The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1857.

At that rase date the (northward , Odra, hastened
she to quit P.M and France. Oud, a was employed by the
Northern Company, at Ara Os lake care of the luggine,
then ea night watchman at the mar dike He left the
company's service in the month el Weber, 1855, stating
that he had just come into an briber that enabled him
to give up hie situation. Oufrin's salary on the railway
was only 1,200 f. a year, and until the year pleas to hue
departure he heed in extremely straitened eireumstancee.
The invtortion has proved that from 1850 to 1853 he had
been obliged to make over to his creditor. a part of his small
salary; that in 18.54 he lad been compelled to pledge a silver
watch at the Monte de Pie'tei. After has deportees there wee a
good deal of talk about the rich property Ise had Inherited;
then about some lucky speculetions he had made at the
Bourse. Shortly otter it was seen that he was buying
Looser , building, lending cuneiderable sums, and indulging in
ell kind. of expenses. It was in the midst of this mode of life
that the fact of his madden deappeerance occurred, coincid-
ing with that of Carpentier, Gallia, and Perot. The first
weetinv having first of all made evident that the peculation.
had etken place in the very office over which Guerin had
been the night watchman, he was of course implicated
from the beginning in the criminal charge. Guerin is the
first of the four acetmed that fell into the hands of justice.
Ile Bret of all took refuge at Brunets, then at London,
where he assumed a Glee name; there it was that he was
arrested, en the 17th of September, 1856. The precaution.
taken by Careentier end Grellet to explain and justify their
admines had given them, as we have seen, time to leave the
Continent before any invoeligation was made. No suspicion
was excited egainet them in the minds of their chiefs until
the lit of Settember. On that day M. the Marquis Dalai,
the managing direemr, rocked a viait from Cerpenhor's te-
ther, accompanied hy M. Papy, the official to whom Orellet hod
imparted kw pretended journey to Trouville in search of
Carpentler. luforreed by M. l'apy of the facts related to tile
' latter by Orellet, M. Carpentler went hinted! to Trouville to
assist (.pellet its bneging his eon away. He found there
neither his sou, nor the girl Otoorget, nor in short Orellet
himself ; and not teeing able to amount for all this, be came
to inform the Martinis Daloe of the affair. However, the
anxiety mused by this communication appeared to be lee-
need at first by the primary iniedries set on foot the !ic-
emen with the bowie of Itethsehild, the ot.pany's banker,
the account with the Bank of France, the cash in the office,
wen verified and found quite correct. Lastly, they examined
tho contents of a chest of drawers standee; in Greaten
room, and which ought to have to it thirty thousand
chem. belonging to M. Rothschild t the number of
these shares was complete. It will soon be seen
that these grounds of security were merely apparent ;
that, for inetence, if the cheat of drawees set apart
for M. Rothechild's shares did contain thirty trued share-
titles, a pert of this scrip did not belong to M. Rothschild,
and had been taken fern elsewhere to make up the number
of thirty thousand, by tilling up the voids proceeding fnem
previous purluiementa. But on the Ist of September, owing
to a lingering feeling of that confidence which they had
hitherto placed in the accused, Carpentier and °relict, the
chiefs of the company felt themselves r•-aseured by the result
of the verification. they bad made, end waited in the full
belief that the two accrued persons would come of their own
ward and furnish an explanation of their eeerhict. By the
3rd of September neither of them had made his appearance,
and on that day their Jests were opened. More ample proofs
were soon obtained, which brought to light the enormous
deficit of which it is now time to explain the nature and the
fall extent. 1. Some thou lack the Baron Rothschild con-
fided to the principal cushier of the comp.,. (who was at that
time DI. Robust) 30,000 +liana of the Nen.= liallwey.
These 30000 slams were placed in the First Menne. in
boxes under look and key, then after I.ollle time in a then
standing against the wall in M. Robert's °Mee. In the
month of Innerseber, 18)5, or in the mouth of January, 1856,
M. Robert had the cheat in question removed to tirelleit's
°Moe. In Rotert's lifetime the accused Orellet and Care
'metier had the keys of this chest whenever they wanted to
use them. When Carpeeticr was appointed to the situation
f heedseahicr he remained in solo charge of these keys.
