LATEST IN FRENCH THIEVERY.

NZ Truth, Issue 68, 6 October 1906, Page 7

LATEST IN FRENCH THIEVERY.

A thief recently entered one of the fashionable 'rSady-inade *■ linen - '-'shops : -in' ! Paris, and asked to ' see : sundry 'articles for his wife, for- whom; v he said, he-— rail preparing a pleasant surprise. . *':• '.'But," said he -' to the ' attending c'fcamsei. "I wish to' be surg or a cbrrefct ifitf." My wife "is about" your height ; she !, jj_t__, like you, a fine figure; tfie "carriage" c 6 ;a* queen. Will' you 'be obliging,- since liny Wile has your size, or very near At, j- i6' try on this" cheriiise over your "dress f?/ 1 - v -" She complied, arid the : thief, -preteri Ifirig; to draw it" do wri,' ' attached 'it h_r m feiris of j£ large carpet pin, 'to &.11 .her'^clb^faiiSsii He -then < Ordered a dozen like 'it , at 'five' francs each.- ■■■-..' •'■'-. ■• , :';'■•:■ \ ■';.:;>' , The shop girl, well satisfied, attem bted to take, off the chemise!,- but nndirig't fiatiy j as she' raised it, -Tier 'clothes i 'ciSne Pjip with it, she ran into an- adjbinirig*fooiod; l when the thief ran off with all he cbujd lay his hands upon. ■- - ! ' ''; | O — o _ __: -^i— - '.