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Show SOLVE MUSTEK OF I : P IWAILJOBBERV 1 French Police Find Bandit to I H Be Former Employee of Jjfl Service. j M BRINGS SMALL PROFIT l Thief- Unable to Sell Securi- :'l ties, Gets Nothing for His j B Daring Feat. J H i fin i m Special Cable to The Tribune. BM PARTS, Feb." 17. Only a little mora jW than two months ago the Indian mail 1H bags were stolen on the P. I. M. ex- 1H press train between Paris and Lyous. VM The robbery caused a great sensation fl at tho time. More than thirty mail ,iW bags had been ripped open. Somo of ; Rfl the contents were scattered along the ' ,JM line and all tho valuables and securi' Wm ties in the bags carried off. The rob- .flfl ber had climbed into the van while ' jm the express was going at a terificj , 09 rato and had escaped before it !m reached Lyons. HI The police believed that two or , gW three men must have dono this work,' j jjH but it now turns out that it was all' jffl done by one man, Vincent Bazoncourt,i !gfl who tias been arrested in Brussels, j WM Ho was formerly in tho postal serv-t M9 ice 'and is the eon of a- man whose' iljfl whole life was spent in the postal ad-' jHfl ministration. ( H Familiar With Methods. 4' j I Bazoncourt, after some years of service, asked to leave the postal de- I Eartment on October 4, on the plea that I e was applying for a position in the colonies. He had, during the time of H his stay in the administration, been U employed frequently as extra in the . Ijfl mail trains to Lyons. He thus knew) U about the arrangements aud how some! of the mail vans traveled without a m After the robbery the police askedj H for the names of all the postal em-j H ployees who bad left the service some. time before, as they only could know! the secrets, and the robber was sus-i pected to bo among them. They re- mm ceived scores of names, but that of HBB Bazoucourt was not at first among T1H them. Jt was only after a new list fjNM was drawn up that inquiries wero jWU made about him. Tt was then learned BB that he had moved to anothor lodging U house, called the Hotel du Rhono, and jjH that his movements were mysterious. IjM Confesses His Crime. H Ten daj-s ago he suddenly left for JH Brussels. Ho 'was traced and arrested iWM thero a few da3s ago, aud is alleged M ,to havo confessed at onco that ho did n it all alone. He had not been able to H derive -ranch profit from tho robbery. rfHi Beforo he was ablo to negotiate auy BB securities, the names and numbers of mm these wero known and published. He HR tried, it is alleged., to wash out the Hfl numbers and change them, but the se- M curiticB were to fused as suspicious, PM and this beAraycd him. The police BH searched his room, and found about HW "10,000 worth of securities in a bag, ntH and nearly all the missing shares have BQ been recovered. SH Tho robbery, brought no profit to W Baconconrt, who lived in a wretched TBm way for the last two months, and could EH hardly pay for his room. He is de- BH scribed as weak and in bad health, amy but his former colleagues say that he HI was a tall, athletic man when ihey HI knew him, and used to be a little ec- HW centric. Some days he was verv me!- anoholy, and others he was exuberant luH and used to turn somersaults. This ox- LtHB plains how he could have executed the Iffifl robbery all alone, as it required a very mm athletic man to climb from the roof jlll of one van to anothor and smash, in a sKH window while the oxpress was going tHH at the rate of more than sixty miles jftgfl au hour. jflHl |