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Identity.
Speculation Is rife In London as 10
tho identity OF the English duchess
who, according TO tho annual police
reports OF the French government just
published. has been arrested dnring
the last twelve months In one OF the
great Partisan emporiums Tor shoplift-
ing. quantities Of stolen articles being
discovered about her person.
Her grace was subjected 10 the In
dignity OF arrest end search BY the POI
lice aud TO the even still more intolera-
BILE iRnominy OF detention for forty
eight hours ut the depot. or central POI
lice station. among the crowds OF
drunk and-disordcrlics and criminals
OF every description who are assembled
there previous to being brought before
the magistrates.
The duchess was with great difficulty
extricated from this disagreeable sit
uation through the Intervention OF
Lord Dnnerin, the British Ambassador,
and only after the payment Of a fine OF
ten thousand dollars, which has been
devoted to the relief of the Partisan
poor.
The Parisian police, with the gall
lantry that belongs to their race, have
Ind thu commendable consideration TO
abstain from mentioning her grace's
name In their published report I'm
fortunately. however. the number OF
English duchesses Is exceedingly small
There are not more than twenty of
them altogether. and they are such
important personagcs that their migra-
tion to and fro ON the continent are
considered worthy of mention in the
newspapers, English and foreign,
Now there are only few OF the
strawberry-l ladies who
crossed the continent TO Paris last
year, hence there are about three
among whom the titled shoplifter
must be.
People are inclined to ascribe the
identity of the kleptomaniac duchess
TO n lady twice widowed, "a commoner
by birth, but married into a ducal
house.
IL Is well known that last year some
thing happened which suddenly caused
this until then frivolous lady TO en-
tirely change her mode of life and to
become very penitent her days now
being spent in fasting, prayer and in
the endeavor TO do good to the poor.
Moreover. she has abandoned Paris,
once her favorite residence. Presum-
ably 1t was the arrest and forty-eight
hours in the police depot that effected
this radical transformation.
Yet her grace may console herself
with the knowledge that she Is by no
means the only lady of rank afflicted
with kleptomania or who has been ar
rested while engaged in shoplifting
The daughter OF n reigning prince in
Germany and some Russian princesses
were detected some eight months ago
purloining small articles in a Paris
shop and were only let go after paying
heavy fines
Kleptomania Ia form Of insanity
far commoner among the high-born
and delicately classes than
people realize. and inasmuch ms Paris
Is the headquarters of everything in
the shape of feminine elegance and ar
ticles Of one kind and another calcu-
lated 20 tempt the purse and the
wishes OF the fair one, IL Is only nat
ural that those afflicted with this
moral ailment OF lSIcptomania should
find IL impossible TO suppress IL on the
banks of the Seine. Consequently the
foreign embassies at Paris are put to n
good deal of trouble in extricating
their country-women from scrapes Of
the kind in which the English duchess
above referred TO involved herself -
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