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BURGLAR IN EVENING DRESS. I It is nob often that one bears of burglars assum- > ing evening dress, either faulbless or otherwise, c, when they go out to carry on housebreaking j operations. There is a gentleman living tn Champs Eiyeees distriot, however (writes a Paris correspondent) whose prompt conduct led last night to the arrest of a burglar who was thus clad. The gentleman in question, in ascending to his own flat, noticed that the door ot a neighbour who is in the country was open, so he accordingly j entered the porch or ante-chamber of the place, and to his intense astonishment saw a man dressed in the 1 Most Careful Evening Attire, 9 and wearing a splendid floral sprig in a button* hole of his claw-hammer coat, pulling out the drawers in a bedroom and evidently looking fot J money or jewellery. The watcher hid for a few momenta in order to take in the scene more thoroughly, and he said that the gentleman burglar was rapidly filling his pockets with small objects of value and also with jewels. Having completely satisfied himself the gentleman cautiously left his hiding-place, went downstairs, informed the concierge of what was happening, and the police were soon sent for and appeared. The men of the law waited for a few moments at the bottom of the stairs, and were rewarded by seeing the fashionable burglar come unconcernedly towards them, humming an air from an opera, • and regarding his floral decoration with a satisfied air. Before he reached the street door, however, the housebreaker in evening dress was arrested. It was I In Vain that He Stormed, t swore, and protested that he was a gentleman, The policemen smiled and ran the rule over his j pockets. Then they took him away to the station, where he gave an unpronounceable Solavonic name and his address, which was ■ actually in the fashionable Avenue des Champs Elys^es. Thither went some of his captors-and found that he lived in an expensive bacb6 flat, or celibate's snuggery, beautifully furnished. A search was made there, and brought to light a remarkable assortment of burglar's tools, ae well as a list of parsons whose apartments could easily bo entered and plundered. It has been asoer* tainod, in fact, that the man is a practised burglar, and that he adoptecLfashionable attire in order to defy suspioion. General housebreaking operations lately effected in the Champs Eiygeai and similar districts are now put down to bis credit, and it is probable that his trial will • I Lead to Some Curious Discoveries. t There have been fashionably-dressed burglars before, but they never bad addresses in the Avenuo des Champs Etyseea. Here, however, is a man who not only went out tubbing in full evening garb, but actually lived in a thoroughfare and in a house full of wealthy and aristocratic residents. He was even the next door neighbour < of dukes and duchesses, of prominent politicians, and of distinguished foreigners, There is no exaggeration in this, for the police have given the number of the house wherei n the burglar had his elegant and comfortable rooms, whence he periodically issued forth in order to carry on the nefarious operations cf a !Ðill Sikee, or rather of a Charles Peace.