A STRANGE STORY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3279, 26 July 1911, Page 3

A STRANGE STORY.

MURDERER AS GUIDE

A strange story has just come to light (says a Paris correspondent)' of a detective wiio was guided' about in a foreign country by an alleged murderer whom he was sent to arrest. A man named Valesi was accused of -.having shot the director of an asylum at Aix. in Provence, last (September. He fled to Buenos Ayres, and the police, having traced him, sent a detective to secure his arrest. As the fugitive was a Corsican, the detective at- once sought out some Corsicans on his arrival in Buenos Ayres to help in bis search. He found one man who was exceedingly complacent, .and who for days piloted him about the city in quest of the alleged malefactor. Suddenly this amiable guide disappeai-ed, and the detective greatly regretted his loss. He- will probably regret it more now, when he learns that liis guide was the very man that lie wanted. In a letter written by Valesi from Buenos Ayres to someone m Prance, and intercepted by the police, he relates with great delight how he led the detective about in search of himself. But, fearing that sooner or later he might be detected, he thought it safer to vanish.