Show BOTH WON AND LOST ruse of french husband that was effective but costly mine bouvet the wife of a paris shopkeeper who recently left him received the following letter it you will not come and see me alive you will perhaps come and see my corpse for by the time you receive this letter I 1 shall have committed suicide she hastened to her husband a house and on breaking open the door saw a body still swinging to and fro oh poor edward she sobbed I 1 have dined him and I 1 am a wretch ed woman at that moment her hue band rushed out of the kitchen ex claiming no you have not killed me but you will if you do not come back at once the body was found to be a skillfully made dummy which had been arranged by the artful husband he was nevertheless arrested on the charge of hoaxing a public official as bouvet was accompanied by a police magl |