GOAT SWALLOWS BANK-NOTE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8768, 21 March 1907, Page 1

GOAT SWALLOWS BANK-NOTE.

Mme. Poisson, a widow, was walk - ing down tho Rue de Taugirard, In Paris, tho other day, when she ' dropped a bank note, Discovering lier loss a few paces further on, she turned hastily baofc, and a man leading a goat was pointed out to her as [haying picked up the note and asked for the return of the note. “It is Quite'true that I up a 00-franr (54) note,” said the man, “but I had no sooner done so than my goat snatched it out of my hand and swallowed It. ’ ’ Hme. Poisson called the man a ■thief, and a policeman took the lady, the man, and the goat to a police station. There the man’s story was disbelieved, and he was ordered to give Up the money or go to prison. ■ In desperation ke told them to look inside the goat for tho remains of tho aote. Tho animal was killed, and the remains of the note were found . in its stomach. "“The owner immediately claimed for fthe loss of the, goat, but the I'widow refused to pay, and an action {for false arrest, slander, and damI ages for ’.the loss of tho goat is to I follow.