The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-13

date makers and started with Valen- tine de Merelli from Paris to Havre by way of Saint-Gerfnain, where they dined: Nantes, where they passed the night; Vernon, where they took cof- fee Rouen, where they bought some sugar candy, and Yvetot where they lunched. About 100000 francs were ex- pended in preparations for the yacht ing trip. They dined at Frascati's. at HaVre, and late in the evening embark ed on the Catarina, together with Mime. de Merelli's spFightly French maid, who had come from Paris by train. Next morning, just as the Catarina was steaming out of Havre, M. Hahn, a Acknowledgements, proceeding across the bows of the yacht, was lev cling his camera at Gallay and Valen- tine de Merelli, who were on the bridge beside the captain-he having supposed they were a Russian grand duke and isis companion. They both turned their backs before the click of the camera, md Gallay, frowning upon N. Hahn, said: "Get out of the way or will H:;n you down or throw you overheard. How can you be such frightful cad as to take photographs here without permission.
 The Cartarina sailed from Havre on August ?. She touched at Las Palmas for coal and fresh provisions on August 10. and arrived at Bahia, Brazil on August 23, when, in pursuance of cable messages from the French govern- ment, Gallay was taken by the Bra zilian authorities, and 975,000 francs in banknotes, besides jewels and a wardrobe sufficient for several genera tiOns, was found on the yacht, and where, by means of the elastic web of diplomacy, Gallay and Valentine de Merelli are at the date of the present writing, seeking to obtain their liberty. The voyage was a diverting one, for Mime. de Merelli, in fair weather, had her piano on deck and played and sang to the crew, who danced and enjoyed themselves. Gallay supplied the off, cers of the yacht, and the physician, Dr. Horace Kaplan, whom he had en- gagged in Paris at salary of $20G a month for the voyage, with excellent champagne and choice cigars.
 It is somewhat pathetic to note that all that the Paris police found in the sumptuous apartments of this twenti- eth century Mime. de Bovary, in the Rue Gustave Flaubert, was a manu- script carefully rolled up and tied with 8 pink ribbon, and hidden in a porce- lain vase with withered violets. The sheets of paper were closely covered with Valentine de Merelli's long wavy handwriting, and bears the title, My Romance. La Vie nest dune Chi
 aere!" In the apartment in the Rue Francois Premier which Gallay had hired upder the false name of Baron de Gravel was found, beside the book written by him on the mechanism and the handling of the motor cars, man. uscript that turned out to be a treat ise on navigable balloons and auto boats, which Gallay had written in ac- cordance with the request of we'll 1 known firm of Paris publishers. This escapade of Gallay and Valentine de Merelli, which extended over four ! thousand miles, which put the diplo- macy and the police of two continents in motion, and in the course of which l two millions of francs were fraudulent i ly distracted from the coffers of one of the most circumspect and most conser- vative financial establishments, in Flu rope, is. the topic of the hour for all Paris.-Paris correspondent of the New York Tribune