The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-03-15
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A PARIS ROMANCE.

4@4N4C @NO a. %AAN SA4s
Monsieur and Madam vauban kept
bureau for governesaes and nurses on thu
Rue seyigny, Paris.
Monsieur Vaubau looked like a jolly
monk, who had discarded his cowl and de
serted the clOisters, bringing with him I
love Of ease and good living,
Madame Vauban ressmbled sedate
retired dusnna, who smiled only as mat
ter Of business, and cOnversed in a style
which might be safely styled as select aut
intellectual. Both together looked so re-
spectacle, SO Trustworthy, SO intensely
proper and virtuous, that the lady or gen
tieman who went TO them for the first time
to consult them professionally, was at once
amazed at their fitness and capacity for the
business to which they had devoted them.
selves and at the smallness OF the fet
which they demanded. These two emf
nentlY correct persons had been in bust
ness for some yeaTs-s0 their card informed
the inquirer-and had references Of such
accumulated respectabllity that no ont
could doubt them to bu the only safe and
properly qua fled individuals in that par.
tiCular walk OF lie in the Virluous city Of
Paris,
The apartments occupied by this es.
teemed brace Of WORTHLESS were on the sec.
ond floor aud consisted of three rooms
one q general reception room for Rppi-
csnts for positions; anolhera private room
for the use Of Mons. and Madam Vauban,
aud third, still more private room
where at certain hours ladies and gentle
men desiriugto makespsCial arrangements
might be seen,
Uu June II, 1882, Madame Gouyion, re-
siding on the Boulevard Marcel, applied
for gnVerness for her two children In
o week q bIghly recommended lady OF
about 30 was offered, and in due time wai
installed in Madam Gouyion's residence
Madam Gouvion was the wife OF pros
porous manufacturer, and lived in fine
style.
Madam Marioy, tho governegs, was the
widow oil IA naval officer, who had been un.
fortunate III his accounts with the govern
ment, and had found 1t necessary first 10
absent himself without leave and then to
blow out his brains. Such was Madam
MArtoyB explanation oil her widOwnOud,
and, in support OF it, an elderly white
haired gentleman once or twice q month
called on her, whom Bhe introduced ar
the htart.broken father Ci her late unior.
tunato husband. Marfoy, pere, was once
or twice asked to stay Tor lunch, and
always acquitted himself rs Il vigorous
feeder, and was enabled to put away NOR
CognaC and wine than one Of his advanced
years and crushed soul might ba expected
to do, But no was extremely well bred,
and had u sister who was the March.
ioness de FremiCourt, and in consideration
OF her ladyahip's once hOnOring Madam
GouVion by stopping in her carriage at
the residence OF that lady and leaving b
package OF bon.bons for her dear nIeCe's
pupils, Monsieur Maiioy, tho elder, was
permitted to take all the c0guac and wine
he desired, whenever he was invited 10
stay for lunch.
On September oath, little over three
months after the engagement OF Madam
Marioy, Monsieur GouViOn went to Lyons
on business The following night the
house was entered by burglars, who
resChed Madam GouvlOn's dressing room
and aleeping apartment. Madam GOuyion,
hearing noise in the dressing room,
arose and turned up the lamp. She wa
confronted by two masked men, who
seized and gagged her and threw her upon
tho bed. Then they rauBaCkGd bureaus
and closets, and departed with iegelTy
and silverware valued at $4,000 francs and
$500 francs in money. Madam Gouvion
lay at deaths door for many hours, and
was tenderly nursed by Madam Marfoy,
tho GoyerntRs.
The police made worry careful investi.
CATION into the affair, and to an expert
detective named LEIPZIG was given the spe.
Cal care OF the case. Assisted by com.
plete loCkBmith, he examined the locke
which had been picked, as was supposed
1t WIS servants business every night TO
lock theEe doors and carry the keys to
Ma lam Gouvion, This, the servant said,
had been done the evening before the rob.
berry, and the keys were found the next
morning on Madam GOuvion's dressing.
table. There was no sign Of any force
having been llsed to open tho locks, and
tue conclusion reached wss that duplicate
keys had been used. Then followed an
inquiry as 10 how the duplicate keys
had been obtained, for each lock was diff.
ferent, and had n key specially made for it.
LeplO examined the keys infinitely.
Gould he be mistaken, or was that rust
upon two OF them2 Withoutquestion II
was rust-two spots Of rust on one key,
and FIVE spots on another. Whence came
that rust2
LEIPZIG rubbed one Of tho spots with his
finger very lightly. II came OF sure
sign that the trust was not Of long stand.
Ing. He examined the window in the
dihing room through which the burglars
had entered. It fastened with a brass
bolt, which entered brass hasp. There
were marks on Il Q woodwork which clear.
Iy showed that the hRSp had been forced
off on the inside with small Vhisel orthG
small blade Of knife.
"This thing" said the officer, "has
been planned and carried ont by the aid
Of some one inside the house. This night
when Monsieur Gouvon was away was
selected, and the very keys themselves
were pushed out to the burglars, 30 that,
having entered at the windows, all they
had to do was, apply the keys, and, hay.
ing accomplished this end, leave them on
Madam Gouvion's dressing table. But
how about the rust2 ALL l seeI they
were tliFown out OF a window upon the
grass-the grass was damp, aud hence the
rust"
LEIPZIG went through all the rooms whose
windows overlooked the left eide oil tue
house where there was lawn for the chill
dren to play on. There was three win
dows pertaining to Madam G0nviun'I
apartments, two TO the Children's and one
to Madam Marioy's. Above these apart
inents were five rooms, used only or
special occasions, and pnoCcupied on thu
evening before the robbery.
In Madam Marfoy'B room LEIPZIG observed
a ball OF twine used for iuaCreme work
Part Of It had been recently uuwound anC