STUDENT BURGLARS.
■ FRENCH CRIMINAL'S SCHOOL, ' (by ca'blk-phess 'association—coptbight.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)* < ■ PARIS, July 3. '•"■; A-mfan- named Mousset, who a few ycmvs'ago'jVas.' regjirflecl.'as one of the cleverest burglars in Europe,' found, when ho was liberated after serving a lbng term *:of . imprisonment, that, he was too 1 old for the game, and established a, school for burglars, in .the Paris 'underworld. Parents willingly paid large fees to, have their children taught the tricks of the trade. Mous- ;; 6et. ittiparted a most systematic training, -. an,d his own home was burgled ofery week by pupils practising. The f police, suspecting • the i nature of . the school, burst jn, but found Mousset teaching a class tfith diagrams on a blackboard. Everything looked innocent, and the police were on the point of ' doparting when one of them removed the teacher's spectacles and recognised Mousset. The authorities ordered the school to be. closed.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18426, 6 July 1925, Page 11
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149STUDENT BURGLARS. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18426, 6 July 1925, Page 11
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