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Show HUMBERTS ON TRIAL. Parisians Very Much Wrought Up OvrNoted Swindlers. f. Tho notorious Humbort family on Saturday faced a Judgo and Jury to meet tho chargo of having porpetrat-od porpetrat-od what ex-Premier Waldeck-Kous-soaii described as "tho groatest swln-ilo swln-ilo of tho century." Investigating ?!strato Loydot In May docldod to 'famlt Thorcsa Humbort, hor hus-Sanu, hus-Sanu, Kredorlck, and her brothors, toman nnd Emll D'Aurlgnnc, for trial in tho charges of forgery, tho uso of brgod documents and swindling. Ho Ismlsscd tho caso3 ngalnst Eva Hum- rt (Thorosa's daughter) nnd Mario -ilgnac (hor sister). Public curiosity which has followod tho fortun it tho family slnco tho days ol Itn social brills.. y Is again Intense -rought up, tho chlof Intoi-est Intoi-est contorlng In "La Qrando Thorosa," who has promised to produco at this trial tho mysterious American mil-llonalrcs, mil-llonalrcs, tho brothers Crawford, on whom sho based her story of' an In-horltanco In-horltanco of $20,000,000, which sho put forward as tho socurlty for tho loans sho obtalnod, amounting to about $10-000,000. |