The Humbert Swindles.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12280, 12 June 1903, Page 7

The Humbert Swindles.

COMiMITTED FOR TRIAL. United Press Association —By Elec« trie Telegr^pn.— Copyright. Paiis. /Jiune 11. The Hhimberts' Itave been bo«i,imti;«\ for trial. The latest oomjifntation of Madame Humbert's debta w J as made the other clay. It amounts* "to the granid'-total-of" 115,000.000 francs, or . £4,f>00 ? 000: This vast sum represents"" the money raised by 51iaclame Hum-bert on tho phantom inheritance ticket. She and t lier husJjand have tried to tone <lo\vn their liabilities, to 7^.000.000 francs* or £3,120;000. 'For the new lists of debts- of the Humberts* M. SfotntKCm. a representa-. txve of the. "Matin," who was- among the^ earliest, prickers of the .Ci'awfora butbble, is .responsible. Hte has <>b--tainecl his infoiniation ,from two docimientary sonrces> namely, the Boojks seized at the house in the Avenue .cle la 'Grande Arm.cc, and .the statements of claims brought forward by the creUitiors cm. -the -winding *up of . the 'Hjumberts' f baariswiptcy. Jtf. Montibbn; notes that his fig(ul"e& are injdetoenUent of the .lapsed or written ojff debts^ •uch as those of ihe Bank of France and the Bawqjue' Gira«i. v > _ The figures a*er-iils«J -eonipiled indepenjclently of th& liabilities 'cohered, by* mortgaged . on prolperiy owned by the' , Rpiriperts and no,w held by ihe Gredit Foncier, the 'Societ«. Generale, and. some others. These lattar, it 1 is stated, Will lose hardly ai>y thing, but the other lenders are. in . a different ix>sition. They, according to M. Mon-- j them, will lose nearly all. and among; them there are" some who handed, over their fortMtoearto Madame Hum— 'bert. thus enabling her to float her factitious heritage and to pco'pagate. her myijis and , legfencls albyjut ihs, American uncle amd his- ne^iiews, theCrawfordsc witli their ccrfiorts of lawyers, secretaries, ..arkr factotHms. their 'exigencies, their fails, and their fondness for all sorts of complicated law, proceedings. **one tomdre'd and fifteen. million fraa^cs,*' writes. M./Monthon, * adding, "that was ; 13ie r ap^proximate figure of the iamojis inheritance, bpt Terese did not Jell us, beforehand that she was the heiress of her creditors', and, the name- o£- Crawforil was- to her only the pataroujTmic term of h*aman folly." - *_ ■ - In' M. 386onthSrtn*s Kst , it is to be rioted tfeat a firrnf of London, solici--tors is down amttng the creditora as having advanced 3,d00 e ooof, or £120, 000. Opposite the name of another, London firm is the total £40;000, or 1.000,000f. The mjost important- creditors are the Iffawjhands,. of Dunjkirjk:, wlio are down for 2^,088,5421. A firm of Bojulogne-sur-Mer lent over. £240,; 000. and a doctor at Nangis. adVanced over £100,000. Nes& follow, Jn^ the order of their' importanfee" as .regards' amonnts, Welfling (place .unmention— cdi) £175,320; .Rouiiva; Rue rLafayfette, Paris, o,vef £120,000 ; Cheneviere and Company^ of "OJ^neVa.; Xefesrre, ex-. ■ notary, of Valenciennes J S.chbtsm'&ns. of Lille ; 'and iwany mpre. The total nvamber of important creditiors is given as' llß. To these have to be added sioihe thirty -six person^ of Rouen an'dthe surroUridingr district who, we are told, advanced "10,000f to 50,000f ,• the money being paid to one of'Miadame H^ombert's agents in Normandy.