MASQUERADING AS A BISHOP
BANK DmECTORS’ ETJSE. (Sydney "Sun” Cable.) LONDON, February 15. The directors of a private bank in Paris, in order to impress the shareaolders, dressed a butler in bishop’s robes and seated him amongst the com* >any* During the meeting ’’the bishop’s” episcopal staff was left in a vrominont place in the cloak-room. Durng the proceedings “the bishop” em* doyed the time reading. An inquisitive shareholder, peeping ivor “his lordship’s” shoulder to see what was being read, was electrified to Jweaver that the bishop was enjoying '.he columns of a highly spicy comic journal. The fraud was at once discovered. The principals of the bonk fled, taking with them the treasury.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8363, 25 February 1913, Page 11
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