SENSATIONAL ROBBERY IN PARIS.

Evening Star, Issue 3845, 21 June 1875, Page 3

SENSATIONAL ROBBERY IN PARIS.

A few weeks eiuco a sensational robbery was committed of that bold but patient and thoughtful type which we are beginning to recognise as the American style. A. M. Delapierre, money-changer on the Boulevard de la Madeleine, joins to this business a trade in expensive nick-nacks. Nearly each day for the last six months an American has made small purchases in the shop. With the ease and volubility of his pleasant race, this gentleman had fallen into a habit of exchanging long gossips with M. elapierre, who looked on him as one of his beat customers The other morning the American arrived as usual with a friend. M, Del a pierre had just taken out a bag of money and valuables, which he placed in the window whilst talking. There is, of course, a money-changer’s grating between it and the shop. Presently entered a third person, who bought a silver teapot, which the assistant packed up and carried to Ihe address given. When he had gone the American produced a claw, such as glassglobes are set upon, and said carelessly to che money-changer, “ I wish you would see if you have a glass to fit this claw.” M. Delapierre went with him into the back shop and. sought a globe to match, leaving the friend alone. It appears that he immediately opened the grating, seized the little bag of valuables, and called out, “ Haven’t you found a glass yet?’ The American came back, chose some small articles to be sent home, and then went off quietly with bis companion Not for half an hour afterwards did M. Delapierre discover bis loss, which amounts to L 12.000, half of it in ban; notes and gold, the rest in cheques and negotiable paper. A theft so patiently concocted, so audaciously carried out, is worthy of notice. Like the London bank forgers, these men had plainly some capital besides shrewd brains and cool resolution. They could afford to wait six months, and to buy silver teapots and trifles of that sort.