges of quality, -. r ':; -.