AN EXTRAORDINARY CORRESPONDENCE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1405, 12 November 1886, Page 3

AN EXTRAORDINARY CORRESPONDENCE

A correspondence with hair was once attempted between a notorious Parisian thief in durance vile and his comrades outside. Thepiisoner was sent a letter from his lover, containing merely a Jock of hsir wrapped in the leaf of a bo 'k. The gaoler did not consider the souvenir important enough to be delivered ; but ia a few there came a similar enclosure, and yet another. This aroused suspicion, and the governor took the matter in hand. He examined the leaf of the book. It was that of a common novel, tweu'.y-aix I res on a page Then he studied tie hair, and noticed the small quan ivy i f the gift. Counting the hairs, he fon A •*- . m f unequal length and twentj >llx InQHßlbsl?,'he same as the lioea on the - uc». with the coincidence, he laid the hairs along the lines of the page, which they respectively reached, beginning at the top with the smallest, hair, After some trouble, he found that the end of each hair pointed to a different letter, and that these letters combin'd formed a sl»ng sentence, which informed the prisoners that his friends wore on the watch, and that the next time he left the prison to be examined an attempt would ba made to rescue him. The governor laid his plans accordingly. The st'empt was made, but the rescuers fell into their own trap