A MYSTERY CLEARED UP.
A great mystery of the Humbert case has beon cleared up. Ever since the opening of the safe members of the legal profession have been wondering who could have possibly coached Madamo Humbert flince the retirement of her father-in-law from the Court of Audits. Ho left office disubled from hemiplegia, aud with a shattered mind. She evidently must have been directed by a near relative, on whose secrecy she could implicitly roly, and who had a thorough knowledge of legal procedure. This unknown prompter retarded her litigation as a ftkillod chess-player might a series of games at a cnosn tournament. He saw far and wide, and had a remarkably long head. The secret prompter turns out to have been Frederick Humbert, ,the husIwnd of tho queen of swindlers. He studied law under his father, under Professors Valette and Conatans (now Ambassador of France at Constantinople), had the degree of Licentiate of Law, was called to the bar at Toulouse and Paris, but dissimulated his kyal acquirements so well that nobody thought of him as his wife's prompter until the ovidence collected by tfhe Jud^e d'lnstmction Leydet had forced home the conviction that he (Frederick Humbert) was the person. — Daily News.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue LXIV, 13 September 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)
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204A MYSTERY CLEARED UP. Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue LXIV, 13 September 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)
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