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Show FAMILY OF SWINDLERS ARRESTED IN MADRID. ! Madame Humbert, her husband, Eva Humbert; M. and Madame d'Aurignac, !the brother and sister-in-law of Madame Mad-ame Humbert, and their thre children, chil-dren, Romain, Emile and Marie, who perpetrated the safe frauds in Paris, were arrested by the police of Madrid, Spain, last week. They had been in Madrid since May 9, having come direct di-rect from Paris. Mile. Eva Humber became hysterica!! hyster-ica!! and Madame Humbert clasped. Marie d'Aurignac and her daughter in left by Robert Henry Crawford, said to be an American millionaire. This The French public expects the trial of the famous swindlers to prove the biggest judicial proceedings since the Dreyfus trial and as equally far reaching reach-ing in scandals. . Borrowed Millions 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 suposed to contain $20,000,000 - sum was alleged, to be held in trust by Madame Therese Humbert, who under un-der Mr. Crawford s first will, was constituted con-stituted his sole legatee, and who, on the strength of her title to the fictitious ficti-tious estate, succeeded .In borrowing over $12,000,000 :fr'on. bankers, money lenders .attcl' : others'. In" France and Belgium. '." . ' ": Eventually an - Investigation was . started, ,the Humberts .md. others con-nected con-nected with them in the operation fled from Paris, and on May 9, when the Chief of the Detective Department of Paris, M. Cochefcrt, opened the safe it brought to light the greate. svnndle of . the country, for the safei was found to contain nothing but an 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 until un-til Madame d'Aurignac, Madame Humbert's Hum-bert's Biece, attained her majority, when all the heirs mentioned in the two wills were to come to an amicable agreement for an equitaole division of the property. tier arms, pleadms with the police not to separate her from her daughter. The police made an mventorv of the contents of the apartments and found a parcel of jewels valued at $2,000, two lottery tickets and about $115 in jcash. Seals were then attached to the '; house and the entire family taken to " jiail and placed at the disposition of i the French Ambassador. - j .Tn(L.9c!iG3.:its of the hpijje ; had : Boiigli to eseae Tiy the windows, but faileu. It is believed that they destroyed de-stroyed 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 gratulated him, saying: "I rejoice that our police have been able to render service tr France." " The prefect said he had known of the presence of the Humberts for a week, but delayed taking; action untrt he was assured that he had the entire jparty trapped. ; The Humberts maintain that they are innotent, declare that they themselves them-selves have been victimized, and express ex-press a desire to return to France and defend themselves against the jcharges. ' The presence of the Humbert family iin Madrid was first brought to light through an anonymous letter sent to the French Ambassador, Mr. Pateno-tre, Pateno-tre, who notified the Spanish police. |