EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES BY A GOVERNESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6817, 22 September 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES BY A GOVERNESS.

A Certain Parisian Marquise, well-known both for her beauty and her good oatpre, recently communicated with Mi Tomasi, the Commissary of Police, and informed him that Borne valuable jewellery had l;eeu stolen from her hotel in the Rue de Crenelle-Saint Gerftiain. Hβ-examined the servants without obtaining any clue, and then inquiring of the fair applicant whether any member of her household had escaped her scrutiny. "Nobody," she replied, Vexoept my governes.- , ," "I tbipk had better see her, too," said M. Totnasi; but the Marquise protested that this was qjiita unnecessary, a3 she trusted her implicitly ; that she was a most exemplary girl in every way; that she supported an aged mother out O: her saving?, &c. The polite Commissary bowed with the air if a man who is but half convinced, but sa T d nothing further on the subject. Somu time afterwards, the Marquise went dowa to her chateau in the department of Nievre, aud only a few days after her arrival there, notes to the value of 20.000 L were abstracted from her bureau. TheastutoTomasiwas again oommiipicated with. " This time, Madame," iie said, "you must really allow mo to examine your governess." "But think of the cruelty of suspecting a poor innocent girl," "If you will truit me," replied the Commissary, "I will undertake that; if innocent, she shall nover know of my suspicions." ; The yoverness Was accordingly, sent by her mistrqss a few days atterwarda on a mission to lite hotel iu Paris. ~ On her arriving there M. T>. (nasi , mot her and inquired whether anyth; .Jg fresh had transpired concerning the robbery. ''Nothing," said the girl. "Cm you assist .me in any,; way, to. find the calprjt?" he inquired. "I kabsv iiQ.tlun<r," wa? the answerj " beyond that ■ the whole ailair is shrouded in mystery.",." Mine. In Marquise has told me," lie "■ w';ar ; . a dutiful daughter youare."- "I merely do my duty," replied the girl, "and seud some of iiiy poor s-aviugs,. occasionally to J.iiiy mother." "'luJeed.," said he, ;*' but"suhdy Madame must pay you a'very , higli'saliry. Three thousand four hundred francs,'which' I learn you sent your mother.a few days «g \ is rather a largn sura.'" '•'! he' girl turned very white, and. wiie beginning souie'iotriantie story about an admirer, who had .given,, her the money, when M. had been watching her dross attentively, laid his iand in a pnroiital way onV.uerVarm-i'saying a-; hu' did so, '';I take grnaf iutereVtiti'yoijr.B';pry," madamoiselle." He ' hid "that? the, sleeves of her dress had appearance, and as hia rnigf-rs.' closed" on . het.j'arm there was a sound as thoug'i paper were beiiig crushed. The governess taw".thai; the gumo was up, and did tlm besiV.thtngVshe. could under the The Commissary then : opened ;'tlio^dresss(yith''';a , pair of scissors, and discovered'a*, large'proportion of the missing iiotos neatly /sewn to the liuing. The;.girj/theiijo!eohfcsßedl;the whole of her 'guilt,'■ and .'not'only .ithejnotcs' but most of the missin.gTtriui(etsV^yere ; : ! j i rei* tored to the too confiding' Marquise?/i: : '-J' :, .-j§'i