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Show FAMILY OF SWINDLER ARRESTED N MADRID. Madame Humbert, her husband. Kva Humbert; M. and Madame d'Aurignae. the brother and sister In-law of Madame Mad-ame Humbert, and their three children. chil-dren. Itomaln. F.mllo and Marie, who perpetratec". the tafc frauds In Paris, wero arrp ted by tho police of Madrid, Spain. 1,st week. They had been in Madrid since May 9. having come direct di-rect from Paris. Mile. Kva Hnmbor became hysterical hyster-ical and Madame Hiimbe-t clasped f.iarle d'Aurignae and her daughter In Tho Furh pahiir ,.Mh-cIs tho trial of the futons swindlers to prove the biggest Jlrl proceedings slnro the Hreyfus ll, ,,! eituully fnr reaching reach-ing In ifiiiit. Borrow! Millions on Her Story. Tho lnb,t f an ,ar, on M,Y g last- was ntfrcd on an empty safo at No. $5 itpruie do la llrand Armeo. It was suer! t0 contain JJO.OOO.UOO sum was liote( t 0 hc, )n irnnX by MaiUnuTliorese Humbert, who un- t AUr -----fr'X horn her arms, pleading with the police not I to separate her from her daughter. The nollt o made an Inventory of tho contenta of the apartmentn and found a panel of Jewels valued at I'J.tiun. two lottery tickets and about flir, In cash. Seals wero then attached to the hoiiao and tho ontlro family taken to Jail and placed nt tho disposition of the French Ambaandor. Tho occupants of the house had fought to escape by the windows, but fulled. It Is believed that tttoy destroyed de-stroyed papers of ImiiurtMaco befure Die polir-o gained entrance. The Prefect of Police subsequently had an audience of King Alfonso, and reported the capturo. The king con. grntulated him, saying: "I rejoice that our poltro liavo been ablo to render servlco to Frnnco." Tho prefect anhl he had known of tho presence of tho Humberts for a week, but delayed taking action until ho was assured that ho had tho entire party trapped. The Humberts maintain Hint they aro Innocent, declnro Hint they themselves them-selves have boon victimized, and express ex-press a doRlre to return to Franco and defend themselves agnlust the charges. The presence of the Humbert family In Madrid was first brought to light through an anonymous letter sent to the French Ambassador, Mr. Pateuo-(tro. Pateuo-(tro. who notified the Spanish police, 'left by Hobort I'enry Crawford, anld to bo an American millionaire. This iter Mr. "rswltrd's first will, was constituted con-stituted his van legntee, nnd who, on ho strength K her title to the fictitious ficti-tious estate, n, cocded In borrowing over lls.tiiMi.iss from bankers, money lenders and Mhers In Franco and Belgium. eventually in Investigation was started, the llenherla and others connected con-nected with Item In the operBtlun ted from Paris, and on May 9, when the Chief of tl Detective Department of Pirls. Cm-hefort, opened the f Jt i or. ifrr tight tho greatest swtndli of J country, for the safe was found tl ontaln nothing but an old Jcse) hi some old vapors nnd tho ollitlal h a which had mvlo 'he swindle noii-l ". the fortune having, under the tit is of the second will, been repretf-ii' d as held In trust n-III n-III Mndiino il'i urlguac, Madamo 1 1 Hubert's Hu-bert's nltcj, attained l.er majority, when all Vi4 helm mentioned In the two wills vtv to iiime In an amicable agreement rj.r an criillaule division of the pi'ohj.v. |
