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New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 902, 4 October 1866, Page 5

A New Dodge —A pair of swindlers played off in Paris the fallowing ingenious trick: —A. well-dressed man entered a tobacconist's shop on the Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, and after purchasing three cigarß gave a five-franc gold pieco in paymsnt j but after reoeiving his ohange he declared that it was a twontjfranc piece which ho had givon, and on the woman who had served him asserting the contrary, he added that it was a piece of the reign of Louis Phillippe, bearing the date of 1816 ; the shopkeeper then looked among the gold in her till, and finding a gold coin such as was described, supposed she had been mistaken, and at orice gave him the difference. A police agent in plain clothes happened, however, to bo standing by, and having his suspicion excited, determined to follow the stranger. He presently saw the individual join another man in the street, and the two went together to the pl«ce de la Bourne, where they separated, and the second entered a tobacconist a and after making a small purchase gave in payment the identical twenty-franc \ i° ce received at the other shop. The confederate shortly after went in, and "as repeating the same stratagem aa before, when tke police officer itepped forward and arreated him.