DINNER THIEVES' RUSE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13648, 13 February 1913, Page 2

DINNER THIEVES' RUSE.

How two men with no money but'a spurious £20 -banknote made ait .excellent dinner end swindled a restaurant keeper of £18 was rclr.ted to the Paris po-lico recently. When tho men had finished their meal one of them purposely collided with and iips:et the table, .< which was ladenod with costly glass." Tho proprietor claimed £2 for the, damage, but tho man protested that he :had no money. "Search him," advised his accomplice. TJie propi'iotor'did .so, and. in his purs©, ■found a b-vnkiiot-e for ;-£2O. Deducting thci amount of the damage, he "handed back the -change. It- was only after the men iuid disapp-ea.rod that it was discovered that the banknote 'was a clover imitation. .' " ' •_