CHLOROFORM ROBBERY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14344, 24 October 1910, Page 7

CHLOROFORM ROBBERY.

This is the season when curious country cousins come to Paris and do Bved from Lillo seoms to be of a guileCbss nature (says a Paris oorrespondendent of September 1). Having to pay a Ml her® of £2OOO for agricultural maiebinery bought by him, he never thought of merely bringing his chequebook. but brought fifty 1000-frano banknotes in his pocketbook, and having reached Paris, went instantly to dine at Montmartre. It seems hardly wise to dine at Montmartre with £2OOO in one s pocket, but it was still less wise to ask iwo ladies who were sitting next to him and said they were dressmakers to dine {with him. The least wise thing of all f-was, having paid a largo bill and exfliibrted in th© process the roil of bankUotcs, to accept an invitation to tea With the ladies. They took him to what x>ne of them said was her flat, and tea <was made. The gentleman from Lille fold no sooner. sipped his cup when lie Sod asleep. He awoke late the next morning,' still daaed by the narcotic soured into his tea, and found himself ■atone, minus the ladies, and minus the 'pocketbook, in a furnished room in a E r 1 dng-bouso, for the rent of which a = was presented to him. But the sdoous gentleman was luckier than He'deserved. He told the police that (cne of the thieves wore a bangle with a Socky gold pig having two ruby eyes. A [detective that Very day traced the lady with the lucky pig, which proved unrlucky for her, and: met her and her (friend outside the Scarlet Windmill, , just as they were hailing a taxi-cab. )Be said, “Allow me to escort you, Jodies ” and when they had all three got in told the man to drive to the police Headquarters. The two ladies are now gs Saint Lazare gaol. On one of them os found tb© pocketbook, still contain_ig £I6OO. What she had done with the missing £4OO since the night before Kite refused to say.