Show T 4 tit Y i J J y yf r- r f r Serge de Lenz the Gentleman Burglar of the Cafe Cafe- i Fanny carried Robert one night was Believed to Have Planned the her scantily clad z figure page relining silver plat one ing Theft of Madame de deter the thel l J JL JI L I r ter borne on r rt t i shoulders of four I slaves Jewels 4 5 t w wS S 3 Cj Sr I A a 1 P 1 j r r 1 W W x 4 I IL Pt b r n Y g 1 y f a y 1 tt Y i r I Ii PARIS PARtS ARTS RIS to ia I stilt still talk talking ng about the tho re- re re recent PARTS PARIS P craw cent nt b l Id robbery It-berl by which tho the cod iVd Ix-aA Ix ill Countess do de Tea lot t 1000 0 favor worth of and D od many are that the ensile we- we wea II a put part ot of f the th revenge Serge Serto de to Lent Lenz the tho gentleman D bur ar tale 13 to wreak Break on this fo former sweetheart rt of It la bas h for what c t-c f a 0 have nave hers l t a 1 her IfT t betrayal of nf lum I IDe P De Lens o l S saving fn ye- ye yes years s at ai hard hardI labor in U the th prison bar ba tha I might sot not have p p hil Ma gc Late mio n wt soma b mr mp of 01 bis Hi frien In the tho and ad planning the re- re rc I ble bl crime 1 which rma 0 tear car u costing the tho all aft the too zeo no-i no treasured of her ber dmm diamonds pearls petri and rubles rubies Some Sono of ot tb have hav t teen tx-en recovered recovered recovered I J ered c t d several of the thines Implicated U- U in the tho crime ante haws haw been bee arrested They have hav not yet yr confessed that Do DoLent DoLent Lent LcM had bal to do d with tb thin rob rob- robbery robbery bery but bat b eventually it la iv that this win will prove ve V to Ix be the 00 A truth trot of the mattes r The bill burglar is raid aId to have g me c-me ae to the bitterest t r hatred for or the woman who bo long loves hIm ro ce I devotedly and uni ani whom hI he hi toted lo lo untIl atilt MUe the tb fag stage beauty uty atole his hia heart away Had it lt not cot been PeD b cn tea for Mme De Do Tes an court h believes II bt he would world still be carry carry ine mg on his bit bold robberies and lugging away his loot in the thO th l luxurious Iu which the tho countess r Mad Hid with Jealousy when whee Me eke Kb saw MW s w MIle ML's taking taJi t her place pL c m In his heart b rr the s supplied the police palter lib Wit the tb cle clews s that led to De D Lewes arrest and conviction Then how Ocher better could cold ho hobe hobe hobe be revenged on her than by directing the theft of the jewels which are ars amo almost t as dear to her as l life le e itself t Some such explanation as s this would bear out very cry well will the theories the po t police lice lico have haTe already formed The ro robbery as one of the tho boldest boldest most m ingeniously inc planned Paris has teen seen In a long tm time It had to be for the countess Is a woman unusually wise in the worlds world's wicked wickedness ness and and to trick her out of Let er care care- ca carefully carefully rL fully guarded jewels was a task calling for the greatest It was as as lust Just each uch a crime as IU De D Lenz would have delighted to plan plan particularly when he knew that if it he would be richly revenged on the th for for- former for former mer flier sweetheart whom he ho thinks think responsible n- n sIble for sending him to prison A young man who had scraped an au aCT ac- acquaintance ac acquaintance with the countess on a cafe cao dance floor induced her to pay him hun francs franca for a bracelet easily y worth warb tyro or three e times that amount The Tho Th next a max man and WOman appeared at the countess countess's apartment nt and charge her with stolen the U bracelet from the womans woman's handbag is the Bou BoUl de For vano venous reasons the th count countess un s it b I bI not anxious to have bare bar her bet accusers accuser go to the tho police with them their charge and to ao 0 she ale hands bands the tho th bracelet over to them and also ablo given them franca to keep ke p tram them quiet The next day the tho th countess has more visitors This TIlts tune time it is s a party of men men who present the tb creden creden- credentials teals of high police officials With them they have haTe brought securely dy handcuffed the young man who wh sold her the th bracelet lct I i The Tho countess is In- In Int informed in informed t formed that the tho young man has confessed to having hang stolen the brace brace- bracelet bracelet let and gIven giTen it to her herShe She is us charged d With Ith being beins a receiver er of stolen property and is told that every lewd she possesses must mast be taken to po- po police po police lice h headquarters and held until she the can prove her lawful title to tI It it Wh While e the th countess weeps and wrings h T hands the men search the apartment and gather cather up every piece pICCO of jewelry it at contains at least leat lea t francs worth Off they go co WIth this fortune for for- for fortune tune tunc In l rings fines necklaces n pendants ts and brooches after Alter feat fint giving the tho tb dIstract distract- distracted cd ed woman what look looks like lik a perfectly good police pollee receipt for or the property But Bat the grief and rage rago which the countess felt as sho h saw w