| Show FAMILY OF SWINDLERS ARRESTED IN MADRID madame humbert her husband eva humbert at and madame d aurignac Aur ignoc c the brother and sister in law of mad ame humbert and their three chil dren remain amile and ana marle marie who the safe frauds in paris were arre ted by the police of madrid spain 1st 1 weel they had been in madrid since may 9 having come dl di from pans paris mile eva humber became hyster leal ical and madame cumbe t clasped I 1 arle d aurignac and her daughter I 1 in n the french public expects the trial of the famo is swindlers to prove the biggest judic al at proceedings since the dreyfus trial and as equally tar far reach ing in scandals borrowed M 11 II ons on her story the interest of all paris on may 9 last was centered on an empty safe at no 65 avenue de la grand armee it was supposed to contain 20 sum was alleged to I 1 e held in trust by madame therese humbert who un ilk 19 f 1 ava pa ad ra huragt HurB GT her arms pleading with the police not to separate her from her daughter the police made an inventory of the contents of the apartments and found a parcel of jewels valued at 2 two lottery tickets and about in cash seals were then attached to the house and the entire family talen tal en to jail and placed at the disposition of the french ambassador the occupants of the house had ought bought to escape by the windows but failed it is believed that they de strayed papers of importance before the police gained entrance the prefect of police subsequently had an audience of king alfonso and reported the capture the king con granulated him saying I 1 rejoice that our police have been able to render service to france the prefect said he had known ol 01 the presence of the humberts tor for a week but delayed taking action until he was assured that he had the entire party trapped the humberts maintain that they are innocent declare that they them selves have been victimized and ex press a desire to return to france and defend themselves against the charges the presence of 0 the humbert famil in madrid was first brought to light through an anonymous letter sent to the french ambassador mr tre who notified the spanish police pollee left by bobert robert henry crawford said to be an american millionaire this der mr air crawford s first will was con titu ted his sole legatee and who on he strength of her title to the flati fl ati bious estate succeeded bucce eded in borrowing over 12 from bankers money lenders and others in france and belgium eventually an investigation was started the humberts and others con necked with them in the operation fled from paris and on may 9 when the chief of the detective department of pans paris M rochefort Coche Coch tort efort opened the safe it biywit to light the greatest swindle of the country for the safe was found to contain nothing but at old jewel box some old papers and the official seals which had made the swindle possible the fortune having under the terms of the second will been represented as held in trust un til tit madame d aurignac madame hum bert berts s niece attained her majority when all the heirs mentioned in the two wills were to come to an amicable agreement for an equitable equi division of the property |
