Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-17

(M Haas, the Partisan financier who loaned
Therese 100000 francs and continued IN
credulously confidential relations with her
up to the day of her flight She must lave
left Paris with at least 100000 francs in
cash.
1.-The very day before she absconded Nine.
Humbert came to me, as she pretended, to
ask last SERVICE" says NJ. Haas.
A Plausible Excuse
"Day after tomorrow the court officers
ard notaries are to come and open the great
freproef safe to verify the 100, 900, 900 francs
of French government bonds of the Craw-
ford estate held by me as sequestrator,' she
explained. The sequestratIon will be lifted
and as we shall doubtless come to an un-
Outstanding with the Crawford nephews 1
shall enter at once into the enjoyment OF
my millions.
but, continued Nine Humbert, as 1t is
going to be a delicate thing to realize on
100000, 600 francs worth of French 3 per
cents, will you be kind enough to take
charge of their sale on the Bourse, in lots,
SO that their price will not be sent down?
] have my creditors to pay, and just at
present 1 have only about 1000, 900 francs
in bank notes
''She showed me the bank notes." says
NJ. Haas. There must have been 100000
francs in 1000-franc notes.
This was the last, but not the first, time
that Nine. Theresa Humbert had displayed
good money in great sums to her creditors
NJ. Duret, the receiver of the Girard Bank,
who forced her to borrow some 10000
francs with which to pay his clients, the
directors, what she owed them has told
how she deceived an unfortunate friend Of
his family, NJ. o, in spite of NJ. Durets
repeated warnings. Instead of profting by
the information the infatuated NJ. o.
ran to ThereSe and told her all about It!
Thanks for your confidence, dear
friend" she answered. And now I am
going to do for you what have never
done for any one. Come with me. 1 will
show you the contents of the safe"
She led him up to the small room on
the second floor in which the mysterious
safe was kept. She opened it's doors, and
NJ. O. perceived 1t to be crammed full
Of great bulky envelopes.
Looked ALI Right.
There are the Crawford millions" she
said. According to the elaborate lie con-
cocted by herself and her advisers and
maintained in the French courts for seven
teen litigous years, madame was bound by
compromise contract with the Crawford
heirs neither to ALLEVIATE, pledge or ex-
hibit pledge or guarantee single one
OF the securities intrusted to her custody.
Nevertheless, she took one of the fat en-
velopes.
''See.' she said to NJ. O.. TT is seal
ed with the seal of the Crawfords. Their
lawyer, Parmentier, sealed 1t week ago,
after having verified its contents with my
lawyer. l have run heated needle under
the seals, SO that / can open 1t, like this
(she lifted the flap little). When have
shown you Its contents / will warm the
seals and press them down again. The
Crawfords will know nothing"
From the bulky envelope she took a bun
die of per cent French bonds. "Coun,
Them she said. NJ O. counted bonds
to the amount of 5S7, go francs S117, 532)
which would be just one-quarters interest
on 91UO.UOO francs, less Nine. Humbert's
supposed allowance of 10000 francs a
month and brokers' commissions etc AT
the same time she showed him the law
yers' certificate that these bonds really
represented the quarterly interest of the
eloo,oo securities composing the estate
and that 1t had been thus converted by
agreement with the Crawford nephews!'
And yet these lawyers-men of renutatton
and celebrity-are still at large!
Strong Evidence.
Il. too. believed in the story at one time ;,
confesses NJ. Duret, because /, too, had
seen the contents of one of those famous
envelopes She showed them to me in july
1895; and counted 5S7 600 francs worth OF
good bonds. / remember even noticing q
ten-franc gold piece and some small change
In silver, representing Just what would have
been the excess when the new bonds ha6
been paid for. That was strongw
1t was all the stronger because, as is now
universally believed, Nine. Humbert OTTER
had hard hustling TO raise the more thar
pretended interest money on the non-exist