DARING NEW YORK CRIME.

Shannon News, 16 November 1923, Page 4

DARING NEW YORK CRIME.

-Although over 70 years of age, Mr. Albert R. Shattuck has sailed for Paris in an effort to track his former butler, who robbed him in arrai* on his house in New York as strange as any in the records of crime. Mr. Shattuck, a retired bankt - and former secretary of the BrjLi.mii and American 'Mortgage Co., Ltd., is determined to catch his man if it takes the rest Of his life and his large.fortune to do it. \ He will get Henri Boilat,/he says, not for what the 1 bandit stole, but for what he made Mrs. Shattuck suffer. ■ '■■■>. ■ ■ ' On April 2, 1922, the New York find out that she forgot aIL about it before she got home. * Lillian Gish listens to you with an odd abashed self-depreciation; Then she does as she'thinks best about it. Which 1 usually isn't your way. Betty Compson ? always looks at you like a startled faun. Thanks you for your criticism in a shocked voice and avoids you the next time you meet.

Norma Talmadge is polite but "honattentive. *■/■/' Charles Cha(plUi looks around at the scenery with an air of saying, "Oh, well, I don't suppose he will be talking long—and anyhow, we all have our crosses to bear." ■ Barbara La Marr looks at you with an air of gentle forgiveness.

Dick Barthelmess is not resentful — but he is argumentative. Being a very'determined as well as clever young man, he promptly shows you that you mean exactly opposite from what you are trying to say.

There is one actor who looks at you'with gratitude; sees the point at once; adopts your suggestion with gratitude and goes forth to sin no more. I

Oh, there is, is there? Well, just try to find him and send me his name and address.

mansion of the Shattucks was raided by five robbers, the leader ot whom was Boilat. They concealed themselves until the five servants were at lunch, and Mr. and Mrs. Shattuck had adjourned to the library. Then with drawn revolvers they descended upon the Ihousehold.

Master, mistress, and servant \ were marched down into an airtight" wine-cellar, built / like a bank vault,' and having a combination lock. Here they were left to suffocate while the thieves robbed the house of £15,000 worth of jewellery and decamped. One of the men-servants happened to have a penknife in his pocket, and with this Mr. Shattuck was able to work the lock combination from the inside. The women had mean- . w'hile fainted, while the men were very exhausted when the door was opened. Two of the thieves —identified as Apaches from Parian— were captured '■ with part of the loot and sent to prison for life. Henri Boilat, whose real name isj said to be Gabriel Alphonse Mauray. and who was born in Paris 36 years ago, was Mr. Shattuck's butler in 1917, in which year he disappeared with £2500 worth of jewellery and a large sum of money. ' '• He was not seen again until he smilingly confronted Mr. and Mrs. Shattuck at the time of the second robbery, and tore the ear-rings from the ears of the terrified Mrs. Shattuck. ■ t Mr. Shattuck has offered a reward of £3OOO for Boilat's arrest.