WRESTLER’S NIGHT ADVENTURE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9127, 23 April 1908, Page 2

WRESTLER’S NIGHT ADVENTURE.

Paris, February 27. Hackensohmidt, the famous wrestler, was the hero of an amusing adventure last night, at Ins hotel in the Rue Lafayette. _ He was awakened in the middle ox the night by a sound. Looking up, he saw a figure in the act of helping itself to the contents of his pockethook, He immediately leaped out of his bed, turned the button ot the electric light, and was about to spring on the thief when he realised that he had to deal with a little old man. When the culprit saw the colossal Hackensohmidt towering over him, he nearly drepped in terror, and the latter’s recommendation to him to stand still was, under the circumstances, superfluous. Hastily dressing, the champion led his quaking prisoner to the nearest commissary, where it turned out that he was a Belgian, named Louis Belmont, aged 74. He nad occupied the next room to Hackensohmidt, and made his little nocturnal expedition without knowing withjwhom he had to deal.