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Show BURGLAR CONFESSES TO 150Q R01BERIES Paris Police Believe That They Have in Custody World's Champion Housebreaker. BY PAUL VTLIJERS. Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS. June 10. Paul Chicot holds the world's record for burglaries. In the course of five years he has gone about committing practically speaking one burglary bur-glary each night. He kept an account of each crime with figures to show the amount of loot and the profit received for each job. He Is under arrest. When on the point of leaving this clty the other night for Belgium with his wife. Chicot was arrested. The arrest followed a police visit to his house. Another released convict who was found in possession of a large quantity of linen said he had received it from Chicot in payment of a debt. On visiting Chicot's house the police found It filled with jewels, clocks, watches and gold and silver articles, and $15,000 in money. When arrested Chicot confessed to 1500 burglaries, which he had recorded in a notebook. For the last five years, he said, he had made burglary his "profession." "profes-sion." He would cheerfully go to prison, he said, as he had valuable jewelry and a large sum of money In a safe where the police would not find them. The criminal and his wife tvere about to go to Switzerland to spend the summer sum-mer in their country home. |