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THE SUNDAY PEE: OMAHA, JULY 0, 1922.
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Horrible Crime
Series Bammles
French Police
Frunre in Thron of Iropural
lelfd Outlawry Scientist.1
Attribute K ill uigto Nerve
Wrecked 1'ityi-hopathici.
By HERBERT M. DAVIDSON.
Paris. July H France i in the
throe of an unparalleled epidemic of
crime.
"(.'rime wave" doc. n't begin to de
kcnbe the situation. It is an after
the war condition that clings and
dings.
It is a genuine "epidemic," because
even the police and, of course, physi
cian and scientists realize that most
crimes especially the ort that are
being committed here every dav now
are of psychopathic origin. Nerve
shot to piecei by war or economic
pressure or modern "speed" are the
chirf cauife of the horror-irime.
The horror-crime is a crime in
which the person w'ho commits it
wantonly destroys life or property
for the seeming; purpose of destroy
in;; it and attempts to do a job at
once thoroiiKh and picturesque. It
has been prevalent all over the world
since the war, and France has had
its full share of it.
To most uninformed persons it
will not come as a shock to learn
that 1'avi is a crime center. Faris
to many Americans implies Apaches
and "garroters" and Arsene Lupin.
On the contrary, Tans, before the
war, was a city of comparative safety
and jtood conduct. Immoral in snots,
but criminal no more than elsewhere.
Now, in spite of its efficient police
force, it is a constant source of horror-crime
stories, and the country
surrounding is no loss prolific of
them.
"Dope" Causes Crime.
Importation of cocaine from Ger
many, impossible absolutely to pre
vent, is held to be one cause of the
crime epidemic. Dope, as is well
known, may cause horror-crime as
easily as loss of mental control.
Many stories of cocaine smuggling
are doubtless mere anti-German pro
paganda, but there must be a basis
of truth in the point made by French
writers that since cocaine is known
to be manufactured in Darmstadt
and elsewhere on the Rhine the
amount of dope that at present is
consumed in France must come from
somewhere and lience probably
conies, in hatbands, cane-handles, or
false-bottomed satchels, across the
border from Germany.
Knowledge of the effect of nervous
diseases and of the dope habit on
the horror-crime has led to the pro
posal to build a criminal hospital in
Paris to take care of what used to be
called the "criminally insane" and
are now more accurately known as
the "criminally psychopathic."
Meanwhile, day after day, French
Newspapers carry one horror-crime
story after another. These stories
are not "played" the way American
dailies play crime stories. Most of
them begin at the beginning of the
story and tell through to the end
with the crime in the last paragraph.
Week's Crime Record.
Here's a week's record, picked at
random from the Paris press, a week
of sordid horror and terriffic life
crises yet only a week lik- other
weeks:
Monday A drunken plumber, in
Versailles, beats his mother nearly to
death and is in turn shot by his
brother. At Toulouse two young
Spaniards slay two octogenarians
for their money. At Nantes a wife
shoots her husband before the eyes
of their 11-year-old son. Investiga
tion continues of the mysterious
death of a little stenographer found,
probably slam, at Nogent-le-Ritron.
Two men are guillotined for strang
ling their wives. In Paris a wife,
after a damestie seen, cut her hut
Ullii's tlirot with MOT.
Tuc.day A drunkard or dope
fiend, in Auger., kill, out of hit six
.out, shocts at his wife and commit,
suicide, rroof is attained at Castres-sur-Agom
of tht identity 0( ihe Iay.
fr of what corresponds to our dis
trict attorney, who was called to his
uoor anu snot, in j'ar,,, a woman
is sentenced to tvo years in pri.ou
for stealing another woman's baby
in order to hold a iver who was
oecoming estranged. The babv sub
euuently died. In Paris
shoemaker, in a fit of insane rage,
kiiis nis mistress with one of his
sharp tools.
Wednesday Dody of a little girl is
found, near Hrest, horribly muti
lated. In I'jris a plot is discovered
to steal children and teach them to
pick pocket. In one of the Taris
department store purse suatcher
make a "getaway" with a woman's
handbag containing a necklace of
yj pearls and other valuable.
Woman Hangs Her Father.
