THIEF OF NOBLE LINEAGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 2

THIEF OF NOBLE LINEAGE

11 convictions PARIS, March 2. If there is anything in the belief chat a man is responsible to his ancestors for maintaining family honor, the bones ol the Chevalier Enguerrand de Maneny, who, over 600 years ago, was one of the most powerful lords in France, must have rattled in their tomb as a Park correctional court passed sentence of eight mouths’ imprisonment for theft upon his direct descendant, Jean Enguerrand do Marieny. This person has had almost as much to do with justice as his famous ancestor, but lie has invariably figured ns the prisoner, whereas his ancestor was a Supreme Judge, with arbitrary power of life and death. Jean Enguerrand de Marieny, who yesterday went to gaol for the eleventh time, is amongst other things a Bachelor of Philosophy, and in his youth was a man of wealth. But'as soon as he came of age he rapidly dis sipated his fortune of 3,GQO;OOOf, and has since lived by means which badly match so great a name. When serving a term of military training with a. colonial regiment he made ends meet bv tattooing his fellow-sol-diers; later he became ari operatic singer, and enjoyed a short-lived spell of glory. He subsequently earned n ■meagre living as a shoeblack cm the quays of Marseilles, hut again climbed the social scale a little, and became a chauffeur to a bourgeois family. But ■he ended by selling his employer’s motor car.