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Show BOTH WON AND LOST. Ruse of French Husband That Wat Effective, but Costly. Mme. Bouvct, tho wlfo ot a Paris bopkeepor, who recently left him, received tho following letter: "If you 'Will not como and seo me alive, you will, perhaps, como and see my corpse, for by tho time you recetvo this letter I shall have committed suicide." Sho hastened to her husband's house, and on brcnklng open the door saw a body till Bwlnglng to and fro. "Oh, my poor Edward!" sho sobbed. "I have killed him, and I am a wretched wretch-ed woman." At that moment her husband hus-band rushed out of the kitchen exclaiming, ex-claiming, "No, you have not killed me, but you will If you do not come back at onco." Tho body wns found to be a skillfully mado dummy, which had boen arranged by tho artful husband. He was, nevertheless, arrested on the charge ot hoaxing a public official, at Mme. Bouvet was accompanied by a police magistrate. |