THE DOUBLE LIFE
FRENCHMAN’S ESCAPADES. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, June 2. Picard, cashier at an opera comiqne, was arrested on a. charge ol embezzling SCO,OOO francs. The evidence showed that though he was apparently a model husband for thirty years, and was sixty-three years of ago, lie led a double life. The police searched a room in a small hotel which Picard rented, and found a collection of smart suits, bouts, faultless ’linen, and wigs. Every day there went to the room an old man, and kft a gay, spruce youth who dined at the most expensive restaurants with young girls, and then returned to the hotel and went home elderly, bald, and bent.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ■
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Evening Star, Issue 18650, 3 June 1924, Page 4
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118THE DOUBLE LIFE Evening Star, Issue 18650, 3 June 1924, Page 4
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