Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14
JEWEL ROBBERS
At THE RESORTS
MANY NOTED CASES OF FlLCH-
ING HAVE OCCURRED
All Done by One Man Who Poses as
Prince of nteneero-Caught
in the Act of Robbing an
American Lady
BY ARTHUR w. EAMoUREux

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS, Oct 13.-The season at sew
eral French watering places has been
marked by remarkable series of Jewel
robberies from the person, the victims
being mostly French, English and
american ladies'. The Paris police in
stituted a special investigation, and
discovered that practically all the rob-
berries we're committed by a man calling
himself Prince Tschilindro of Monte
negro. His modus operandi was to put
up at the best hotels, and, after in
gratiating himself with the best-dressed
ladies, to offer them chloToformed bou-
quets. The victim on smelling the
flowers would become i'll and have to
retire to her room, where, under the
pretext of rendering her assistance, the
prince" robbed her of her jewels and
decamped
Finally the police captured the man
in flagrante delicto at the Grand hotel
Paris. His victim this time was an
American lady who had accepted from
him a bouquet of exotics, and subse-
quently retired to her room in faint
ing condition. The prince who as
sisted her there, had just relieved her
or valuable diamond bracelet when
the police appeared OH the scene and
arrested him. They afterward dis
covered that his real name is David
Ramskeieff, a Russian Jew, aged thir-
ty-six.
Done at Luncheon
Drugs also played a prominent part
in little luncheon which a business
man offered to a friend who had called
at his Office. The insurance official
was about to go round to his favorite
restaurant when his friend stopped
him, and both became of the opinion
hn
ably enjoyed upstairs than outside.
So young man, who acted as a kind
of secretary, was given some money,
and he quickly returned with several
appetizipg dishes, to which the two
friends did ample justice. Then both
sank into profound stupor, from
which they Weakened some hours later.
Their lunch had been drugged, the
safe was open and gone was the Sec
retary with 81 200 and some title deeds.
He succeeded in crossing the frontier
without being caught, and yesterday
the Correctional tribunal of the Seine
sentenced him by default to five years.
imprisonment and ten years police
surveillance.
A woman has just been arrested car
rying in her arms a 4-year-old child
which had been trained to snatch
watches and scarfpins as it's mother
FAINT was seen to secure two watches
and seven pins in less than half an
hour.
League of Catholics
Mr. Henri des Houx's remarkable
League of Catholics of France
which tends toward nothing sort of
an Independent Gallican Catholic
church, under state guarantee, has is
sued a determined proclamation which
declares boldly that the Holy See "has
been circumvented by political factions,
to which the care of souls is indiffer-
ent" What are described as half
German, half Roman intrigues' are
denounced as being designed to lin
terrupt If not TO suppress public wor-
ship in France, to turn the secular
clergy out of French parishes, to re-
duce the ancient Catholic land of
France to the level of a missionaries
country, in order to hand over to am
bilious and grasping religious orders a
monopoly of private worship, which
alone Rome will recognize henceforth,
and, finally, to convert the bishops of
France into mere apostolic Wears, such
as are sent to proselytise savages."
The league goes on to advocate the inn
mediate formation of associations of
worship under the law Of 1905. which
will claim possession of churches and
church property, and thereupon apply
to the bishops that priests be appointed
whom, tho n aGcOpiatiOpe will nav