her jewels bem being carried away were as IU compared to what t she EIle ih T cd the tho following day when wh n abe th sh went to tn t the police pollee to see ee what wha could be b done dOD doa about regaining her property Sh Sho was waa told that they knew nothing about it that i that no 00 police officIals had bad VISited her apartment Then she learned lerned that the young man who vrho bad had told sold her tho th bracelet and the tho couple who had bad pretended to have hav lost It and the men who earned off her jewels were all nil member o of a bold hold and extra extraordinarily or dmar y d band of acting rot hers acting It is believed under th the direction du of Serge de dt tone in his liar off far prison on cell Everybody who is i fam familiar with Serge de It Is s 's pa ion for aal and In- In in crimes s and also hu hlA to th to be revenged on th the countess can n ima imagine nc how bow he ho must have havo chuckled at tho sue suc success cess eau of ot his hb plans p and the news of f the grIef and nod rage into iato which she Me sh was plunged d when the abc learned bow she Iud had been tricked ed But it lJay may yet yit be the turn to do some tome chuckling Part of the jewels ewels have been bern recovered reco and several of the tho thoth th thieves e ees es arrested ted If tb the countess is alive When the gentleman birlar finishes his lus prison term be he woul would i better watch hIs step a as you ion OU Americans say for fot Mme lime do de 11 so not coins going to be 1 pd d until she is revenged on him Fanny Robert is ts the real name of the notorious y who rails calls herself the Countess de T For more than fifty years he be has bas been a conspicuous figure in Ih liveliest circles eludes of ParIsIan WE life The ID French capital has had many sirens but l ly non none more moro irresistible irresistible ble blo or who has charmed a larger num num- number number ber her of rich and titled men than Mme de It Is I said aid that there is hardly a jewel in her cogee- cogee tion bon tion which does not recall the tha suicide or 01 rum or OF r abject slavery of some somo victim of her charms It was wak beck bad In the days day of the Second Empire that Fanny Robert first burst I upon on the tho gaze caze of Pans Parrs and begun Ix-cun to be beha ha hailed ed aj as one ono of the most entrancing beauties that ever brok broke broko a mans man's heart or r emptied his Ius pocketbook And very spectacular indeed l was wa tn th the 8 debut that l brought her hel from obscurity to fame Into a dinine room Toom of f the tho tb Caf An clais An-clais glass J the she was carried one night her scantily clad figure on a huge sliver sIlver platter borne born on the tb shoulders boulders of tour four EgyptIan slaves daves A spendthrift t Russian grand duke was kit his mends friends at a birthday dinner and this surprise entry of t tho the oem Dew beauty he be b had discovered was the crown r v s ti tir t ta a a r s j ar J S A Crt a t tru ru b Serge k a w y g gb iy de Lenz the war biro and gentleman a 4 o I t w o a a burglar 4 fug event he had bad pre pre- 6 1 yaw a t f Yz h x sef pared lared for the enter enter- se- se ot of hie guests s t As the doors swung k f fb rv pen open and the slates sla b w with Ith ith clankIng chains s sAs t ore ere the platter In st Ct ry x tho flushed wine men around the table sat y e r rr r for fot a minute dumfound at ate e r Nv sight of the frankly displayed girlish loveliness lo that smIled down at them Theo Then With one accord they sprang to a J JrR rR rRt t tR their feet and toasted br her in rare yr x o D o The flee rhe siren oven of sirens 1 I cried used one ono of who the guests And those words proved prophetic for this is exactly what canny ranny Robert quickly became and what bhe ahe remains even to this day It is doubtful if in all her long Ion and extraordinary love life le l e Mme Mine do d r ourt court Durt has Ius ever been more genuinely dc de de- de devoted voted to any man than she was vas to Serge Seredo do Lenz the tho gentleman burglar IIo Ho Totted her ber repeatedly but still rtin she forgave him and md continued to keep him cuddled in m the luxury which her shame shame- shameless shameless less heartbreaking had bad bought Only when w she lIbe saw him falling m in love lore WIth the tho younger and more allurIng Mlle Mile did she turn against a inot him bun and de- de de determine termine to make mate hun hum suffer for his base ingratitude and treachery Dc Do Lenz was a young man of good family who ho could find no hone honest way of getting the tho th money he needed to play along in the gay Ida lp l p of ParIs Pans So ho turned his natural aptitude for mechanics ics ica to picking the th locks of nf hotel safes bank vaults and jewel bo boxes es When the th war broke brok out ho h was be- be beginning beginning bc ginning his first prison sentence for tor glary burglary He H was released with other Mlle the French stage beauty who stole stoll Dc De L Lz's L z's heart away from the Countess de and gave cave h her hr r the excuse for betray betray- betraying betraying ing him to the police offenders Tender in order that he might enroll in the army Do Lenz became an aviator brought down fourteen German planes and was