The scrutiny made on the Ist of September, having merely
awartainol the number of share. deposited is the 'heat, dad
not reveal any deficit ; but on the 3d of September, when
they wished t., weertain the identity of the sharer, deposited
by Baron Itethschild, by the help of the numbers imiceibed
on than seriatim, it was discovered that 5,065 of them way
mining, and it was sonic demonstrated that those 5,065
share* hod leen replaced by the came number of war-
rants belonging to depteite made by other aleareholdsea
Sil week. later. on the 31st of October, 1856, a declaration
made by the eitinmieeiry of police showed that there wen
evident traces of violenee upon the sheet. In mentioning
this cireimatenie here, it is proper to add (what will be in
the erequel the eubject of fuller melanetions) that the violence
penetrated cannot appintently be imputed other to Carpenter
tar Orollet, and that Guerin alone could have had an intense
in committing it, with a view to theft* altogether distinct
from than committed by Carpentier and ()relief. 2. In
the cellar. of the Northern Red way Company they are
placed chests or wife. for holding the nearer depesited by
the &embolden. Tho entrance to these cellars ie from the

very room of the head cashier, beneath a wive:Moe coveting&
Hight of step.., at the bottom of +Lich there are two iron
dons, math of which ix furnished with two wafety
Lacks. The keys of theee two doors were in the
restedy of Carpentier end Orellet Loth Leftwo and after
M. Robert'. death. Each of the chasm lying in the °ellen
has three safety locks to it; the first in the middle, the
where shove end below. The middle one is that which
really Leeks, the other two merely cent rid the +Gm of the
middle leek in meth • way that thy. cannot work until
the too ethers have been prevmmly opened. Beene
the month of July, 1836, tech safe, having its triple
lock, was itself placed in a similar safe, somewhat larger and
ale. guarded by three leeks. Whilst this kale of things
Imteil, the key, of the outer sofa remained In the kends of
the uttneging directore ; those of the odes endows' in the
former were confided to the heed ceshier. In July, 18.56,
considerable alterations were made ly workmen in the ormi-
pany'it niter& for the purpose of rendering the double safes
omperflueue. By the new system adopted the
&keit. are guarded merely by the triple loft
on the safe itself containing them, and in order
not to diminish the severity smelting from the neva-
soy co-operation on the part of one of the dimetore
with the chief cashier, when a safe bee to be opened, the
key at the central lock is alone confided to the keeping of the
head emigre, whilst those of the two other locks remain in
the custody of the director,. Each deposit of shares made
with the board of the company oecseions the following pra-
t:Meier+ and formalities —The depesited shwas are placed in
a bee. to which there is attached Blithe! bearing the tegnatures
tif the bead emitter and two director. Then the beg so en-
dow,' is stowed away in a safe. Whenever the depositor
niche, to effect the withdraws" of his shame, they take them
out of the endoreed wrapper and give them up to him, but
the enderxed wrapper or bag remains in the company's
eifiem, wirh the deposit label, the signatures of which they
hove token rote to mete. In spite of the chtlitulthe pre-
meted hy therm eleberate prertut lone, the seemed Carpentier
and °fetid found mane to vet at the ineide of the mks.
When, on the 3rd of September, 1856, they had Orellet's
desk opened, they found in it tie wrapper with the endow-
mint relating to the deposit effected on the Bth of March,
1433, by N. the Marquise( Lantilbne, of 210 Northern Reit-
way shares. To this bag wee attached the deposal label, the
'weather, of which were not checked off, a reuse proof that
the 240 Alarm had not been withdrawn by their lawful
owner. Finally, they observed &writing eigeed Assolent,"
dated Nov. I, 1853, and by which Aeselent arknowledged Ida
having assivied to the Bank of Franee, on Greet's amount,
240 Northern Railway shares. Further march demonstrated
that these 210 shame were no other than them belonging to
the 31ertsuis of Lentilher. 'they had been fraudulently ah•
Mewed from ono of the safes before alluded to. Other and
much more litiOtorutic tots et sieves area elan miming in them
boxes, they found in thew 31 envelopes, with their labele, re-
ferring L. 34 &peeks effected hy twelve elimehoklers, whom
title-deeds to the number of 5,512 had disappeared. The
totals, still fastened to the r. neelopes, and bearing the signa-
ture., nut retard, of the directors and chief cashier, suffi-
ciently proved that the miming shares had not been with-
drawn by the deporibtre, Lut by criminal hands. Moreover,
of the se 3,512 shares, 5,065 were immediately found Resin.
