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10 THE COURIER Mme, Humbert's right to open the ife and take possession of its contents. The greatest lawyers of France were engaged, the counsel including Wal-deck-Rosseau, the French prime min ister, who appeared for the creditor of the Humberts, and Dn Bult, a dis tinguished leader of the French bar, for a generation, who appeared for the Humberts and was their devoted champion. The Humberts all those years seemed to have no end of "powerful friends who believed their story implicitly. Owing to the high legal position of the father of Therese's husband, eminent lawyers and Judges were for years the delight ed guests of the couple at social func tions. It was Waldeck-Kosseau, how ever, acting in the interest of a cred itor of the couple, who finally forced a settlement of the case and secured a peremptory order from the courts to have the safe deposit box finally opened so that Its contents might be examined. Mr. Du Buit, coun sel for the Humberts, and concededly an honest man, welcomed this act as an opportunity for a glorious vindi cation of his clients, whose honor had begun to be suspected after their twen ty years' contest with the two Craw fords. But Waldeck-Rosseau had dis covered that no one except Mine. Hum bert had ever seen the nephews, and that no trace of their existence could be found in America. It was time something was done, for many ruined creditors had committed suicide. On the Wednesday of this month before the safe was opened, Mme. Humbert appeared, in the full blaze of her dia monds, at the opera, in the box which cost her $6,000 a year. On Friday, the 9th the safe was opened. A descrip tion of the scene that followed shows how dramatic it was. The witnesses pressed forward. The box contained a few bonds worth $1,000, a copper coin, an empty jewel case and a brass but ton. "I am a ruined mnn," cried out a creditor. A deadly pallor swept over the face, .of M. Du Buit, the distin guished counsel for the Humberts, and he sank into a chair. "Within an hour it was known that the Humberts had fled from the country. The whole Crawford story -was a fic tion. There had been no American millionaire traveling In southern France, and no money had ever been left to Therese Daurignac. She invent ed the lie and probably won her hus- THE CRISIS James K. Hackett will open at Wallack's theatre. New York, early In the fall in Uk dramatization of Winston Churchill's great popular historical novet "The Crisis." The play has already proved -a phenom enal success oil the r47 It is the first civil war ptarajMhieve pop ularity In the tk-Zj:) RECIPROCITY FIGHT NOW ON IN THE U. S. SENATE m jwFS -!'A"' 'iB .X7 rr. wv- Hv ,i I m ";' t Mm ' ,'&; i t3s&& 'AT .'. h -" V vlv. " A .vv rxWAKA'MSVA-'llWWtt Senator jJW&ij'n&torz I l-Bsv T'B,I K ''BbpP 9 SENATOR J(5NES. SENATOR ALDRICH. SENATOR HANNA. ' I The settlement of the question of Cuban reciprocity by the United States senate is awaited with great in terest by the whole country. Senator Stephen B. Elkins. of West Virginia, is the leader of a formidable band of senators who are determined to check the eiTorts of the administration senators to carry out President Roosevelt's cherished scheme regarding our tariff relations with the new republic. Among his powerful allies are Senators Wel lington and Jones. Senator Aldrlch is the president's mouthpiece on the reciprocity question in the senate, and is l prepared to make a hard fight to push through the bill which President Roosevelt and himself have so much at heart. His efforts will be warmly seconded by Senator Hanna. band, the son of the minister of justice, on the strength of It. How far he was deceived in the preceding years does not appear. But Therese from the be ginning to the end was the brains of what Waldeck-Rosseau had called "the greatest swindle of the century." She invented the Crawford nephews, and by clever forgeries and conspiracies with a few scoundrelly accomplices, kept agoing for twenty years In the French courts a law suit over a for tune that never existed. M. Du Bult, who occupied the highest place at the French bar, has ruined his career from having been her dupe. Ten creditois of the woman have committed suicide, and $10,000,000 has been the extent of her actual plundering from the Freneh bankers and business men. & & One morning a loyal Irishman was at work near the top of a telephone pole, painting it a bright green, when the pot of paint slipped and splashel on the sidewalk. A few minutes later an other Irishman came along. He looked at the paint, then at his countrymen, and inquired with anxiety in his tunc. "Doherty.. IJolu.il;.-, hov ye had a hlTi-orrhage?" Little Pitman (at the pantomime) Aa's come all the way frae Dor'm, and cannot se a happorth o' the stage. Big Woman Hoots! Ye little foaks is aalis growlin'. 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