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Show FAY 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 Pais, 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, entered en-tered the shop. ; The gentleman selected and bought some three hundred pounds' worth of , jewelry, and then said, "If you do not j mind, I will send my man home for j the money." The jeweler bowed, and the gentleman continued : "I should be pleased if you would write for me. j I have hurt my arm. Just write,' 'Please give Robert 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. |