FAIR LADY AS DUPE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14658, 27 January 1912, Page 3

FAIR LADY AS DUPE.

POLICE AND SWINDLEBS. • WEALTHY JIESGHANT ROBBED. i: :- |- 1 Tlie Paris police have come on tho ! track of :i. trio of card-sharpers, trick--1 sters, and swindlers such as is .-iot> often tlieir luck; hut aias! they liavo ecai)turcd only one' of the Unee" Ho 'lived at a fash : onah!e hotel in Paris, j and his adventures alone, without \counting thos-e of .thu other two. would jrpqiiire more describing tlian ihe ex- : plods of the "Trpis -ilousquciaircs." ; His pockets were stuffed with cheques | bearing the signatures cf Englishmen, ; probably his victims at the card-table. ;,Wc are told that ho was horn somei where in .England, that he had ! travelled about with a fair and haj wiichine: lady from across the seas, and : made a. scn-j.-ition in ihe hotels and at j tho casinos of the Tliviera, v.-hero his i'ai.- partner captured and subjugated I a chanir.acuc inapiatc, previously to j enthralling; a liirfi and misl'ty aristoicrat. followed bv an ahsurdiv sensaItional laasuit. j tl" r.e:;t met two birds of n feather, •,'.-7io had had equailv diversified car-trs. I (Ji:e js ailertd to 'have been : to lo years' haul labour thirty years i ago, winch only encouraged him to ! nia'te .-. iVcsl: stnrt in casisso swindling iin 1801. The other exercised the more. : commonplace profession of burglar. '; One day the. trio -were assembled in a ,st\!:sh (bit. and a wealthy merchant 1 from the North, .caught iif the meshes i oi the lair one from acro-s the seas. | v.tjs h:vnjdit to he sheared of his ■■up 'Wluous money at the card-table j specially prepared for him. He was ! already losing heavilv. and his cash was I dwindling away, when there was a i knock at. the dear. The police had I been watching, and an inspector and .his_aiioud.!ins asked to te allowed in. ! Ihe door v. a.s opened by the fair i laay. who wore a beautiful evening '-j r: s of grey ia:k, veith a diadem of : diamonds cf the- purest, water in her i hair. The flat had been hired by h. ■■- ' -;ch', and she y. as inistiv-s o: the'place. ; >iie «s iudi;:;na!it at tlie intrusion. wealthy maniiiaeture-.- had nor, lost already wa; comiscated v.ithout mercy by ihe r,<j'i-:e. who swept gold ccins and bsukaoKs oif The table. The s.usjactccl trio were expelled the country. nut tt was only then that tho police ha: nod that all three had an extraordaiarv number of charges against .'tl.eui—one )'.:• a robherv in It.ilv. ■ iano.h-r i-r a. theft in hwitzerlaud. . and th" third f.-r a sensni-ral swand'e in Pari,. Th.o rVio- alter this were : oil tjj" loeltout for xlic-in. Tliev wero i bound to come ba-1: to Fiance for tlie srascn. One of ih.,m at last iat ore .-.V' tbV ' t'ovrv 'i-,] ,'C Cha.meh : : lie had r.-.ov.ui enjt. Paris, and there j j w:.i,:;-: j:' 'u'y "their 'bauds' or/his two |