Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1902 — DARING AMERICAN’S FATE. [ARTICLE]

DARING AMERICAN’S FATE.

The Francais contains the follow-ing-story of a daring American tourist in the French metropolis; “Victor Kvandale, an American about forty years of age, declared at a case table that he had lived for ten yours in the wildest regions of western United States and had never carried a weapon and was never afraid. Several Frenchmen who were present told him that Paris wa£ more dangerous. They asserted that he could not go from (Jrenelle to Mont rogue, for example, after 10 o’clock at night without being killed unless he wore laborers’ clothes. Evandale left the case after a time without reverting to the conversation about dangerous localities. Next morning his companions of the night before were horrified to read of the discovery of Evandale’s body in the glacis of the fortifications near the Maison Blanche. It is supposed he must have actually attempted to walk from Grenelle to Mont rogue immediately after leaving his friends. Evidently he was attacked from behind. Tight around his neck was found a thin leather thong which had been used to strangle him. His pockets were rifled and his shoes and coat removed.”