Tu the last five numbers of M.A.P. Mr. T. Pr O'Connor has given a very full account of what he terms the most extra-
as detailed by him Madame Humbert's inordinary cage of the century, and truly gemuity in the art of lying ind blue is the most wonderful thing I have ever read of. For twenty-five years she has managed to hoodwink men who considered themselves among the cleverest and smartest. financiers in France, but what appears to be the most ingenious' part of the case is that she brought an action against two brothers named Crawford, who did not exist, and carried it on for years, herself instructing counsel on each side and employing both sets of solicitors, When she won a verdict for herself she appealed against it for Crawford, all to gain time so as not to open a safe which was supposed to contain valuable securities upon which she borrowed millions of pounds. When the denouement came and the safe was forced it was naturally empty and the bird had flown, She and her husband and sister" are still, hiding, though at present no one knows whether England or America or Australia is their happy hunting ground. The saddest element of the case is that among those men who have trusted her, many have been so utterly ruined that they have chosen to end their lives rather than live on in erty. Up to the present time ten have ied in thie way. I wonder if the woman ever faces this fact? If so her feelings must be unenviable, but I suppose when one has lied and cheated and defrauded folks for a quarter of a century one's feelings have practically ceased to exist; still to the ordinary woman life would be one long agony, and one rejoices that this is so.
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