Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-08

sang for its members made the completion
Of the evidence against them impossible.
One receiver, named Brunus, was tried with
the others at Amiens, but acquitted. The
Judge began by telling the jury that Brunus
regularly melted down the stolen silver
ware and Jewelry settings for the gang.
THAT your must prove" said Brunus' law
yer. Andre Hesse, one of the big men of the
Paris bar.
1--WE shall prove It." said the judgeI
give you this TO show you how a. judge may
talk in France.
You ought to begin by proving 1t, not
asserting It," said Andre Hesse.
See here, maitre," the judge answered,
don't begin your Paris ways here; We
don't understand them"
4. The stocks and bonds section. Two
men and three women-Jacob's old mother,
LaZarine Roux, his wife, and lady who Is
supposed to be now in America-composed
1t. They had accounts in two banks, Paris
and Lyons; and between those two cities
they fioated the securities they found. One
witness told how they took 1000 francs
worth of jewelry and securities from his
villa. but that they failed to discover 100000
francs worth of railway shares payable to
bearer.
Going Back for More.
"Yes," said Ferrand one of the members
against whom the evidence was strongest
and who generously took it on himself to
confess things to save others. my indica-
tIoHs tolu there ought 10 De Il DuucH VI
railway shares, and 1 was going back to
have another hunt for them when 1 read
in The Progress of the Somme' that the
burglary had been discovered
Ferrand got fifteen years. Jacob on
whom nearly every completed case was
tried to be fixed, got twenty years. The
silent youth, his companion, took on him
self both the shooting of the policeman and
the brigadier and so has a life sentence.
Twelve others of the band got varying
TO FROM ,itNn 70 five saplN hut
is a curious commentary on present-day
criminal affairs that nine persons out of ten
conclude by saying: The gang stood to-
gether; after a few years the others will
escape from Cayenne
1t is upon Jacob in particular that the adj
miration of the populace has settled as
what would you think?-a high-minded per-
son of exalted sentiments. who showed gen.
crosby to the poor, robbed only the rich,
and made burglary an instrument of social
reyindica tionsi
Captain Eden testified to the robbing of
his villa. Among other things taken were
100 shares of S. stock
Worth mighty little" interrupted Jacob.
There were 1,2C0 francs WORTH insisted
the captain
Burned the Shares.
It'll bet you bought it from a financier
decorated with the Legion of Honor" said
Jacob HE robbed you with the aid of the
law--the shares were worth so little that |
burned them, if you want to know it!'
Concerning 10000 francs worth of jewels
taken from the chateau of Madame de Pom
taumont at Cherbourg, he said:
Shes capitalist, noble and an enemy;
L don't regret it!' Madame de Sapicourt
testified to the loss of 12,C90 francs worth
of jewels at Reims. Another chatelainer'
commented Jacob; shes not in want even
nowr
1t cannot be denied that he reused gem
eral admiration by taking everything on
himself that might lift evidence from weigh
ing on other members of his band, and his
gayety of mind caused columns to be de-
voted TO MIN in the papers. One old lady
testified that she recognized Jacob-his face
struck her. Il thought it the face of an
artist!' she said
'Tiens, you're an intelligent SOUL" broke
in Jacob. ''Ill send you some lace when l
get through with all thisr'
A M. de Witasse testified that the bur
glars must have been interrupted at his
country place because they left a big silver
service piled on the dinner table.
Now you're Dragging, NJ de Witasse." he
laughed. We left it expressly. 1t wasn't
silver at all, but just plated Stuff
Robbery of Church.
The cure of Brumetz told how his church
had been robbed of many valuables; and he
recognized Bour, the silent youth as being
one of the guile parties. Strangely enough,
Bour had been of his choir boys He
was a good boy, gentle and obedient," said
the good cure.
And it's in the name of Christian charity
that you accuse Bour, isn't it?" asked Jacob.
He robbed us; L was obliged to say it,
answered the priest.
IF some one should take your cloak would
you offer him your coat?' inquired Jacob;
but here the judge stopped him and the cure
was spared the pain of answering.
One of the church robberies that Jacob adj
mitted was the taking from the Cathedral
of Tours the famous tapestries of the sew
enteenth century, The Wise Men, The |
Nativity" The Flight in Egypt and
Jesus and the Doctors"
Il had designed to sell the tapestries to !
some rich American amateur" said Jacob. |
They have been buying so many doubtful |
antiques and art objects that it seemed to |
me they ought to be willing to pay a big |
price for authentic ones"
why didn't you do it?' asked the Judge |
'Oh, l reflected" answered the strange |
burglar those American millionaires must |
be exploiters just like ours ITEMS, they all |
disgust me! L simply told my wife to cut |
those hangings down to fit the four walls of |
my bed room; and 1 found it soothing to |
study them on Sunday mornings"
STERLING HELLO.