| Show woman X tom an catches paris raffles raff es fashionably dressed thief looted many houses before he was finally trapped parts Pari parts boasts of a gentleman burglar la in the he pe person rillOn of one ono serge alenri louis de do lm leuz a young man mall of good family fashionable appearance and extravagant tastes but with degenerate tendencies and a R long cri crill naf dar record hie trial however rubbed off oft most of the glamour Dur of 0 his career as a gentleman if it not ax as a master of his profession leux leus la Is thirty years old and Is the son of a former director of the franco bonk bank ile lived a good deal of the time with bis his parents in the th 4 suburb of neuilly while pursuing without their knowledge his doable double existence in paris as a maz of th the world and a housebreaker house breaker wax was educated at the bunot lyceum and the paris parts school of electricity before the war he be erred served in the cavalry but wax was discharged ax As unfit because of frequent attacks of hy by teria in 1014 be enlisted in the military supply train ax as a it camion driver ue ile eoon soon deserted however and having baying also been accused of theft wax was transferred after arrest to an am african battalion he asked to be seat sent to the root front and behaved creditably there for a while obtaining two citations cita tlona for bravery but once more be deserted he wae was again arrested arre eted and was put into the combatant noncombatant non force forem three time times a deserter ter ile deserted a third time and was we thrown out of thearty th the army earmy in november 1820 he was sentenced to two yeara imprisonment for burglary but wa was boon soon released under the general annesty amnesty since then it Is in estimated that he be bas has committed 33 robberies 23 ot 0 them involving housebreaking he Us operated almost exclusively be tween noon and mind I 1 p V to in when moat most of the apartment house concierges conder gea are at meals na was always dressed and carried his tools in a small bag something like 1 a I brief cam ue he stole only articles of etue u atle weight and high value leux leas was vu caught a few weeks ago through the vigilance of a con concierge derga she saw a young man with a ump limp enter the houe house but asked no questions lons mistaking him for the son of the own er presently he came oat out again bag in hand band ted him too you dont know whom you are talking to he said contemptuously but she insisted on an explanation 1 I am a wounded soldier he went on more ingratiatingly 1 I just stepped in here to rearrange my brace I 1 dada didn t think it was necessary nece seary to ring at your office trapped by janitress ile then away and entered a neighboring hause apu tift janitress be came suspicious and followed him she told the other concierge to go for a policeman while she detained the stranger st minger here Is a thousand franc note for you the latter said becoming alar alarmed meol the concierge refu refused sett it IL have pity on me he pleaded 1 I have a trek mother the second concierge appeared w with ith the officer who arrested serge at the police potice station they found that he car ried a complete burgi burglars aes kit he cen fessel and even furnished the police with a full list of his robberies robber iee he its valued the articles which he had stolen at francs but said that he ht had realized very little on those be he sold through stolen goods rec elvera at hie his trial it was brou brought out that he be had bad a passion for stealing since early youth he bad robbed bis his school mates he ze had bad been arrested four times before the war for or theft and even times in A all before the two concierges con derges trap trapped him leux made rude the claim thaw that he corn cora fitted us his crime crimes while under the in fluence of darl dot but the who examined him declared him to be b |
