A Detective's Club, Detectives obtain tbeir bints and clues from many sources, but it is not often that they receive them through the instrumentality of parrots. Yet this is just what has happened during the recent researches of M. Goron, the head of the Paris Criminal Department. This officer has been lately looking for the chief of the "Catusse Band," a fellow named Victor Chevalier, and going the other day into the rooms of a notorious receiver in stolen goods in Paris, he heard himself addressed in harsh tones as " Good old Victor, there you are." After a long and minute investigation of the premises, he found a letter from Victor to the receiver, in which epistle the robber announced that he was in Angers, under the name of Felix Crozer. M. Goron immediately set out for town, and arrested the owner ot the too volubl.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 8688, 11 January 1889, Page 5
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146Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 8688, 11 January 1889, Page 5
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