The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-29
Entire Bunch of Noted Swim
dlers Landed in Paris.
Arrived Today from Madrid
Where Arrest Was Made.
CAUSES MORE TALK
Than Any Event Since the
Homecoming of Dreyfus.
Mile. Eva Insists on Staying by
Her Mother.

Paris, Dec 29.-The members of the
Humbert family, who were recently ar
rested in Madrid in connection with the
great safe frauds in this city. arrived
at Orleans railroad station here at 7:40
o'clock this morning. There was no
demonstration. The prisoners were con-
Quoted to the Conciergerie prison.
The arrival of the fugitives was de-
void of sensational incidents as the
French police had chosen an hour for
their return here when Paris was only
half awake The crowd at the railroad
station was comparatively small but a
large force of police and soldiers,
mounted and on foot was drawn up in
front of the station and guarded all the
street approaches in order TO prevent
the possibility of a demonstration. A
number Of the chief functionarieS of the
prefect were on hand to personally su-
pertntend the prisoners arrival The
men and women OF the HumDert party
were kept separate during the trip from
Madrid to Paris and they were brought
from the train In two separate parties
The women came first leaning on the
arms of officers.
Madame Humbert was dressed in
black and was yelled but was readily
recognized by her stout figure Her
young daughter Eva was the most
pathetic looking of the women. Madame
Humbert was followed by her sister
Marie, who did not show the bravado
she exhibited at Madrid, but was pale
and appeared disconsolate Frederick
Humbert, Madame Humbert's husband,
looked completely broken down. Ro-
main D'Aurignac and his wife Emile
maintained the calm defiant attitude
D'Aurignac still wore Spanish beard
which had served him as a disguise.
The party passed through double lines
of police to the carriages in waiting.
surrounded the vehicles, which were
driven at a rattling pace through the
gathering crowds to the Conciergerie.
where minute preparations had been
The The return urn Of the the Hunibers to Paris is
causing discussion in Paris indeed
througho France as no event since the
return of Dreyfus has aroused such in
terest. All classes are interested as the
Humberts operations were SO colossal and
so interviewer with some of the foremost
personages in France that their return
/ was viewed with apprehension. Crowds
from all parts of the city were ready to
assemble at the station and give the pris-
oners a disorderly reception. but the Sec
recy of the police baffled the plans of the
mobs and permitted the Humberts to be
landed silently and swiftly inside the grey
walls of the prison. The public had
doubted the sincerity of the government
/ in ever attempting to bring back the
/ fugitives, owing to the political and social
shock which was sure to follow; but the
arrival of the prisoners is now generally
accepted as showing the purpose of the
authorities to spare no means, for the
prosecution and punishment of the ac-
cused. The plans for the prosecution of
the Numbers have not yet been an
nounced.
Owing to the belief of the authorities
that Eva Humbert was the innocent vic
tim of her mothers operations, they pro-
posed to entrust her to the custody OF
| her grandmother. Nine Gustave Hum
| bert, widow of the former minister of
Justice in the De Freycient cabinet. but
Mile. Eva positively declined the proposal
declaring her purpose to remain with her
mother in prison. The attitude of the girl
excites universal sympathy.