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Show II snwnrAr OA TiT p? 1 ; NEWS GATHEREDM iB FOREIGN PAGEL- I mm BURGLAR . EXPOSED BY FIAWCEE Young Woman, While Playing in r Private Theatricals, Sees Him l Take Diamond Necklace. ! NEEDED MONEY TO MARRY 1 1 Love Lorn Youth Taught to Steal '! by Rascal Who Took Booty I and Disappeared. ' 'BY PAUL VILLIERS. Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS. April 22. Mademoiselle Do i Harriet's romance Is over. Her fiance ; ' will be seen no more In the gay society i in which ihey moved. I The young man Is In pri?on. Maurice 1 Lescaut. though this (s not his real name Is the son of a Judeo who died four years . apn at Polters. Maurice was sent 10 I study law on an allowance .Insufficient j for hlfr tastes. He led a happy life: until ' -1 1n; debts became too pressing and tho J aciuoinlnnees Just the reverse. To com- j plicate matters still further, he fell In ! s On evening when both had consumed a lot of champagne, a casual friend of the voting man told Maurice of an easy j way xo get money. Maurice had told Pedro Gonzales that I he was In love, and had explained that I money was the only bar to marriage. Gonzalez, who claimed to be the son of an ex-prcslrtent of a South American re-I re-I public, - explained that in- Paris money I "was to be had quite easily. IW . . Fiancee Scos Theft. H ' "If you will Join me." he told Maurice, j "you can in a few months make suffi-H suffi-H clont to marry." j So" Maurice became a gentleman bur-Hi bur-Hi glar. Ills, name procured him admission M everywhere, and his Mophistophcles was j , ulways at hit? elbow. M Maurice and Gonzalez were the thieves, I hut though lie' confessed that much for HI Maurice cares no more what becomes of W him. he has refused to say where the jewelry has gone and Gonzalez has van- Ished. There was a ball al. the house of some rich South Americans. A revue was played by the friends of the audl- once, but half way through the socond act there came a cry of horror from the B stage, and Miss Do Unmet, who played . the leading part, fell fainting. A doctor sprang on tho stage, and In a I few momenta revived her. but It was onlv to fall Into hysterics and to point to tho m back of the drawing room. Between her sobs tho girl was hoard to say. K Teaches Youth to Steal. K "Thore. there, behind the palms. I j saw his hand! 1 saw lllm take the neck-i neck-i lace and I saw his face!" There was. a Bi shriek from an armchair In front, of the palms to which she pointed. The lady m who sat there had clapped her hand to j her neck and missed a diamond necklace. BJ Immediately there was an uproar, but B) among the guests, who hunted both for Bi the necklace, which was worth $33,000. flj and the thief, there wore detectives, and BJ one learned that one of the guests had B slipped out of the room. They gave m chase, As they passed the open door of B ihe hostess's bedroom they noticed an Bj empty jewel casket, on the floor, rue thief had helped himself as .he' passed m through the bedroom leading out. lo the K servants' staircase and as tho defectives j' followed "they heard tho smash or glass Bf and saw him clamber through the- win-Hi win-Hi jow to the roof. They followed. Maurice j for the thief, of course, was Maurice flj nad them at, bay nearly an hour with the H revolver, but he was tlnally caught, flj DurlriK the last oicht months jewelry Bin, to the amount of JT.'iO.OOO has disappeared W from houses at which dinner parties and E other entertainments were In progress. 8 South Americans, have been the principal losers The" police have tried hard to S stop the crimes, |