While staying at a Biarritz hotel about two years" ago, Mr. Bache, 'a wealthy American, sent a trusted maidservant, Marthe -Thenant, to the hotel office for her hand-bag, containing £8,000 in notes and Jewellery valued at £24,000. Instead of taking the bag t the girl went awa; taxi-cab, The police failed to trace perty.
'A few days ago, while in Paris, she was attracted by the display in jeweller's window acd, looking i she saw a valuable diamond ving which she identified as one of the articles stolen from her. She went to the police, the jeweller supplied the name of the man from whom he bought the ring, and, pursuing their inquiries, the. detective discovered that Marthe Thenant was living in a flat in the Rue Desnouettes with her} mother and a man named Mazeron, and that all three had gone to Dieppe for a holiday. Taking them one of Mrs. Bache's servants to identify the culprit, the detective went to Dieppe where they found that their prey had left for the Treport.
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