awarded the Croix de Guerre His reck reek reckless less daring might have won hun still stillmore stillmore more honors if he hl bad had been able to re- re re resist aut the tho th temptations of tho the underworld of f Montmartre He Ho deserted and returned to Paris Parle but was caught and sent back to the front AGID Agana h deserted and this time he man man- managed managed managed aged to the military police pollee It was then that he and Mme do court fell Cell in 10 love loic e Sho Sh bo took him bum to t lave Ive liv with her in a palatial hotel m in the Rue SaIgon Salt where abc was enjoying a fortune bequeathed her by a rich nth old lo lover a time they were ere supremely happy together But again agam g in Do D Lenss Lens's fondness for buying champagne suppers for the th beauties of off the chorus chores proved his bis undoing i- i When Us hIs elderly sweetheart refused to supply him n ith all aU the tho money he need need- needed needed ed cd he took tool to pawning some sonic of her jewels and furs Time and again agam she sh discovered discovered discovered ered his thefts but each time she for tor gave him hun when he promised that nothing of the th sort should ever happen happeD again At last 1st be he was as arrested wh while e pawn pawn- pawning pawn pawn-ine ing a pearl necklace Although the In- In Infatuated in infatuated countess refused to testify So a against hum him he was was sentenced to a five five- year five year term for desertion dc and burglary Good behavior and the th coming of tho armistice cut short his imprIsonment and again asam the forgiving countess took hIm back bark to her arms This time he did not rob her ber but used her ber limousine tn in inthe the daring bur burglaries lane through which bo be obtained the money for tor bis lus wild dISSipatIons dissipations dissipations His sentence to the tho long torso tenn he ia b Isnow now serving came soon oon after he fell In lovo with Mile Mlle and ho he h lays this the I t t 7 X f The Countess de I Ithe t the former fonner Fanny I Robert one of the most notorious and irresistible of r the Parisian sirens who break mens men's K hearts and empty their pocketbooks last downfall to the Count s de do courts court's courts court's jealousy of ol the younger woman which made her betray him to the police Serge Scree de Lens Lenz went to prIson but ho dId not forget what he believed was w the Countess de treachery to hIm In his cell he pondered long Ions and of getting even c cn WIth carefully a say ay her and the tho recent amazing amazine theft of her jewels is believed to have haTo been the result The Pans Parrs police breathed more easily canly than they had in III a long lone time when DeLenz De DeLenz finally behind the bars for a Lenz was as term of ten years During his last latt SIX months of liberty he had bad terrorized a arIch arich rich apartment house section of the city and had stolen valuables worth francs His Ills method was simple In the morn morn- morning ing when the servants were likely to be beut out ut attending to the marketing he be would r walk down the street and look 1001 for apart apart- apartments apartments ments where the blinds were drawn If some one ono answered his ring or knock atthe at atthe atthe the door of one ono of these apartments he be smIlingly said he h had bad made mad a 1 mistake and went on to another WE-I WE WJ- WJ 1 no an- an an answer sorer came he used one ono of his skeleton keys to open the tin door and qUIck quickly looted the place He lIe was finally caught when a II concierge found him lOIterIng in a hallwa hallway and be- be be became came me SUSpICIOUS Quickly the shrewd shred d gentleman burglar bent down as If jf to t arrange the crease in his trousers I am a mutilated war l veteran he said to the concierge and I JU lust t stepped inside hero bero her to adjust my artificial leg Ice Tf a concIerges concIerge's concierge suspicions were wera quieted quiet quiet- ed until he saw aw Dc De Lena Lenz leave th the build build- bu building building d ing mg and walk Balk LII down d w the thc street as If lf ho he had two perfectly good legs lees The were notified and caught the thief be- be before before be before fore lie tie had gone rone many blocks His pock pock- pockets pod ts ets they found filled failed with jewelry he had taken talen from an apartment only a few nunn min minutes utes sites before Wb While e he be was held tn in jail a II great gnat mass massof massof massof of evidence was accumulated connecting him with nth scores of other robberies What the tho police were most anxious to find out was how he be had disposed of hIs hi loot loot but for a long time tune Do Lenz steadfastly reo re- refused re refused fus fused to tell them anything At last he be became so hungry for an- an another an all another other sight of his beloved that bo be promised to make a clear breast of i everything ever if 1 the police would let him hir see sec her The bargain was made and a after r the police had satisfied themselves that Do De DoLenz Lenz had bad confessed the truth was brought to the gentleman burglars burglar's cell Through the bars he h pressed his lips bps against hers and a few days later wu was sentenced to ten y cars at hard labor l R |