Thursday In a mad fit of temper
a iMormanay nousewite knocks down
her aged father and then hangs him
with a rope until he is dead. At
i.e Man investigatinn 'continues into
the death of a young stenographer
loiimi iieau. alter an apparently vio
lent struggle with her assassin. In
Paris a youn man. psychopathic,
amuses himself by squirting ink from
a fountain pen filler on the white
clothes of young girls who please or
displease his fancy.
Friday Near Nice a young man
shoots his mistress and then attempts
suicide. "Maurice the Terror," of
the Paris underworld, slays "Chariot
the Killer." same address. A patient
from the American hospital at Neuil-ly-sur-Scine,
suffering from mental
disorder, escapes and run nude
tnrough the streets. In Paris a
series of hotel robberies are traced
to a crook who passed in high so
ciety as a viscount.
Saturday Crying, "I want to kill
you because I love you so much!" a
crazed young man cuts with a razor
the throat of a dancer in a Latin
quarter cafe. Three suicides by
jumping into the Seine are recorded,
and an entire series of suicides last
ing all week are reported from Tou
louse. Acid throwers appear again
in Paris. A 14-year-old boy hangs
himself.
Woman "Robin Hood" Sent
to Sanitarium by Court
Budapest, July 8. If Robin Hood
reappeared on earth today he would
be sent to a sanitarium.
This Robin Hood was a girl,
daughter of a wealthy family im
poverished by the war. She stole
from the rich and gave to the poor.
They called her "angel of the slums."
Under various names she obtained
employment as servant in the homes
of rich, but stingy families. There
she filched valuables, sold them and
gave the proceeds to needy friends.
"My conscience was numbed by
the misery I saw," she told the mag
istrate, who committed her to an in
stitution for nervous cases.
Page Diogenes!
Just Politician
Has Been Found
Honest Candidate Include
Drinks He Bought "Hoy."
in Campaign Expense
Statement.
Pittsburgh. Pa., July 8. Diogenes
might as well quit.
The honest man has been found.
When Donald D. Mangone, de
feated candidate for the republican
legislative nomination, filed his ex
pense account for the ante-primary
campaign it was revealed that Man
gone is the fellow that Diogenes
ling sought.
Mangone conducted his campaign
along the old-fashioned lines of
"treating the boys", at public "sa
loons." He and his friends walked
right in the front door, hitched one
foot up on the good old brass rail,
motioned to the genial barkcep and
turning to his friends said:
"Well, boys, what will you have?
I'm buying the drinks."
'Twa familiar language also used
in a day before the eighteenth
amendment took effect. The settings
in the liquid establishment were un
changed. It was used in one of
those few saloons still scattered
about Pittsburgh the survival of the
fittest of those who held on after
the country went dry.
The expense statement is unique
in American politics because the
erstwhile candidate frankly tetls
what he did. whose saloon he visited
and what the rounds of drinks for
friends cost him. All these things
are sworn to in the statement which
is on file at the courthouse here.
The items of expense are set out
thus in Mangone's statement:
"Treating friends at Fred Doench's
Saloon, $770.
"Treating friends at Rieffel's
saloon, $6.25.
"Treating friends at Bonnar's
saloon, $5.85.
"Pavine for 10 games at George
Schaffnit's bowling alley and treat
ing to 20 drinks of grape juice at
5 cents a drink, $4.
"Treating friends at Griffith's
saloon, $4.50.
"Treating s friends at Crowley'
saloon, $7.45.
"Treating friends at Hayduk's
saloon, $7.75.
"Treating friends at Defkowitz's
drug store, ?4.50."
The only thing Mangone is silent
about in his expense statement is as
to what the boys had when he was
treating them at the saloons. The
public can think just what it pleases
about the matter as far as Mangone
is concerned.
Anyhow, Mangone s expenses
totaled $313.95, and though he was
honest, he was defeated.
Spence Auto Co.
Announces
The Opening of Garage No. 2
2556-58-60-62-64 Leavenworth Street
(Formerly Occupied by Universal Motor Co.)
Our garage is strictly modem, fireproof, and will accommodate
over 350 automobiles. The main floor will be devoted to storage
of cars by day, week or month, at reasonable rates.
Our Service Department, on second floor, is well equipped
with modern tools and machinery to do a good job, do it quickly,
and at a moderate price.
Our mechanics are first-class, experienced workmen. We
carry a complete line of accessories and replacement parts.
