Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-04-15

How They Ply Their Arts in
London end Paris.
extraordinary Robberles Executed ny
Daring Adventures of Both LOS
The Champion Hotel IhIel
OF the World.

OF the World.
liotel-keepers are peculiarly liable TO
&c swindled. So many people of all
;ortS are constantly coming and GO
Hg in the busy season that il is next to
impossible for the most careful man to
be sure beforehand that his guests are
all honest aud straightforward, and
will not be found to have skedaddled
when the time comes for the little bill
TO Ire collected, after they have fared
sumptuously for many days. The best
the sorely tried landlord can do is to
steer rs well as he may. Tire happy
middle course, without Offending the
solvent l'y raising suspicious of their
SolVency beforehand and watching the
doubtful lest they suddenly disappear
in the night. And he may be trusted
to be pretty sure ON the average to
lratc up for his losses by sticking
theln ON 20 those who 80 not pay mp.
Two well-,lressed young fellows, APP
narently strangers to each other, We're
giyen rooms on the same floor Of Il cer-
tain hotel. \ day or two later one of
thela said his trunk had lcen stolen.
| ard made such an cutlery that. 10 get
rid of him. the unsuspeeting landlord
| pad him the value of his tlan,. and it's
contents amounting to something like
el1. The young man left and plesnt-
! IL the other gentleman paid his bill and
| also took his Departure. Int in some
| way the dcfraudcd landlord learned la
ter that when gentleman No 2 left he
took with him not only his own trunk
| but the one for which No. ! had been
paid, concealed inside it.
From MarG2tc there comes n tale of a
bold attempt by "foreign countess"
10 get the better of hotel manager.
Aware that hotel keepers are liable for
! the property of guests mp to Il certain
| amount, irrespective of negligence"
! The countess, when her bill was pre-
.onted to hcr, declared that she had
been robbed of a valuable silver belt,
worth more than the amount OF her
! bil. But while the manager was du
biously discussing the point there
topped forward the head chamberlain
and quietly said that he had heard that
Identical silver belt story twice pre-
riously-at Monte Casio two years be-
fore, and at Scarborough last year. At
both places she had happened to be serv-
ing as housemaid. The countess
quickly paid her bill and departed.
One of the most extraordinary rob
berries recorded is the one which was
effected short time ago at a hotel in
the Rue Sophie German, Paris. One
afternoon well-dressed man and Wom-
an arrived at the hotel in question and
took the best bedroom in the house for
one night, raying for it in advance and
| requesting the waiter to call them a.
four o'clocl; the next morning. He did
so. and they left at five O'Clock. But
when the chambermaid went to put the
room in order she met with an astound-
ing sight. The place was nearly hare,
and, in fact, every movable article CT
| furniture had disappeared. The visit
ors, with the aid of accomplices in tho
streets, had managed to lower al
through the window without being per-
ceiyctl.
The death was recently recorded of Il
remarkable scamp who must surely
have been the champion hotel thief o.
the world. lie rejoiced in the name of
| Col. William Addison, and is estimated
10 have in his lifetime departed from
1900 hotels without leaving any money
behind him. His mode of operation
was peculiar and ingenious. He had
| devised contrivances for carrying on
his nefarious career in the shape of an
Addison collapsible trunk and an Adj
Olson balloon hand bag. The trunk ap-
pearcd TO be an expensive leather-cov-
cred affair of large size, which, when
contracted, could be carried under the
arm like an artists portfolio, while the
hand bag could be diminished so as TO
go into pocket. Selecting his hotel
usually high-priced one-the colonel
would FIJI his trunk with bricks and
blow ont his hand bag with straw and
proceed to take up his quarters. At the
least indication of impotence on the
part OF the landlord for payment OF his
bill the colonel, announcing that he WA.
going to the bank, would pack his trun;
in his portfolio and put his bag in his
pocket and depart for good. In this
way he had lived in luxury for man5
years, and. consistent to the end, he
died in hotel and left no money behind
him. London fit-Bits.
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