San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-03

amOrita Louise
LaBrouscbe.
The tiresome Piaget case which has
been dragging its weary length
through the supreme court for several
weeks past, so tantalizipgly slow that
even those directly connected hav Q
lost interest in it, developed some
startling features within the last few
days. w. o. Sullivan, son Of
Banker Dan Sullivan of San Antonio,
Texas, whom Piaget victim
lied, and Detective Thomas j.
Hughes, of the San Antonio police,
who have been in the city watching
the case, in the interest Of Mr.. Sulli-
van, were confident up to Monday, of
getting the necessary extradition
papers signed, and expected to have
their man on his way to San Antonio,
about the end of this week. Tuesday
morning the case took different as
pect. An agent of the defendant,
who had arrived from New York on
one of the late trains the evening be-
fore, approached Mr.. Sullivan and
offered to compromise the case
by returning $4,000 of the
stolen money If, in return,
he would cease all further prosecu-
ton. This proposition Mr.. Sullivan
accepted. and he lett yesterday morn
ing for New York. Detective Thomas
Hughes was evidently unacquainted
with the new phase of matters, and
when he went into the court room
Tuesday morning was surprised to see
Messrs. Drysdale aud Newcombe, his
attorneys, withdraw from the case. In
answer to question by a Herald
reporter, Detective Hughes said he
knew nothing whatever about the
compromise, and 80 far has not been
officially informed that 1t is the in
tention of Mr.. Sullivan senior to drop
proceedings. ~ am determined" he
said, "to bring Paiget to San Antonio;
and have every confidence in the fair
ness and good judgment of both
Judge Ritchie and Meagher."
Would $4,000 cover the loss sus-
tanned by Mr.. Sullivan? the reporter
asked.
Every nearly So" said the detec-
tive, ~, 900 or half of the stolen sheep
have been attached in Color ado; and
the city marshall at San Antonio has
q recei pit for an express parcel con-
tanning Sc, 500 which Piaget's accom-
plice, Louisia Ba Brousche, expressed
from New York to herself in San An
tonic"
Louis Piaget, the principal, now in
the Halifax county Jail, was employ
ed by Daniel Sullivan, a wealthy
banker at San Antonio. as foreman of
his cattle ranch, which Is situated
some 275 miles to the north west of
the city. The ranch was well
stocked one. 1t contained about
Is, 900 head of sheep and over 40 horses
for the use o: the shepherds, Piaget
it seems drove the sheep across q
"dividen IA range of hills) towards
the Texas Pacific railway and ship
ped 1000 of them on to Colorado,
where he sold them to man named
Gurenski. The other 1000 he divided
up in smaller shipments, sending
part to st. Louis and part to Chicago.
When he received and cashed the
drafts for these sales he
rushed on to Fort WORT
where Louisa LaBrousche was
waiting him, and the pair took
the train for st. Louis and thence to
Chicago. From Chicago they went
over to Toronto and subsequently to
New York where they went to differ
erent hotels and assumed fictitious
names. Piaget calling himself Pig
gott and Mrs. LaBrousche converting
her name into Mrs. l.. l.. Rabourne.
She expressed purse containing
S., 500 from New York addressed to
Mrs. l.. l.. Rabourne, San Antonio,
and shortly afterwards followed the
parcel to its destination, where she
was Immediately arrested as an ac-
complete. The express receipt was
found sewed in the seam at the bot
tom of her skirt.
Piaget went from New York to
Quebec, and from Quebec to Halifax,
where he fell into the legal clutches
of Detective Power, and was placed in
durance vile.
The woman In the case, Mrs. Louise
LaBrousche, is a widow. She has
been intimate with Piaget for several
years; and ON account of this inti-
macy, Piaget's wife secured divorce
from him some time ago. The real
Mrs. Piaget is residing in San An
tonic, where she has an 1S.year old
daughter studying in one of the con-
vents.
The first intimation Mr.. Dan Sulli-
van had of the robbery was on April
9th. Detective Hughes was immedi-
ately sent for and it was through his
fundamentally that Piaget was ar
rested in Halifax. Paiget had $3.50 on
him when arrested; but up to the ar
rival of the mysterious messenger
from New York Monday evening the
rnrnsacntinn were all at Gen as to the