Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — CROOK ENDS PRISON TERM [ARTICLE]

CROOK ENDS PRISON TERM

Jean Gallay, Whose Exploit In 1905 Interested All Countries, Is Bet Free in France. Paris. —The release from jail of Jean Gallay, the romkhtic swindler of the Comptolr d’Escompte, has reawakened Interest in what was at the time a world-wide sensation. Gallay’B flight on the yacht Catarina In 1905 with Mile. Merelll and the sum of $160,000 put the police of nany countries on the alert. Three weeks after they disappeared from France the two were arrested under the names of Baron and Baroness de Graval at Bahia, Brazil, money and> jewelry valued at $120,000 being recovered on board the yacht. When brought back to France Gallay was tried and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, part of which he spent in the galleys of French Guiana. The woman was acquitted.