A hotel rat at work, the Comtesse de Monteil

A hotel rat at work. The notorious hotel thief, calling herself the Comtesse de Monteil, who was arrested at Monte Carlo: her method of work. Arraying herself in a workmanlike short black dress, she quietly steals along the corridors and enters the room of her victim. She places a handkerchief soaked with chloroform over the victim's mouth until he is rendered insensible. After having rifled his bag of valuables, she steals quietly away, creeping close to the wall to avoid observation. The bottom left picture shows the rat's fate: she is suspected, followed and captured red-handed

Burglar Burglary Chloroform Comtesse Creeping May21 Monteil Stealing Suspicious Thieving

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