A SANDOW ANECDOTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 194, 30 August 1901, Page 2

A SANDOW ANECDOTE.

A good story 'has just reached me of how Sandow's strength stood him in good stead among the bullies who have lately been infesting the Bois de Boulogne. Their method of action is to have one of the gang follow the victim. At a given signal several others approach and close in on him, rob him, sometimes feriously injuring him. An additional 300 police now ride about the Bois on bicycles and keep a sharp look-out. But, despite this extra vigilance, the outrages continue. One day San do w, walking in a rather remote avenue of the Bois, suddenly I realised that he was bsing followed. He grasped the situation and apparently took no notice. As be had expected, a signal called two or three fellows from the shrubbery. As the first appro tched, Bandow stooped down as if to tie his bootlace, grasped the robber by the ankle, and used him as a sort of cat-o'-nine tails, lashiDg bis astonished confrere-*, first one and then the other, bafore they bad a chance even to think of esrapiog, staving in the ribs of another, and leaving the whole gang maimed and strewn upon the ground. Then Sandow leisurely went on and remarked to the next p licemin he met: " You will find two or three m n up there more dead than alive Y u better go and have a look at thsm."—" M.A.P."