A Russian Consul's Revenge on a Thief.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 179, 20 November 1886, Page 6

A Russian Consul's Revenge on a Thief.

A Paris correspondent says— A Russian consul, Count Dimitri de Nordoff, who often stops at Paris, has good reason to thank his stars for a singular piece of luck. Two months ago he met in a cafo" two irontlemen, faultlessly got up," with whom he entered into conversation. During a stroll on the Boulevard, which they afterwards took together, tho two friends knocked him down without warning, and ran away with 4,000 rouble*, or £4SO, which they found in his pocket-book. Last week, after a stay in Moscow, which had almost effaced the incident from Mb recollection, M. do Noroff was walking in the evening down the Champs Elyseeß, when he saw one of his assailants taking the air in front of a cafe chantant. He inßtantly grippod him by the throat, but not tightly enough to prevent bi« escape, and an exciting chase ensued across thebonchesofthecafuwhoseoccupants expressed some astonishment at t.he precipitate movements of the stylish gentleman and his partner. M. de Noreff, however, was not to be foiled, and effected a clever capture. Tho man, after some denial, before the commissary, was proved to be tho thief, and disgorged tho entire sum of money, which he had considerately preserved intacb during M. do Noroffe absence in Russia. But the story does not end here. Only yeetorday, na he was posting a letter, whom should M. de Noreff see but the second thief, waiting to put two large envelopes into the box. He also was secured with the- assistance of a telegraph clerk, and identified by an eleg&nt cameo ring on his forefinger. Moreover, the two envelopes were found to contain several bundles of forged bank notes, so that both thieves stand a good chance of a conviction. There is a dramatic completsneas in M. de Noroff s revenge.