Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-26
RICH BURGLAR STOLE FOR FIJI,
Paris Millionaire for Eleven Year. Robbed Simply as an Amuse.
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Chicago detectives may as we'll be. gin to study the face and deeds of Au- gust Fevrot, Paris man of fashion and expert burglar, who has declared his intention, of coming to America to do . little professional work. D ;
 The police of Paris claim that this sams>Sdr. Fevrot is, the prize catch ot years and they are correspondlngly happy. Whatever his claim of medals and other indications of excellence in his chosen line, the French prisoner certainly is one of the most remark able criminals in the annals of law breakers. The hypothetical case o1 Dr. Jekyll and MT. Hyde is not SC strange as this case of M. Fevrot, says the Chicago Tribune.
 Fevrot, who was arrested by the Paris police few days ago along with some of his pals" and only after a fight in which one of the detectives was killed, is now 30 years old, but he has been leading his dual life of bur Ylar and society favorite for Il years. His first burglary was committed be- fore he was 20, and he has been at it ever since, many times experiencing hairbreadth escapes, many times see ing his partners in crime taken, bus never has there been a suspicion that the dashing, wealthy, educated and charming young NJ. Fevrot was not what he appeared to his fashionable friends.
 Since the game is up with M. Fsvrot for the time being, and it is to be short time aS he says, he has taken his imprisonment philos ophically and has talked freely of his past life. Accord ing to his story, he began the life ot a criminal purely through love of e1- citement and adventure. He is son ot millionaire, was reared like most young Frenchmen of his clasz, and gave no promise that he would ever do anything remarkable. But he loved excitement, and he found it when by mistake he was taken in with gang of young burglars and was permitted to accompany them on raid. The raid was failure, but it was exciting, and from that time the young man was burglar, and an expert. He shove his young companions why they failed and later on he led them against the same safe and they made success full job.
 The young mans three years service in the army prevented him from taking as active an interest in burglary as he had before, but he managed to keep in touch with his old friends in the pre- fession and did much of their planning for them. Several times under his di- rection the regimental treasury was footed. And he still maintained his leadership over his men. At, one time. after he left the army, he had as many as 60 burglars working under his or ders, a number which was too large because of it's unwie-diness and the petty jealousies of the men. A gang of ten or twelve he consid cred about the proper size for the most efficient work.
 This strange prisoner explains his hold upon the criminals who have worked with and under him so many years, never once letting out whis- pered hint that the society youth was their leader, by his generosity. Being rich, he had no inducement to haggle with his companions over the plunder. Much of his gains he gave away to the widows of dead burglars or applied to the support of women whose husbands were doing time.