Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-14
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sumed an attitude of careless at
tention, and NJ. Jonquelle went on:
"On the night of the 18th OF
February, Monsieur lie Marquis,
opening the door of his apartment
at a late hour, saw a slip of paper
beside the door. At the moment the
Marquis gave this item NJ atten-
ton; it did not impress him. 1t was
late, the servants having retired,
and the Marquis withdrew to his
bedroom alone.
at appears, however, that dis
gressions of the mind occur to all
of US, even to the Marquis de CHAN
telle on the border of dreamland.
1t occurred to him that this slip of
paper was a memorandum by the
concierge to call the attention of the
Marquis upon his arrival to some
inquiry that had been made for him.
The Marquis, however. did not arise
at that hour to verify this impress
sion, but in the morning when he
awoke. he remembered it, and going
into the drawing-room in his dress
ing-gown and slippers-it was be-
fore the arrival of his valet-he
found the slip of paper where it
had remained as though it had been
slipped under the door.
1.-THE Marquis was surprised when
he came to examine this bit or
paper. 1t contained some numbers
written with a pencil and the words
in a strained, uniformed hand: The
combination of the safe Of the Mar
quis Chantelle.'
Monsieur turned at once to the
small safe which is built into the
wall of the apartment after the
American fashion. He tried the COM
bination written on the slip of pa
per, found it correct, opened the
safe and discovered that the neck
lace had disappeared
The Project of Police hesitated in
the narrative and addressed an in
quiry.
at Is true, monsieur" he said,
"that you did not know the combi-
nation of this safe, that the combi-
nation was known only to your wife,
the Marquise, and that more than
once, for example at the Cafe An
glais on the 14th of December at
midnight, when any creature from
the underworld of Paris might have
been present, you spoke of the
danger of keeping this necklace in a
small private safe in the apartment
when it should be deposited with a
banker? But to these objections the
Marquise always returned the same
answer-that she alone had the
combination of the safe? That is
true?"
"It Is true" replied the Marquis.
But it was not discreet, as after
have demonstrated. Perhaps
by these discussions we gave in
formation of the whereabouts of
this necklace to this Apache Le-
quex."
The Prefect Of Police made a
vague gesture and continued TO
speak.
THE Marquis, upon discovery of
the robbery. at once notified the
Service de la Surete; old Forneau
and an agent arrived Immediately.
Upon examination of the bit of pa
per. it proved to be a slip bearing
the name in print of Moore-Poole &
Company, a firm of American brok-
ers in Paris.
"Old Forneau at once suggested
that the robbery must have been
committed by some one from the
office of these brokers, probably an
American, since the slip of paper
must have come from some one en-
ployed in that establishment.
But here the Marquis Chantelle,
showing an intelligence superior to
that of this officer of the Surete,
pointed out that no one would come
such an adventure bringing with
him a piece of paper, and especially
an indicatory piece of paper, upon
to set down such a memoran-
dunn. 1t was far more likely that the
piece of paper had been acquired
somewhere in the apartment.
HE then suggested that an in
quiry be made to discover whether
some one from this American firm
of Moore-Poole & Company had not
at one time occupied an apartment
in the building.
"Forneau acted upon this sugges-
ton and ascertained that Monsieur
the Marquis was correct. He dis
covered a quantity of these blank
printed slips in the basement of the
building, where, with other rubbish,
they had been retained by the con-
cierge to kindle fire in the furnace.
Thus Monsieur the Marquis at
n stroke removed any suspicion
that might have been attached to
this firm of brokers and confined
inquiry to some one having ac-
cess to the building and knowledge
of it, else he would not have been in