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Show PAY JEWELER HIS OWN MONEY Parisian Swindlers Inveigle Merchant Into Signing Name to Order for Three Hundred Pounds. A very clever swindle was successfully success-fully carried out In the Rue de la Palx, Paris. A carriage drove up to a large Jeweler's shop, and an elderly man, with his arm In a sling, accompanied by a footman, who carried a rug, en-' en-' tered the shop. The gentleman selected and bought some three hundred pounds' worth of Jewelry, and then said, "If you do not mind, I will send my man home for the money." The jeweler bowed, and -A the gentleman continued: "I should be pleased If you would write for me. I have hurt my arm. Just write, 'Please give Kobert three hundred pounds,' and sign it 'Henri.' " The jeweler wrote as he was directed, direct-ed, and In a quarter of an hour the footman came back with the money, and then he, with his master, left with the jewelry. When the jeweler went home to dinner his wife asked him the reason he had sent for three hundred pounds. Then the swindle was discovered. The rogues knew that the Jeweler's name was Henri, and they had got him to write the note for the money, . which was taken to his wife, and then they paid him for the Jewels with his own money. |