Tliey ere preriettly there who-h were placed mamas Baron
Ituthschild's bundle of paper., to sapply the plats of the
tithe or vouchers seen in the chest of drawers rearmed for
their safe custody. There remained 4r; shares which could
not be foetid. and which, with the 240 belonging to the Nor-
quis of lanialhar, firmed a total of 687 chary" stolen from
out of the silos, beiih-s the 5,065 share. of Baron highs-
child's papers. It will bo shown presently how they Ma-
naged to get hold of the tithe enclosed in the safes. Fur the
present, that which im melain is, that no trace of violence, no
malaria sign of agency by halm keys could be perceived on
themes/es. 3. The onibexelements of shwa form only a
pert Mar (leech secertained to exiet after the Right of the
amused. There were yet missing s thousand Mures of the
railway company, evideutly abstracted by the same accused
partite, and of which it wee far easier foe them to obtain
posseeaue. The dehen!yre, or scrip tope Leaned by the
Northern Railway Company are tied up like registered &en-
meats with their tallies in bundle', each of which contains
600 scrip shame. Several of thews packets were generally
coofided in advance to tire head cashier, whose duty it was to
untie the debentures from their Mein., to prepare them, mad
mud them as they were wonted to the house of Itotbeehild
for issue. One of the tine verifications made on the 3rd of
September, 1856, !vaulted in showing that two bundle+, that
ie toesy one thous/trill ecrip eharea numbered from 334,001
to 383,000 inclusive, had disappeared. The cash in the till
tat has been already mentioned) appeared at first eight to
teaks up an exact and regular Mixers ; there no. found to
tat, however, a deficit there of one million ens
hundred and silty-six thomand five huadnd and
furty-theve from filty-two centuries. This deficit we-
ttish"' I, of • sum of 900,000 f. falsely inserted
in the caetv•took so having been paid into the Bank
of France , 2, of weather out, of 268,313 f. 32c. Gael? la-
mribed in the cash-book as haying been paid over to the re-
elwthetble tweets of the eompany. It is area, by this sole
indication, that the latter portion of the deficit produced lby
the melted reveals *paint them not merely c inaiderable
melvereeitone but also flee entries committed with a view to
4,01%0901 the former. Such are, in their totality, the dilapi-
dation* on the ground of which French justice demanded of

.111, genie neMit of the %Mel States the extradition of the
them pelsomen ebb bed led to New York. Two of these
seed Guest and Perot, were arrested by order of the
American autbraillee, a law days after they landed, that is,
on the 26th fleplember, laid, In virtue of a similar order, the
arrest of Copular wee anted on Oct. 16, 1866, at a term,
wbore he had concealed himself under the name of Delannay ;
but it wu not till mach later (and we know at the end of
what judicial. proceedings) that they woe handed over to the
justice of their own roman.Carpeatier In the month of
May, 1857, °relief in June, 1867, sad Perot at the end of
Jaly in the same year. Grellet was delivered up to French
justice in execution of a regular decision of extradition. Car-
meatier end Perot gave themselves up voluntarily, but under
the direct threat of a similar decision (it has been previously
mentioned that the accused Guerin was arrested In London,
on the 17th of December, 1856, and brought back to France
immediately). Looking at the 'anemone dcit, the several
elements of which have been explained, it is proper to men-
tion the sums or securities either seised or ascertained to be
in the possession of the four accused at the period of their
erred. Carpenter was found lobe the rof 108,7201 ;
100,0001. In bank notes had been ted with a M. Canted,
his relative, whole settled at New ark. Upon Grellet was
found a sum of 22,900 f. • upon Pang 110,00 K, represented
by a receipt from M. Belmont, of New York, to whom Tarot
had entrusted a liko mum in notes of the Bank of France.
