CURIOUS SCHOOLS.
Tv St. Petersburg there is an institution where young men training for service as police make a special study of the tools used by "professional thieves. There is a class devoted solely to the study of forgery, with particular reference to the falsifying of signatures on passports. At Monte Carlo a school for croupiers is conducted During the summer months aspirants for the office of croupier learn tile operations of the gaming-tables. Each pupil must, from time to time, while others are im personating players and making wagers, conduct the game and learn how instantly to pay out the winning stakes. Six months' tuition is generally necessary. In Brussels there is a school for the instruction of gravediggers. All candidates for appointment as sextons throughout Belgium must pass an examination at this school before they can obtain employment as eravediugers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15551, 7 March 1914, Page 5 (Supplement)
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142CURIOUS SCHOOLS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15551, 7 March 1914, Page 5 (Supplement)
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