Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-26
TRIO OF ANCESTORS.
How They Robbed and Fooled Con
 fiding Doctor.

London, June 26. = The Paris
 correspondent of London pa
 per describes as anything but
 enviable the feelings of a worthy doc
 tor settled in a very fashionable dis
 trict of that city who, after attempt
 ing the cure of a young woman pro-
 fessedly afflicted with kleptomania,
 has himself fallen victim to a clever
 but utterly interruptions trick. About
 a week ago he was sitting in his con-
 sulting room when the bell rang, and
 presently a man of gentlemanly ap-
 pearance and lady of mature age,
 accompanied by pretty and fascin-
 ating girl, were ushered in. The male
 visitor introduced himself as mar
 quis dwelling at certain number in
 a well-known avenue, and said that
 the elderly woman was his wife and
 the beautifuI damsel their daughter
 A few polite remarks on general topics were exchanged, and then the
 protesting marquis drew the physi-
 elan into a corner, and in low and dis lowing tale: His daughter, he ex- plained, was a charming girl. She was lovely, as he could judge for him. self, accomplished, amiable and when married she would have very re- spectable dowry, as her parents were we'll endowed with this worlds goods. Unfortunately there was a dark side to this otherwise bright picture. AL though lavishly provided with pocket money and supplied with everything that she could possibly desire, the young woman was confirmed klep- tomaniac. She could not enter a shop without endeavoring to purloin some article, and even her friends spoons and forks were not secure from her too enterprising fingers.
 Then, coming to the point, the so- called marquis asked the doctor whether he would be willing to un- dertake the cure of this very dis tressing case. He would not be daunted by any expense, and in proof of this assertion he pulled out a bundle of bank notes and laid them on the table. The physician, consid- erably impressed by all this candor and by this practical method of trans acting business, readily consented to take ths young woman for a course of treatment into his own house, and the next day saw her installed there with maid provided by her family in special attendance on her. The girl was to be cured fof her thieHish propensities through the medium of hypnotism, will stronger than her 1 +11 est ways. All went we'll for four or five days, much to the satisfaction of the good doctor, who had not missed a single article of his property, and who firmly believed that his course of treatment had been crowned with re- markable success. When, however, he returned from his round of visits the other evening he found, to his infinite bewilderment, that the birds had flown. As it had been expressly agreed that his fair patient should remain indoors for awhile, so as to be spared the temptation afforded by the spectacle of attractive shop he was greatly annoyed. But this was nothing in comparison with his state of mind when an in spection of his premises revealed the painful fact that bank notes to the amount of nearly 1000 had also and with them jewelry and divers objects dart worth quite 6 400. He eonsoled himself with the that he would in all prob ability recover his property at the residence of the young lady's noble father, and thither he proceeded in haste, to find, to his anguish, that the family in question, which he now be- held for the first time in the flesh, had been personated by a trio of au- dacious impostors. Then the poor doctor took his weary way to the of flee of the police commissary, with the old familiar tale. Detectives are hunting in every direction for the thieves, but so far they have failed to track them to their lair