As those sums together make up only a total of 187,511 E,
*event document. collected in the Mon of the charge war-
rant us in supposing that the scented Perot, Chitin, and
Copeinier may have concealed somewhere, separately or to-
gether, a part of the 1.1117611 abstracted. The accused Guerin
ham shown himself to be more dexterous ; he poured, at
the moment of his arrest, property purebred by him at
Park or in the neighbourhood, valued at 31,000 f. ;
several amounts due to him on loam advance' by him-
mit and representing a sum of 142,000 f. • a sum of
1,114 f., in coupon of Northern Railway shares, and a
further sum of 160,000 f. in rondo exported to Valparaiso.
Lastly, when be left Paris for Belgium, he took with him
611,000 f. in bank-notes. The whole of this fortune was evi-
dently nothing else but the produce, already diminished in
dieeipetion and gambling speculation, of the robberies com-
mitted by Guerin in the offices of the Northern Railway
Company ; for it is hardly necessary to say that the rich
inheritance of which he had spoken, upon resigning his
tion, Will a mere fiction invented to serve his purpose. Before
their sweet, the judicial inquiry had collected sgainst them
proofs sufficiently convincing and precise. The denials of
Carpentier, Griffin, and Perot, before the American magi- I
stones would have fallen to the ground in presence of these
prods. The two int, accordingly, did not hesitate to make
admissions. As itle Perot, hr having arrived in France
almost on the ere of the aseicce, expreesed a wish to reserve
his explanations for the day of trial. Carpentier and Gullet
have not merely admitted the speculations on 'Change to
which they addicted theruselvie in the years 1852-6, and
in which Perot pirticipatol. They have themselves advanced
OM fact as a means of defence, no as to explain the diaap •
pomace (complete, they, soy) of the resources they had pro-
cured through their robberies end predations. It tannin,
from themes riedarations, and even Previously to those decla-
rations the inquiry had estalihebed the fact, that the
abstracted warrants had been Bret of all taken to the Bank of
Franco, or to the sub-cashier's office of the railways, to obtein
on those pledged warrants money for carrying on their °pen-
nons at the Exchange. These pledged warrants might LII
leave room for the supposition that they contemplated restitu-
tion, in case the chances of their gambling tratunctions should
procure corns sufficient to effect the redemption. But moor,
fortune being adverse, they withdrew the deeds in order to
sell them definitively. The authorities at the Bank of
France, or their clerks, have been ablo to supply the most
incontestable information upon the pledges in question and
on the importance of the loans obtained in this wanner. This
information contains nothing but what in In accordance with
the confessione of the accused. It was Perot, generally, who
either personally, or by meana of others lending their mums,
took upon himself to go and pledge the warrants. Gullet
made no deposit of such titledeeds in his own name, but he
did so often in the name of a third party. Lastly, Carpe
m
tier on whom greater circumspection was imposed by his po-
sition and character, took no personal part in these acts,
although they were carried out with his knowledge or at his
inatigations, sad in the common interest of himself and
the two other seemed pawns. Guerin, too, Ms often
obtained from the Bank, or at the minor cash.office of the
railway., advancesupon pledged warrants, and they were pro-
cured either in his own Horse or in those of third parties.
These warrants or titles were not exclusively Northern 'lon-
ely sham, but other Rheum as well of various kinde, whirl I
be evidently could only hove procured by previous negotia-
tions by means of Northern Railway shares. The inquiry
has, moreover, seoertained that Clujon gambled at the Rs-
change on her own streount, and that hie operations there in
the year. 1831-1856 amotuatol to no less a sum than
43.n0u,000

-inn general narrative of the robberies here concludes, end
the preelm *bore of each of tbo amused in the crimes alleged
la amigard. We continue the translation:
The Marquis of Delon, B teen Rotharbild,.M. Delebeeque,
and M. Hottinguer then eeverally deposed to the facts rebtted
to the indictment.

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