Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-08-29 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

BURGLAR CAPTURED AT WORK. Not long ago it was reported that thieves entered the Château de Presles, the property of the President of the French Republic, and now inhabited by M. Carnot's mother, and pillaged the luggage which had been prepared overnight for the journey of Madame Carnot to the Department of the Creuze, on a visit to her brother, who was ill. The thieves carried off a large amount of silver plate and several articles of great value. The police completely failed to discover any clue to the authors of this crime. On Monday afternoon, says a Standard correspondent, M. and Madame Duplaquet, living in the Avenue de la Republique, met a fashionablydressed man whom they suspected of being the author of a robbery at their house. They followed the man, who entered a house in the Faubourg du Temple. He went up to the second floor, and was examining the lock of an apartment occupied by a merchant, when the police came up, and asked him Frederick Strasser, a native of Sussei, England, Who settled in the village of Sparta, United States, what he was doing. He said he had come to visit a friend of his, a dancing master. As no dancing was hiving bees, on Saturday when the swarm master lived in the house the man was arrested and settled on his neck. He shrieked for help, and his take this n before the Police. Commissary. The inquiry wife and a man ran to his assistanec. Just as they instituted has shewn s man to be a printer, reached him he fell dead. named Benoist Brunier, 27 years of age, living in At Mollough, West Clare, a man named Michael the Daguerre, with his father, mother, and mistress. Egan, a labourer, while under the influence of The apartment inhabited by the Brunier family was drink, on Monday, stabbed his brother John with a discovered to be furnished with great elegance, knife at the back of the head, on the temple, the which fact added to the suspicions of the police. side of the face, and lip. Neither brother will give Ln searching the house they discovered numerous information as to the cause of the affair, pawn-tickets for objects of great value, jewels, The heavy rains of the past two days have pre- Sévres porcelain, &c. Several of the articles menduced extraordinary floods in North Westmoreland. tkoned on the tickets were recognised as having The River Eden was overflowing its banks on Tues- come from the Chateau de Presles. Brunier's parents day morning, flooding the dwellings, and imprison- confessed to the Police Commissary that their son ing the inhabitants in the upper storeys, and wash- had always had large sums of money in his possesing away the sheep, cattle, and hay crops. sion, and his mistress declared that only recently Five intoxicated Germans were arrested on Sun- his pocket book contained bank notes for 5,0001. day evening on the Quai Voltaire, Paris. They Cross-questioned by the Police Commissary, Brunier were raising cries of "Down with France!" "Down confessed his guilt,and gave the name of his accomwith Russia!" and, but for the intervention of the , plice, Arlio is a soldier, named Landry, garrisoned police, they would have been seriously maltreated 'at Mayenne. It is believed that Brunier is the at the hands of the crowd which had assembled 'thief of a well-oreanised sang of housebreakers.  Percy Greathead, described as a gentleman, was charged, at the Worship-street Police-court, on Saturday, with presenting a loaded revolver at Margaret Sweeney. He stated that he went to see the scene of the Whitechapel murders, and overhearing remarks which he thought applied to him, he produced the revolver. He had been drinking heavily. He was remanded in custody.