Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-10-27 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TWO FRENCH RASCALS.  The swindler Prado, who, sincq his arrest, has been charged with the murder of Marie Aguetin, will, it is announced, be tried in Paris early in November. , Before the Examining Magistrate he has confessed being the author of numerous robberies and of breaches of confidence, but he will not admit being guilty of the murder with which he is charged, though the evidence against him is very strong Questioned the other day by the Examining Magistrate as to his real name, Pin& reflected a moment, and then replied that the truth was his mother bad been one of the Ladies of Honour of the Empress Euganie, and that his father was Napoleon 111. Another great swindler, who can boast of having rivalled Altmayer, hos just been arrested at Caen. In July, 1887, he had been captured by the police in Paris, and was being conducted from the dejs'it to the Examining Magistrate's office, when he effected his escape in the most daring manner. Before being introduced he begged the two soldiers who had charge of him to allow him to enter a private place in the Palais de Justice. The men waited outside the door, but their prisoner not returning, they at length opened it, and discovered he had squeezed himself through the window, and thus reached a ledge of projecting stonework. He had walked along it, passing in front of the windows of several offices full of people, who took him to be a gasman preparing for the illumination of the palace on the national fete. At length Valneuve, as he then called himself, found the window of an empty room open. He entered it, and quickly descending the stairs was soon in the street. Since this time he had, till the other day, baffled the police, though he continued making dupes wherever he went, and committing largo robberies. To give an idea of the extent of his malversations, it will be enough to say it is an established fact that, in less than two months, he spent £2400. When arrested at Caen, where he had committed numerous robberies, he was going under the name of Count de Marsan, and it is uncertain whether his identity with Valneuve would have been suspected had it not been that he attempted to escape from the police in a manner similar to that employed by Valneuve. While being taken to prison he begged to be allowed to go to his room in tha hotel to fetch something. The request was complied with, but he had no sooner reached it than he got out of the window, and tried to escape by the roof. He was re-captured when, by getting down a water-pipe, he had imagined himself to be once more free. He was brought to Paris, and has been recognised as being neither Valneuve nor Count de Marsan, but Pierre Jeanolle, malefactor already condemned to ten years' penal servitude.  THE Bradford police have apprehended a young woman, named Maria Coroner, on a charge of sending letters signed ...Jack the Ripper" to the local press and the chief constable. The girl is good-looking, respectably dressed, and in regular work at one of the leading drapery establishments in Bradford. Several written references to Jackson, the Manchester murderer, and a card of Berry, the hangman, carefully wrapped in silk paper, were found in her possession. She was remanded on a charge of inciting to a breach of the peace. Tan first stage in the education of the young Ring Alfonso