The Humbert case still fructifies. Within the last week two
of the country residences of Madame Humbert have been broken into by burglars, and in that at Melun several valuable pictures, including a Raphael valued at 28,000, cut from their frames. Not unnaturally the absconding culprits are suspected of complicity in the burglaries, which would only round off their series of frauds with an appro- priately sensational close. From instituting legal proceedings against yourself to " burgling " your own house the transition is easy enough. In the first instance the Humberts were supposed to have fled to Portugal, but subsequently traces of their presence are alleged to have been found in or near Liverpool. If this should prove to be the case, it is curious that they should have gravitated to the scene of the recent bank frauds and the hiding-place of Goudie.
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