A CLEVER TRICK
A fashionable young lady, not long ago, drove up in «■ handsome private carriage to a veil-known lunatic asylum, situated a few miles from Paris, ami requested to see the proprietor. Her wish being acceded to, she informed the doctor that she desired to place her husband under his care, to see if a cruel mania, tu:der which ho labored—namelv, "that he had lost a largo quantity of jewels "—could not be removed. Alter soruo hesitation the doctor consented, and the lady drove away directly to a jewellers's in Paris, and selected jewels to the value of several hundrod pounds, and requested one of the shopmen to go with her in her carriage to procure the money for the goods she had taken. She drove with him to the asylum, and, arriving there, he was shown into a room. The'lady then sought th» doctor, told him of the arrival of her husband, and. {jetting into her carriage again, drove away with hot' booty. The rest may be imagine'd; but it may be added that the ladv was never heard of after.
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Evening Star, Issue 11675, 6 February 1902, Page 7
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183A CLEVER TRICK Evening Star, Issue 11675, 6 February 1902, Page 7
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