The Washington times., 1905-09-17

"
Life Is Only a Chimera." She now
has much added experience to help
her in this work. Galley, too, was
an author, having written volume
which was published some time ago,
under the title of The Automobile
for Polite Folks"
II is certain that one person who
helped TO lead Galley into profigacy
was certain international spy with
whom he worked, and with whom he
made journeys On matters connected
with police espionage TO Germany
and Spain.
Everything is possible in France
Already the political" question has
teen limited at by the prisoner at
Bahia. Ii seems ridiculous that
there could be anything political
conneste5 with the career of a COM
mon swindler. but every great "af-
fair" in France has an underplot,
and il. would be strange if Galley's
was for many years the first excep-
ton. He has limited that he has
revelations" to make On political
and other matters connected with
the secret service. and that this is
why he has been arrested. But the
cables from Brazil report both him
self and his beautiful companion as
being not at III worried.
Ca6fed for Their Arrest.
The arrival of the yacht at Bahia
had been preceded but a few hours
by the receipt by the Brazilian police
of cablegram giving descriptions
Of Galley, Nine Sohet and Marie
Audot, the latter's maid, from NJ.
Hamard. the head of the Partisan
detective force, and ordering their
arrest
Quickly a reply was received, tell
ing of the arrest and the capture of
more than 100000 aboard the yacht.
To describe the events that led up
to this climax one must go to the
beginning of this really interesting
history.
1t was on August is that small
paragraph appeared in the Paris
newspapers announcing that the pub
lie prosecutor had received 4 COM
plant from the Compton, d'Es-
compile, the well-known banking es-
Enlistment, against an employee
who disappeared on August Is. In
going through the mans papers the
Compton had found proofs of fraud
amounting to over s250,000.
Jean Francois Galley, the clerk in
question, had through his position
in the transfer office, been acquaint-
ed with the names of the chief Gus
toners and the amounts of their de-
posits, and it was this knowledge
that he turned TO his own advantage
With the aid of three or four women,
who did what he required of them
for small commission, he opened
several small accounts in various
branch offices of the Compton d Es-
compile.
Secured q Handsome Yacht.
The modus operandi was for one
of his accomplices to open an ac-
count with S100 or $3.50 Soon after
ward Galley would advise the chief
cashier that one of the banks Gus
toners with large deposit had
given instructions for the transfer
ence to the accomplices account of
considerable SUM The letters
from the customers giving these Or
ders 20 transfer were cleverly forged.
The transference would be made,
and a day or two later Galley-al-
ways through the accomplice-would
withdraw a large sum from the &C
count What would seem TO be even
more remarkable and showed an
extraordinary laxity in the discipline
OF this bank, is that invariably the
clerk was able to intercept the letter
to the important customer informing
him that the transference he had
ordered had taken place.
Galley was meanwhile carefully