SPENCE GARAGES
No. 1, Middle Stat Garage, 2026-28 Farnam St.
Phone JAckson 4102
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The Overland at $550 gives you
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That's why Overlands are being
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Annual Festival Is
Staged at Montreux
Montrenx, July 8. Montreux was
engaU during the annual Karcissus
festival, uhich took place this year
with unusual brilliancy- Thousands
of people flocked to the Tcarl oi
Lake Leman" to see tht flower corco,
which consisted of a procession beau
tiful narcissus-trimmed vehicles, and
take pirt in th confetti battle which
raged all over tht place and resulted
in a layer of the rainbow-colored
snips of paper almost foot deep.
The festival play, composed by th
Genevan, Jacques Dk'roe. for his
neighbor in Momreux. was oird
a brilliant success, and the Venetian
night, with its illuminated boats on
the lake and illuminated riiiicular
railways climbing the heights to
hotels biasing with lights at the top.
was a sight of unparalleled beauty.
Not a room was to be had in Mon
treux the second day, and many
Americans who had come to the fr
ti vat had to erk quarters in Clarens.
Territct and Cliou.
The ssa.on is on in Switfcrlaml.
and hundreds of Americans arc
escaping from the plains of swelter
iug Europe into the cooling heights
of the Swiss Alps.
Girl Hi. le. Hortrl.Mik 30
Mile tu SjM'llin Match
Thcrniopolis, Wyo., July 4 "Stick,
to-it-iveuess" that rivals tht folk
story of Holland's boy hero wluoe
periteiii'e in holding his finger in a
hole in the dike until help came-
thereby saving his country lus a
modem iMtmuri'drl in 1'rtna l.tui.
Upper 1'iit tun wood creek ranch gul,
wlu) rude .it) iiulrs on lini.ih.uk tu
uphold the I'ppcr CuiionwoodV rep
utation in a county spelling con tot
in this city,
Mis Lewis started at 5 in the
morning and mile until 1 .it) p. tu. to
enter the match, .
Wmiuiu Ontciiariaii Comet
tu Defense of I'Iaifr
Springfield, HI. July. K-ll tht
fii lti mriit of 11.' year is worth any.
thing, the dappers of today art not
lite terrible brings thry are some
time trpieented to be.
In tact, II.' years ( life say the
mtuh-tUmlrred luting lady of the
piomt is "jut shout tight."
Mi Sarah Puny, horn in Kngland
in IKItl, is spiaking:
"The llappris' dieirs are a little
lion, but I gues they are pretty
good gills about as good as the
girls evrr were."
Mrs. Duffy came to America wlun
she was a little girl. The p"
took ihiee mouths. Her husband,
I'liouus, died JO years ago. She at.
tributes hr longevity to "just natural
living" Asktd lor a itason, she re
plied :
"Oh, nothing just worked! I al.
ways did eat what 1 wanted.
MUioric Carvings Are
Iteturueil to Cathedral
1'aris, July larved woodwoik
from the eathrdial of Kheims. sent
to l-'ugland at tht beginning of the
bombardment of the city by the Get.
mans, has brrii returned to Kheims.
The carvings art wieHiuuMy valuable.
ANNOUNCEMENT
In obeying a desire to render the highest possible
service to motorists, we have accepted the dealership of
Franklin Motor Cars in Omaha and vicinity. The
present and future motoring public, we are confident,
will agree that the sale of such fine cars as the Franklin
will prove rich in consequent good-will for our
organization.
MOTORISTS today demand full value in
service, for every dollar expended for
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will go toward meeting their motoring
requirements.
' From the start the present period of care
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the Franklin organization by a remarkable
sales record. More Franklin cars were deliv
ered into the hands of customers in May than
during any previous month in the history of
the Franklin car, running back twenty years.
Production of Franklin cars during the month
of June will aggregate 1,500, or at the rate of
18,000 cars per year.
These splendid sales indicate that Frank
lin performance is equal to the most rigid
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We feel mighty happy in having been
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a long period we believe we can convince you,
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market.
20 miles to the gallon of gasoline
12,500 miles to the set of tires
50 slower yearly depreciation
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A factory service expert has been sent to Omaha and invites
every Franklin owner in this territory to bring his car to our
service station for inspection. Telephone or write for appoint
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2060 and 2062 Farnam Street
Phone AT lantic 746
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