Show D DARKEST BRUSSELS CAPITAL STARTLED BY MANY MURDERS MUrt DERS at the tile lips iia I 1 of a t dune tang ang VV tm fin 1141 f for of their jobje t for nn an I 1 I 1 dundr A I 1 one ong I 1 lt tolt of rini I 1 I 1 r inquiry into the murder ut of the aged baroness her iler r an Sc herpin berg willing to tho the arrest of alt gindre courtois Cour formerly int chief of 0 police pollee has brought A to light one of the g r e idest crimin il it co n 8 p I 1 11 I 1 idea on record in brussels belgium the baranc b s eighty eight eira e ira old lived at no 7 hue title de I 1 arbre benit a suburb on sundi coining april 26 she was discovered by I 1 i maid mald unav ant in bed with a number of bluish enrka about her nock neck and a gaping wound in her tier head the closets ets of the room had been forced and r the small safe sn in which the baroness barones hid 33 35 trams 7 some bonds and stocks and rare family levels and plate had been carried off two tino 1 irge NN witch itch dogs were a ere in the ard they never before had tailed failed to tu announce inn ounce an anything thing unusual after nightfall the baro rims lap dog was la in the room when the murderer entered but made no sound the servants berv said thit th it the tile baroness barones son re turned home about 2 30 i 1 m sunday he ile found everything as sauil except that the lap dog wis was in the lower alvill hillway ay the street door was listen fisten ed the ints ts had retired and all was quiet As the appe appearance trance ot of the small dog in the lower hall was not un usual the young mm min went ment to bed two men residing in the bime street while on their way home about 2 a ra sunday saw two persons standing opposite the house but their description of those mas most meaner on that sund ay iy to anoon a well dressed fine looking man presented himself at U the office of a broker on the bourse shops are kept open in that country on bunday sunday morning he ile said he was mas an artillery officer and gave gae hia his name as lefebvre he lie had lust decided to in go to golit with some other off officers leers to buy hofsas he lie had six bonds of 1000 francs each which he be wanted to negotiate in order to get cash for the prospective nur chases the numbers of the stolen bond snot then having been posted the broker made the usual advances on monday morning a farmer living in the commune I 1 ceus st found I 1 the baroness site in i wheat field broken open and lla its contents gone that morning the numbers of the stolen bonds were ere posted on the bourse and the broker who had made the advances to the supposed army officer told of the circumstances it developed that there was as no officer named lefebvre in the service A number of photographs of persons answering the broker a of the I 1 I 1 of officer fleer were acre ud iud I before him and he picked out one is 14 the picture of the man an who got mone from him tor for the bonds it was i i photograph of NI courtois Cour formerly assistant chief of police in brussels NI M courtois Cour was as arrested he ile said I 1 there must be some mistake the broker had not previously known him hiving having located in Brus brussels seli after the assistant chief had retired from the police service NI courtois Cour was mixed up lip w with ith a lot of pilson pil sonere ers and the broker was asked it the man who mid him the bonds was awing the gumbe numbe without hesitation he pointed to M courtois Cour the chief a house was A ALEXA ALEXANDRE couR Tors searched the pl ite was found add slid a coit coat which contained the balance of the stolen bonds its IN sleeves showed spots of blood and iliva siliva s in other clothing were found miny pawn tickets and in the cellar a large quantity of pawn receipts issued bv bi brokers in cities remote from brussels which were regarded as evidence of other crimes finally finall he admitted having haing been con berned in the negotiating of the bonds but denied complicity in the murder finhen hen it was anon knon that the ex ei no po lice official was in jill per ons who e mouths had been scaled began to glio gio information it was bias recalled that he bad had been accused of the robbery of th the 0 countess of fijn rian I 1 irra an and d Coli conein tILL k 11 u a poll polio ohp clearing ill P iho he 11 then cl docket bullish I 1 I 1 11 