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Show Tried Trick Once Too Often. A man of seventy-five, who of recent re-cent years had extorted money from charitable persons, In Paris, by pretending pre-tending to commit eulcldo, has fallen a victim to his Ingenuity. He used to lasten o rope, attached to the celling, about his nock with an eaBy running noose. Then, having knocked ovor the furniture, ho would overturn tho ( ohalr on which he was standing and romain hanging by tho rope. Alarm- ' ed by the nolBe. the neighbors would ' rush In and cut him down After bt-ing bt-ing revived he would depict his stato of distress In ouch moving languago I that money would be forthcoming for I his relief. Later he would repeat the ! trick in another house, Invariably ' with success. But a few days ago, I when he was carrying out the trick, there wao a hitch. No one went to his help and he remained hanging, being eventually cut down dead. The morq a woman's photograph doesn't resemble her tho better she likes it. |