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Show choosing his time for operating so won that his identify remained a mystery. The polico were at length nppealed to, and in order to catch the rogue one or I two agents were, at the HUggestion of a member of the force, ordered to mibsti- Itnto themselves for the dummies or rather, to hide themselves inside their wirework frames. It was not long he-fore he-fore tho plan succeeded. A day or two since, just as a richly trimmed mantis was being cleverly removed from the shoulders of a dummy, the individual engaged in the act felt himself grasped tightly by a pair of strong arms, and held a prisoner. The shoplifter's fright at finding the dummy to bo, so to say, inhabited, was go grout that it deprived I him of speech and action, and he made no attempt to escape from the constable's grip or to explain away his conduct. , lie is now lodged in prison, and on any future thieving expedition of this kind he will probably be suspicious of dummies. dum-mies. London Standard. j Neatly l'aii!it. The device lately hit upon hy a tnoin-ht- of the P;:ria jiolire force forentehin a inief "a'at eei'tiutiiy tin insfenions one, liut now that the lij-ht tinkered tra-tBrnity tra-tBrnity know of the trap tli"y will prob-fildy prob-fildy lie ou tlioir nard in fulyre. At one tif tho I-'irjro dress warehr.-ises in the Fanlnmrg St. Oeruiain '.here had been, t it nppeurs, for Korentl v.-ei ks past a number of robberies coirnnitted, and thoni;h tho strictoht watch was kept by the invieet rs. it had been impossible to disi-ovtr the ihief. In the majority of tai-es the unknown tOiopHner took away With him elegiuit ami costly iiiiinllcs ex-puiied ex-puiied lor halo ou diiininies in the nbop, ....... |