AT THE POINT OF A REVOLVER.

Evening Star, Issue 14932, 19 July 1912, Page 6

AT THE POINT OF A REVOLVER.

—, *—_„— ADVENTURE AT AN HOTEL. To be followed into one's hotel and then to be asked for a bank-note, with the alternative of being shot, is an unpleasant adventure. Count Stanislas Grabowski, an elderly gentleman, went to Paris at the end of the whiter. The count, who bad been staying all the time at a house near the Chimps Elyseee, was returning between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning when he saw a well <b esred youn.; man standing at the d A or. He ia'g the bel!, pnd was soon admitted, the stranger, whom he naturallv took to be another tenant, following him. When they were both well in the hall the man, tapping the count on the shoulder to make him turn round, pointed ji revolver at him, and cried : " Give mo 100 francs, or i will short yon." 'fating a roll of bank-notes from his pocket book, ths count was proceeding to detach one, paving at the same time " I believe it is 100 francs that you want?" when the fellow tried to 6nateh the whole bu^dl 0 from hk hand. There were 1,5?00 francs in all, and ho contrived to get the batch, with the exception of the halves of a couple of notes which were tern. The man, having possessed him pel f of all he wanted, and more, was about to beat a retreat, when t.he porter appearel on the scene. The thief fired one shot at him and another at the count, fortunately without hit tins; either. Indeed, it i« doubtful whether his revolver was loaded with ball cartridges, as no t r ace of bullets has hen discovered in the ball. The man then bolted out of the hotel, pu.mied by several people who had witnessed his hurried exit, and after a hot chase in several streets he got clear away. The police have horips of tracking the thief, as Count Grabowski has given them a full and precise description of his assailant.