THE THIEF’S MONKEY
A Paris paper announces the arrest of a shoplifter named Miguel Androvas, a native of Puebla (Mexico), forty-eigbt years of a<*e. Androvas had been under suspicion for some time past, and was watched by detectives While no was examining some art articles in the jewellery department of a shop, the police officer who cad followed him saw the head of a tiny monkey furtively emerge from his side pocket. The little animal deftly snatched up several rings with its paws, and disappeared again in the pocket. On this manoeuvre . being repeated at the lace counter, Androvas was arrested. The monkey, which struggled desperately, was sent to the Fourriere, a sort of home for animals found straying or seized for debts contracted by
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Evening Star, Issue 14036, 17 April 1909, Page 11
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125THE THIEF’S MONKEY Evening Star, Issue 14036, 17 April 1909, Page 11
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