Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-11
CHIEF DETECTIVE MAKES CONFESSION
 OF BEING ROBBED
M. Hamard of Paris Tells Charming Joke on
 His Own Self
MAN ON CRIDIRON


 Corps. who has just taken the place of M. Mauquin, who was at the head of all French detectives outside Paris has just made an amusing confession of how he was recently outwitted by criminal whom he had under cross examination. The occasion was a lit tie gathering. at which NJ. Hamard $ promotion was celebrated by friends.
 Every policeman has made mis. takes more than once" said M. Ham ard, and a policeman's mistakes are his best teachers. The man who thinks that he IS always right, or thinks that he can not be blamed for the mistake be has just made because--will never do much good. But am not here to lecture.
 We had received information that Arsene Dubois Dubois will S very well as there are journalists present, |" laughed Nj. Harmard) was the real ring leader in the burglaries of, let us say, the Rue du Bar; that he was probably one Of the Rue 0rcener high waymen and that he was a notorious coiner. It appeared to me that a few moments conversat@n with M. Duboise (Arsene) might be useful
 Two quiet little men sitting in a corner of the room nodded their heads they remembered arresang Dubois. lie had given some trouble. Yes, {" nodded NJ Hamard. as though they had spoken out loud, he was rather a handful. Lr--has a scar on his head still where Dubois bit him to the bone. But that is quite irrevelant.
 Was An Angry Man
 "Arsene Dubois, after some hesi- tation. accepted my invitssion to 8 qt-tt chat" Everybody laughed. He did not let me do all the talking, though by any means, said M. Ham ard. T never had to do wite such an angry man. like that you knQS. When a man is really angry. he lets things sip out which are extremely useful to us.
 Now, l said, going straight to the root of the matter at once, just tell me where you were when the bank messenger was attacked in the Rue Ordener?' I expected denial or protest But Dubois surprised me. I was in bed he said and my con cierge can prove it.. His concierge did grove it but there was the coin ing and there were the buTgalaries. You know my system. | told him all about the burglaries, made little mis- takes in the details and gave him ey- cry opportunity of correcting them.
 Sometimes he did correct me Sometimes he did not. but he did not commit himself at all, and there was nothing like a confession. I am be- ginning to believe. said. that you are innocent, Dubois. or course 1 am innocent said the man. 1 am as innocent as you are But l ask ed, you know all the details of the Rue Ordener outrage. and you have probably your own theory Like ev- erybody else admitted the man.
 Well. then suppose you tell me how it happened, according to the theory you have formedI Dubois shrugged his shoulders. I have lost nGy days work anyhow he said. T may as well amuse you for half an hour more.
 "I placed a chair in the middle of the room There ] said That is the motor car, and my table Is the row of shops and I am the bank mes senger' Dubois sat on the chair. jumped from it, pTetended to fire at me, and at the same moment whirled me around SC that l nearly fell in all reality. That is how it was done. | should think he said
 You must have been there what ever your concierge may sayi' thun- dered at him. He looked straight back into my eyes and laughed. No no, Monsieur Hamard, he answered. I our terrible glance is historic. It may frighten confessions out of a guilty man, perhaps out of an inno- cent coward. But l am not guilty. and ! am not afraid. l have only com mitted one robbery with violence in my life. and I am not in the least ashamed of that
 Dubois assurance staggered me. But l would not be satisfied with his answer. It might be cleverness, and l knew that the highwaymen Of the Rue Ordener were clever. So l took him carefully through the whole ous- mess again from the theft of the mo tor car before the crime to the crime itself, from Paris to Dieppe, cross questioning and contradicting when I thought that 1 might wrench out or him.
 How Dubois Scored
 "I couldn't He knew nothing about the affair except what he had read in .he newspapers; he knew nothing about the Rue de Bac burglaries, and be laughed ct my accusation oi coin Ing.
 All the time. till it became most irritating, he rang in the refrain about the robbery with violence he had committed a short time ago which the police had not discovered,