NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1929, Page 8

NEWS BY MAIL.

JEWEL HAUL. DISPLAY “LIKE A SHOP. - ’ HIS '.ENGLISH VICTIM. PARIS, August 1. One of the offices in the Palais do Justice here resembled a! fashionable jeweller's shop yesterday when the Marquis de Janay, mile, Jane Mnrnac, the well known actress and wife of Major Keith ' Tre\ r or, and MM. Gandillot and Levy came to identify ■vha-t was left of, the valuable jewellery alleged to have been stolen from them by Charles Boiirbc, who had formerly served in each of their households as valet. Jane Maniac was informed that the police had traced a chinchilla stolen from her and hoped to recover it. Charles Bourbe, who has admitted his ,guilt, was a pearl among valets. He always had the very best of re•onunendations, and gave his employers the utmost satisfaction. It is .alleged that betyveen 1926 and 1928 he was responsible for thefts involving the loss of £40,000.

HOTEL DEAL. The police learned that in the intervals between his various thefts, Bourbe associated with a man named Penjean and had even gone into partnership with him for the purchase of an hotel not far from the Gare St. Lazare. Penjean, has noyv been arrested. Bourbe is alleged to have confessed to his robberies, but lie yy r as vei.v astonished at the fact that he had been tracked doyvn, as he thought that in each case he had completely concealed his identity. The receiver yvho bought, and disposed of most of the stolen jewolleiy has also been arrested.

LIQUOR LOOT. BOOTLEGGERS’ HAUL FROM t BOND. NEW YORK, August 1. A Chicago .bonded warehouse storing 10,000 barrels and 60,000 cases v f whisky for “medicinal use" only has ahvays stirred the imagination of hopeful drinkers in the Middle West. Alas, however, a Federal investigation of the contents of many of the barrels and. .teases reveals the presence of water- -and cheap grade alcohol- as a substitute for the original precious contents. Bootleggers, it is beflieved, have got ayvay yvitin whisky that should netthem, if served to Americans in a diluted form - ,!'a profit of £400,000. The irony, -hoyvever, does not end there. Whisky)'is only under Government protection, and the owners, in addition to their loss, against which . hey have no redress, will be assessed >n a tax of about 24s a gallon on the liquor they thought they had. Federal agents have traced the stolen liquor-'-outside the State to warehouses 'in- St. Louis,' Louisville, mid Pittsburgh. The Chicago warehouse contains whisky from 30 to 40 distilleries collected during *,hc past fiy'e years.

STORY OF RICH MAN’S VENGEANCE. MARSEILLES, August 1. A riot recalling the faction fights of mediaeval days took place yesterday outside the Art College of Aix-cn-Provence. Students of the college were returning from a concert when they were attacked by a gang of roughs from the .port of Marseilles, armed with stones, loaded sticks, and “knuckle-dusters.” Their victims, taken by surprise, beat a hasty retreat in the direction of the college, closely pursued by the roughs. The latter were on the point of taking the college gate-house by storm when the police arrived and drove them' off. Three of the students are in hospital, while 15 others have had to receive medical attention. It is stated here that the gang had been hired for the purpose of attacking the collegians by a wealthy Marseilles man who had quarrelled with one of them at a dance-hall. The men are alleged to have been paid £1 a head and provided with free refreshment while waiting to attack. The students! now threaten vengeance, and propose marching on the apache quarter of Marseilles u ith sticks and clubs.

For the time being, however, they have been confined to their rooms by the college director, and a sti eng force of gendarmerie is watching the premises. (