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Show PAY JEWELER HIS OWN MONEY M Parlilan Swindlers Inveigle Merchant jf Into Slgnlna Name to Order for IB Threo Hundred Pounds. . H A very clever swlndlo wns success- . B fully carried out in tlio Rue do In Pair, B Paris. A cnrrlngo drove up to a largo B Jeweler's shop, and an elderly man, B with his arm in u sling, accompanied B by A footman, who cnrrlcd a rug, en- tcrcd tho shop. fl Tho gentleman selected nnd bought B somo thrco hundred pounds' worth of ' B Jewelry, and then said, "If you do not fl mind, I will send my man homo for, fl tho money," Tho Jowelcr bowed, nnd H tho gentleman contlnuod: "I should bo pleased If you would wrlto for mo. H I have hurt my arm. Just write,' Tlcnso glvo Robert thrco hundred pounds,' and nlgn It 'Henri.' " Tho Jeweler wroto ns ho was direct- I cd, nnd In u quarter of an hour tho I footman came back with tho money, I and then he, with his master, left with I tho Jewelry. , . I When tho Jeweler went homo to I dinner Ids wlfo naked him tho renson H he had sent for threo hundred pounds. I Then the swlndlo was discovered. Tho I rogues know that tho Jeweler's namo I was Henri, nnd they bad got him to I wrlto the note for tho money, which I was taken to his wife, nnd then they I paid him for tho Jewels with his own I money. I |