Show A convict in an prison who kept HI faithfully A firm of bankers in london have made a profitable investment some little time ao a man who had de-frauded them of a considerable sum of money was taken into custody con-victed and sentenced to a iong term of servitude the change affected him in many ways says tho newcastle chron-icle but he complained more particu-larly of the effect the food had upon his teeth they were neither numer-ous nor in good condition when he was sentenced and as they rapidly grew worse he applied to the authorities for a new sri t he was told that the rov did not supply convicts with artificial teeth and at the first oppor-tunity hd wrote to the banking firm in question offering if they would send him a new set to give them some val-uable information thereupon the bankers thinking tho offer might be a genuine one sent the cgoovveerrnnoorr of the prison a check for five pounds and asked him to supply the convict with a set of artificial teeth in due course the convict kept his promise and sent the bankers cer-tain information by means of which they were enabled to recover no less than fifteen hundred pounds of which jthhcc had been defrauded |