The sun., 1880-11-21
CELEBRATED BOOK sTEALERs.
Tho Priest who Committed Many Murder
Because OF his Passion for books.
From The London Spectator.

rum We bDnuOh fpecutoT.
Many eminent characters have been bibli-
oklepts. When Innocent Y. was still Monsignor
Pamphilio he stole book-so says Tallemant
Is hat bn was
book thief; He used to tell how ho prgged a
mant whom Janin does not seem to have con-
suited. there are many people who DOM
think It stealing to steal book. unless you sell
But Du Monster took less liberal view
Cardinal Barberni mica esme Met to Paris as ieeate
and brought in his suite Monsignor Pamphlio.
Who 10 aiterward became InnocentX. The Car
where Monsienor Pamphilo spied. on a table.
sd,dn qu C9nee de TreHtshe good
thought the, young ecclesastic. that such a
man should be- by % some aTSedent Tit the p0ssessor
his soutane. But little Du Monster observed
him. and said furiously to the Cardinal that
others Of Violent and eeiio%s % charaeier rae" Eh he
and kicked out the future Pope. Ameiot de ia
h9Isssier al traces t2 this incident the hatred
'1lPS ses wHs ii P5hnSS o
book from Mtnage-so NJ. Janin reports-but
We have not been able to discover M6nage's own
80 truthful that Cardinals need flush a deeper.
scarlet like the roses in Bion's Lament for
authority Of MGnage. Among royal persons.
Catherine de Medici; according TO Bran!0me.
very fine library. and after his death the Queen
Mother seized It, promising some day 10 pay
bs bs to H Ss got Of
drian Library was called " The Books from the
from passengers in vessels that touched that
port True the owners were given copies OF
totle says. was an involuntary one. and not
distinct from robbery.
The great M pattern OF bibiloklepts man who
was a. sPTnsh bob priest Don oi
libraries. Libraries 'sH Don Vincente ' Established Himself
at Barcelona. under the pillars Of Los Eneantes.
brac. and the seats OF them that sell books. :, In
u gloomy den the Don stored up treasures that
he hated sell o9Ss hs was va 81 or
rare. perhaps UNIQUE. volume. Three nights
ssE np' bS the sops hSsss
and shop of the man who had bought "Ordi.
nacions per los Gloriosos Reys de Arago.""
o % Mn;
with pipe In his hlackened hand and SONS
money beside him. Every one said; He must p
pipe" Time went on. and week by week the
police found the bodies OF slain men, now IN the
were young men and old ;aii had been harmless
and inoffensive citizens in their lives. and1all
hand Saa the
had spared their purses. money. and rings. An
organized search was made in the city. and
the shop Of Don Vincente was examined;
the copy Of Ordinacions per los Glori-
| osos Reys de ArAgo." which ought by rights 10
| have been burned with the house OF lts pur-
chaser Don Nincente was ask ed how no got the
book. He replied in n quiet voice, demanded
that his collection should be made over TO tho
| Barcelona Library. and then confessed long
| array of crimes. He had strHngled his rival
| stolen the Ordinations" and burned the
| house The slain men were people who had
| bought from him books which he really could
| not bear to part with. AT his trial his council
| tried to prove that his confession was false.
| and that he might have got his books by hon
| est means. 1t was objected that there
| was in the world only one book printed
| by Lambert Palmart in liS2. and that
| the prisoner must have stolen THIS, the only
| copy from the library where II was treasured.
| The defendants counsel proved that there was
| another copy in the Louvre; that. therefore,
| there might be more. and that the deiondants
| might have been honestly procured. Here Don
Vincente, previously callous, uttered an hys-
| tcrical cry Said the Alcade: At last. Vim:
cents, YOU begin to, understand the enormity OF
miserable | am - IF human lustco prove
innexlble there is another justice whose pity
is inpxnaustible Repentance is never too late, ,
"Ah Signor Alcalde my copy was not unique!
| With the story OF this impenitent thief, we may
close tho roll OF biblioklepts.