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Show o DEVICE OF PARIS SHOPLIFTER. An apparently respectable matron, carrying an ostensible baby in long clothe was observed yesterday fumbling fum-bling at a stall in one of the big shops of the Rue de Rivoli, Paris. The observers ob-servers of her movements wore two detectives, who had followed her into the shop thinking that they had seen her before. The men were correct in their surmise, sur-mise, for the matronly person is a professional pro-fessional thief, with many previous convictions. She was seen lifting several sev-eral articles of cheap jewelry, and then walked to another stall, whence she abstracted some pieces of velvet and silk. As she was leaving the shop the woman was arrested. At the police station she protested that she was the wrong person and began to cry. The ostonsiblp baby also cried, and the police po-lice superintendent being evidently a father, lifted the veil of the infant's face and spoke soothing words to the child. Looking more closely at the baby the police ofliicial noticed that its eyes were quite dry and its face bereft of a trace of life. Tapping the infantile visage he found that it was made of cardboard. The bogus baby was a re- coptacle for stolen property. On its body was a contrivance Which; when pressed, made the dummy infant evolve cries. The receptacle bad. inside in-side it a stolen bracelet and the pieces of velvet and silk abstracted from the shop. London Telegraph. |