A PAIR OF SCOUNDRELS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1948, 3 December 1906, Page 2

A PAIR OF SCOUNDRELS.

A MERCHANT’S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 5.6 p.m-, Dso. 2,

Pariß, Dec. 1.

The relatives of a meronaot named Jefqairies have informed the police that ne mysteriously disappeared in 1903, alter advanoiog 3800 to Oesbron and Marie Pesnel, who is alleged to have been Oasbron’s associate in extensive swindles in connection with a matrimonial agency, and money advanoed in connected with Pesnel's sterilised milk scheme, which preceded the matrimonial agency, It appears that Dr. Herbert likewise advanced money in connection with the milk soheme.

Dr. Herbert, who is now convalescent, declares that Marie Pesnel once asked him to write a cheque, remarking that she wished to learn how to draw a cheque. He is now convinced that Oesbron and Pesnel intended to murder him, and then forge his name, with the view of withdrawing two thousand pounds sterling in his bank* ng aeoount,

A cablegram on November 25th stated:—Dr. Herbert deposed in the Police Court that Ousbron invited him to his villa to receive money ha had lent him. A large empty box was found in the room adjoining the giace where Oesbrcn shot at tho doctor.

A Paris cable message, published previously, was to tho effect that Dr. Herbert an English medical man, lent M. Gobron, a French friend £SOO- While visiting M. Cebron at Bois-le-Eoy, near Fontiainebleau, Cebron crept behind and shot Dr, Herbert in tho head, again wounding him as his intended victim escaped in the darkness. The assailant fled. Cebron ran a matrimonial agency in London. A collection of weapons, spades and axes was found in Cebron’s other isolated villa on the outskirts of Versailles. The floor of the cellar looked as if it had been recently disturbed.