New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1929, Page 17

ey aughtithe layti rince of he at urglars He “Pulled” 150 Clever Robberies in French Resort Hotels, but a Pretty i T Face and Too /| ' Much Daring Put Him In S AL //VMM//:;, %:’” b 7 - W2 2 / P s Dot 1 S KN kY i oy A I P I I IS ISR I I 10 T Z IO AN 372795077, s The Cu Burglar Costume as Worn at the Old County Ball in London During the Tine of the British Cat re. French Poli 1 This Pho Was Widely Dic Gave Jean Ebner Idea of Ap < 1 > 8 5 8 ML | ) ; : " b 4 ! «dame pro- ; el tested that i AN she had no gems, but the N \\\\\ cat barglar eut her short & with a curt word. Then he sat down nonchalant \ i Iy on the foot of the bed S0 dean . e A i ! % while he forced the te fied beauty to give | ber jewels herself.” I, e s, I I I NI, ractical joking an % R be sentenced in a tiny | cial town, ourt convened 1 town « 3 o detective % hands w etator. On 4 3 S ok g L pia = dmirie S L AT part of the ¥ 4 look supplant the one of in- MU A nt col b slar’s had been worn 3 wlar Diam, s < & 5 era scare } N N \ N N N \ N N N N N N N N N N N N \ N N T e \ N N \ N \ N { N 3 rivgs brace them triump art, from the houses of Ca and Boucheron. And there was not a synthetic stone in the collection, for the prising burglar t he can detect a sy ight, and disda handsome intruder staved & : ; ; : until a sudden voice in an Y > : : hi 3 ; S e BenntullErendh adjoin room de f“f?‘ At 1 Wiho Was the Ca e tw wary. | hen, iwWith ta GUICKepe gl g =l threat to the lady ag did not know tha an alarm, he kim and notific shed :r:mm:k {heA '»\‘.min\\: When Ebner learned So far, so good—for the ;10 5 prize for his cl But, as it de gionned out into the gz t gEoms, he prince of the “‘cat he was de " opctwhile owner an Austrian, with the appearance end G idedly attvacted by the pecklace had arrived manner of an aristocrat. It was his T : beauty he had robbed he found two detectiv very elegant demean that enabled ke thought of her he de hile two gendardmes him to mingle wicth the ! £ighe ? 5 5 3 c'ded he must see her . custody. Quickly the various watering places and reso f : - of success- through the ballroom Burope. Most of his 1 : ful porch: nbi i tume had been only too r crimes were “pulled” at Cannes, L | made him over-confi o think that the Touquet, Deauville, Dinard and ¢ ' i dent. mingled with some ¢ which was the sceéne of his nemc - So he kegan to fre- people in Europe at Incriminated with F r v £ : o quent restau‘ants men, an Italian named nilo and 3 ’ where b v of receiver named Mar: e proceeds pearls lunched of many of coups he lavished on % beautiful French girl namas Gabrielle Romey. She appear court wrapped in a magnificent mit coat—E 's last present In the ght, when the “cat” nned up the front of a hotel into the room of a victim, he alway evening clothe And caught by a gendarme 3 ing a hotel front, manag with the aid of his nt cloth to p de the policeman that he was just a trifle and was clin 1p to his room had spent weeks preparing for the e cpisodes coup. while his When Ebner scaled hotel front beamed proudly at in Vichy late at night and entered the room of his victim through the third floor window, he surprised very woman a e dressed in a thanous night robe of eighty-th arls her y vizitor in im valued at $100,000 e ev clothes drew a re stole her pearls she a volver and ordered her to produce her it was to see her aga‘n th necklace, My e knew her gems out Vichy, gulping down pints of the had tud the I the no waters and taking the “c¢ L S y had heard of Who is the woil ( s ies at other ended Jean's : s " v v everybody h ¢ wind sh —————————— A I I35 NI A A ‘, Tummmpmmmmmm s, I % e A7 AT %, o i R can Ebrier, the Handsome Young Aus- an Cat Burglar, Confessed to 159 beries and French Secret Service Found a Fortune in Jewels in His oms. This Photo Was Discoy { by the Police in the Possession of Gabrielle Romey. 7% . by at La quented supped. He would send hor notes and once, when she happencd to glance up and recogn , he vanished from the room just as he companion rose to give the alarm. Ebner also sent her flowers but when he decided to attend a dance He told the court how he could at wh he thought she would be' detect sparious gems. and re present, he handed himself the key to 2 & aled his secret of r‘»' mating ) % N e o) o the genuineness of pearls. “It b LN LB PRty dartshaiced Vichy turned out in really very simple.” he explained | ,“"“"““““ Kirotiphisan, the : ¢ Ll ) g tend @ costume ball at one in a condescen tene to the L D s S o . of its leadinz hotels. a month or so g0 Jutge. i . pezils, all These Four Amusing Cartoons Ap cluded in the jewel exhibit, as it hac A hob S L ““"X- smi Pri ¢ to be donated for the you have tc L0 a penkni peared in a London t been sold by the business-like burgls s tophat at @ rakish angle. but - most” hamorous and clever costumes, and scrape the pearl, IF artificial, the Weekly. They Sn A il S bur, & letermined glint in his eye tfirst And B must have felt certain of outer covering can seraved away, o Pt Gk e ey 2 1 Madame protested that she had no first pr T strolled in the b: but a genuine pearl v the knife.” AR R i fEIuES, al trial, “and 1 almost : but the cat burglar cut her short room dressed as a cat burglar. Ro Ebner’ \ ven a piquant —and How He 1 Ga About It hwving to rob her. But she had ith a curt word. Then he sat down of laughter greeted his appea turn when he exy to the o At the Time. the | h Metropolis necklace in V . ar 1 oot of the bed, while he forced the cat bu that he had once been a bootlegger in Was Talking of the Exploits of ({