Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-26 | Page 8 | Clerk Steals $200,000

CLERK STEALS $200,000 Could Hot Keep Actresses on S60 a Month. NE"W 'YORK. Aug. 23. Paris is agog with a sensation such as It has not en-Joyed en-Joyed clnco tho Humbert case, Bays the Herald correspondent. Until tho end of July, Jean Galley was a punctual cmployco of a great Paris bank, earning earn-ing tho monthly salary of SCO. out of which ho maintained n wlfo and two children. At present he Is said to bo a fugitive aboard a chartered steam yacht, which left Las Palmas August 9 for Buenos Ayrcs. Discoveries ot clerical cler-ical manipulation In tho bank's books Indicate an alleged shortago amountlnir to about S2O0.OCO. Word was received yestorday by the police that the yacht had arrived nt Bahla, Brazil, and tho parly aboard was under arrest. A man supposed to bo Gallay declared to tho Bahla pollco thnt ho was- a Belgian. M. Hamard, chief of tho Paris detective service, Immediately Im-mediately cabled to Bahla for further news, and ordered tho Frnnch detectives detec-tives nearest Bahla to go Immediately to that town and take possession of tho prisoner as soon ns the extradition formalities aro accomplished. For somo months prior to his annual vacation, which began August 1, Gallay, Gal-lay, according to the police, had been on the best of terms with a well-known French actress. Outsido tho bank ho Is said to have used various high-sounding, high-sounding, titles and led a merry career. All this was learned during an Investigation, Inves-tigation, which began when Gallay failed to return from his vacation on thu appointed ap-pointed day. Pursuing their chase, the detectives learned that the clerk had chartered a stram yncht and sailed from JIavre with two women and a large supply sup-ply of provisions. A clue to tho alleged fugitive was obtained ob-tained through a letter mailed at Las Palmas by the maid who accompanied the actress. Detectives all over the world woro at onco Instructed to watch for the yacht.