The Bossier banner., 1892-02-18
Al SOMEONE'S ELSE EXPENSE.
The Many Who Manage to DO 1t and
How 1t Is Done.

The Many VINO Manage to DO 1t and
How 1t Is Done.
That numerous class of people who
contrive to live at the expense of others
frequently display in the pursuit of
| their vocation ingenuity worthy of a
| better cause. Nor do they fail to take
| the most extraordinary pains to secure
| the success of their nefarious UNDER
| takings. OF the various novel methods
employed by these individuals in OBJ
tanning funds the following are some
recent examples:
A sham count whose breast blazed
with number of dubious foreign dec
orations, has been condemned to five
years imprisonment for series of mis-
demeanors known as the apartment
trick" His modus operandi was the
simple one of hiring apartments, from
which he flched various ornaments
whenever he had the opportunity
His most daring exploit in this direc-
ton was achieved some months ago,
when he succeeded in ingratiating him
self into the confidence of q certain
baron, who had splendid apartments to
sub-let for 81, 010. Pretending to be
deeply interested in the workings of a
bathroom, he induced the baron to I'M
dress, enter the bath, and give practi-
cal illustration of its merits. While the
performance was going on, the count
made dash at the baron's coat, alb
stracted therefrom a purse containing
916, and quickly disappeared from the
scene
On another occasion this accomplished
rogue pretended to recognize royal
parsonage, whose hand he shook in the
presence of that magnate's doorkeeper,
and then borrowed a sovereign from
the latter on the strength of knowing
his master He also BAN boozled the
proprietor of an old curiosity-shop who
had a weakness for manufacturing G
verses, and from whom he managed to
obtain considerable sums of money for
stolen articles by representing himself
, to be brother bard of noble family in
, reduced circumstances. .
: With the object Of obtaining COM
+ mission from Paris wine merchant,
= an artful but exceedingly dishonest per
> son, falsely declared himself to be the
D nephew of NJ. Waddington, the French
\ ambassador in London. On the strength
of being what he stated he was invited
home to dinner by the wine merchant
but the willy tradesman before sup
plying the champagne, telegraphed tc
London and found that NJ. Waddingtor
had commissioned no one to order
o wine for him. A trap was then laid fo1
q the impostor, who, however succeeded
q in evading it, but he was afterware
:, captured in connection with fraud O.
q different character,
II Very amusing reading is the case o
the two Ere nchmen who appeared at ;
, linen factory at Jevolen in the Volg;
+ and told the manufacturer that the.
We're French government commits
sioners, with an order for cloth cas-
!. in which to wrap the Eiffel tower il
=. winter. The production of number O
!, sealed documents and letters with tn
:, signatures of celebrated Frenchmel
" proved convincing to the manufacturer
who agreed to take the large contract
The commissioners required elOJ as
~ guarantee of his intention to turn on
= the order and gave directions that h
~ !, should at once proceed to Paris to mea:
several assistants, he repaired to Paris
% thereby spending $50 more, only
~ learn that he had been swindled.
y v Some peculiar frauds on insuranc
= companies have been brought to ligl
n through the arrest of police agent IL
q. having attested accidents which ha
Il never happened. He confessed his gui
-. and gave information as to the existent
IN of an organized band of swindlers, WI
a had defrauded several insurance cor
~ panies by obtaining indemnities for pc
~ sons who had never been injured TT
no head of the gang was an inspector
"a assurances, and leagued with him we
70 cabmen, policemen and number of i
dividuals whose duties consisted
throwing themselves down careful
near a passing cab They were the
a picked up in an apparently faintir
sh condition, and removed to a neighbC
is ing wine tavern, while the policems
is near booked the accident and reports
at it.
y A young Englishwoman in Paris h
nd been practising the marriage trick
he from which, it appears, she made near
C. $500 year. Her method OF procedu
er was to advertise in the journals that
ry widow possessing a fortune of 950,0
'lt wished to marry a gentleman in go
ng circumstances, and so cleverly we
to things managed that she invariably ]
ais ceived rich presents from her suito
oe, Having got all the money her dupe p'
ho sessed she would then suddenly disa
De. pear. Her last exploit was with c.
II tain noble viscount, who made he1
nc number of presents, but whose s.
SIS picions eventually caused him to co
10 municate with the police, and the g
eo,, deceiver was promptly taken into C.
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