ii mi I 1 indik d i Q countiss Coun of I 1 lan tall li 1 1 h hig i 1 ic tiona at oil tonit KIL I 1 bigl 1 sh hii lal ippie I 1 fc fru the tile snorts to dealt ru arder N ith the arrest 0 f th efto 0 ind knuty t the he brota courton Cour ilso 1180 fonner doll police and three women nine t the he sens il III report thit this lait la it t murie murd only one of 1 i I birge tin com in brussels and its vicinity la ill or eight vars b bv i bind 0 of and assassins of n F fi X av A chief of 1011 courtois Conr toia ii belle acl have hae hem the tile leider it is thought co helped carry out the tile robbery counter countess of I 1 lai Illi iders deri it I 1 la 3 re rei that he re detail I 1 ertain pol e leers on in the night 0 ut that famo amo i beri ber rn I 1 during i ban when policemen hid 1111 bon deti is buirl the ahe I 1 lie theory 1 li fait CoUl coultous and 1114 o 0 J Is them his present wife A lie ha I 1 so 0 am arr matters that the gobberg rob liers kalled m to the secret bissit idling leiling i her palace and arid th ahn it courtois Conr Cour thea then i devillen de tilled the policemen not in hl al hit thit the robbers were A we a al au leave leme the p ilace u without the of mrs irs boekel bo ekel aa p tr children is Is also re cilke jhc thc th ibe I 1 gone to visit jenice in ier brusac asap midway plaisance on a a nail sea set j 1 la believed they the took i cab aft concert to drive back to the city awo were eil evidently dently driven in a wro an at an appo appointed spots poi ire COMPI compilers lees took them from th fair murdered mur derel dereI them and threw th i t h it de I 1 tre aral we 10 T go v ADO LIll COURTOIS to into the canal mrs boal el vi was as k ego to carry ill her mono and je lei i her berbon u no mone or lec jewel found in n the bodies bodle 4 the mig ma aho ho conducted cc cor ducted the inquiry now no C ill it Is spited that ever eer effort tk pre liend the guilty parties wu w if by courtois Cour i 1 ma the lice robbert wio ft k the ludloff street lit ain in ne new le have been in jill in months charged with a jewelry N bery at ostend it la Is noa claim thea the are Inna innocent cent of the latter tr hut but that members of tin courto our toll t committed the deed and reco tda these american crooks ran W tl tr tor for it the Ame american Amerl cin gin fitting ning applied for 00 these 1 robbers robber but tt the effused et used until the men hal hai served sen time given them for this robber robbery finding of further evidence of 0 tb pal eions of courtois Cour and his acco ii aty result in turning thee post poi robbers over to the american ait a to ties the gang with which Cour courte tr rounded himself was in the hate h 5 proves of making sweethearts hearts a of ante ants in rich families who kep k ho gang posed aa as to the conte content ritsO yan houses and the actions of masters one of he late baroness bi mail ants has luddeni sud deni 11 appeared announced that her aith aither er had th from a building and she must go gi to see him before he died invez in tion proves th hit thit it the accident ident I 1 happened but thus tar far the del dete t have been unable to docite ber her thought that she either made it 11 P ble for the ile assassin to a secrete JV in the baroness room or to ente en ad house unobserved one plan of robbing resi residences denCel tributes tri buted to courtois Cour is as novel aas successful chell hen he though tho large amount of money or V vidual leable belr vias nas kept in a hoil house it is I 1 alss a 4 that he lie would mould send some pals to t 0 1 a feint at robbery these feint U i ai I 1 consisted in sabinc out the 1 4 lel I 1 entrance or the front door evidence that robbers had tried tc N in through lower windows In dolls or ce was the head of the house na data reported the case to the pallet r tola would go to the house the fl would show him where the v ft bere ere he would tell hon hola to guard guar t k and in a abort short time the house ba be robbed courtois Cour Court DIR parents who ho hit 11 bruges were soon to celebrate diamond A wedding edding but the aged fa 0 o on hearing of his son sons e arrest arro t ind details of the crimes d I 1 and his gang Is said sald to have f slit a fit of apoplexy and is now dow to be dying A pink parasol ali a a lends 1 bev I ins ing tint to ane fair owner I 1 cb |