Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-05-28
PURSUIT W IIJNBEkl rs
Worldwide Search For Principals
In Gigantic Swindle.
1T MAY END IN PHILADELPHIA
Detectives Think COnspfratOrs Who
Got Millions Are Possibly Aboard.
Ships Bound Ihere-On Look
out at Halifax Too.

New York, May 27.-Search for the
Humberts, who, according to Premier
Waldeck- Rousseau of France, "perpe-
trated the most gigantic swindle of the
century," has been transferred from
this port to Philadelphia. At the Quak-
er City win arrive two ships that sailed
from Liverpool the day after the Hum
berts were seen there, which was Sat
lrday one week ago.
1t was supposed the famous family
had sailed for these shores on the Uni
bria. which has Just arrived, but
search of that ship for the three prli-
cipal conspirators and any part OF the
$12 600 600 which their operations cost
France was fruitless. The Humberts
had apparently foiled the detectives at
Liverpool by going to the Cunard line
office. as if to engage passage, and them
sailing by some ether line.
At the same time that the two Slow
ships sailed for Philadelphia one left
for Halifax and watch is being kept
by the British authorities there as well
as by the police at Philadelphia.
There is likelihood, too. that the
Humberts may have sailed for South
American port in order to get to
country with which France has no eX'
tradition treaty. Detectives here be-
lieve that Nine Therese Humbert, who
conceived and executed the gigantic
swlndle, is too clever to be caught.
How 1t Was Done.
Those concerned in the gigantic
Hu1nbert swindle are Frederic Hum
bert. his wife, Therese, to whom the
whole scheme is credited; her sister.
Maria d'Aurignac; two brothers OF the
women. Roman d'Aurignac and Emil
d'Aurgnac, and Eva Marie Humbert,
The latter young girl, was still I'M
born when the great conspiracy had ITS
inception and has grown up perhaps as
much victim of her fathers ana
mothers misrepresentation as any one
in Paris. She was allowed $4,000 a
month for pin money and received. II
is said. more offers of marriage than
any other young woman in Paris.
The big swindle began in the seven
ties. when Nine. Humbert appeared as
a claimant to Il portion of the property
of "Kobert Henry Crawford New
Yorker, who was represented TO nav"
died in Paris leaving an estate OF SO
900. 900. Mime. Ilumbert filed what pur'
ported to have been the will of the mil
ionaire. and then two reputed brothers
Of Crawford appeared and filed another
will. Litiuution was begun, and in com
pliancc with French law the property
was sealed hy the court without eX'
animation. Therein lay the essence of
the fraud, for Nine, Humbert supplied
the envelopes the court sealed. They
were said to contain securities worth
many millions
While these reputed millions were in
litigation for twenty years or more
Mime. Humbert on one side ana the
"brothers" on the other borrowed ON
their expectations. Paris bankers loan
ed $4,000, 0OO Londoners one-tifth as
much. Within the last two months
only was suspicion aroused, and then
the envelopes We're opened by court Or
der after being taken from a safe that
for twenty years had been guarded by
armed men day and night. Blank pa
pers filed the envelopes.
The Humberts had fed the day be
FORE May Z. Beyond Liverpool they
have not definitely been traced