A FRENCH "RAFFLES."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9101, 29 May 1908, Page 3

A FRENCH "RAFFLES."

A man named Emile Orietz, who is suspected of playing the part of a French "Raffles," eluded the police recently at Fontainebleau as he was on the point of being arrested. The suspect, accompanied by a young woman, arrived at Fontainebleau about three months ago, and rented a villa on the borders of the forest. The man spent money lavishly. At a fancy dress ball last week he treateJ all the guests to champagne, and for a drive of a few yards he paid the cabman 20f. Orietz wa3 in the habit o£ disappearing from his accustomed haunts periodically, and liis wild extravagance caused police attention to be directed to ium. The police made inquiries, and found that about five years ago Orietz was a workman wlio had nothing beyond what he earned. He is now believed to be implicated in a series of robberies which carried out in the neighborhood of Paris. Tha gendarmes entered by a front cbor recently, in search of Orietz, latter, who had seen them coming, made his escape by a winil >vv. He disappeared in thu direccion <ic me forest. The gendarmes folhiAred, but did not succeed in overtaking their man.