THE BITER BIT.
A remarkable Instance of the " bltor bit" bsß bean recorded. It appears that one day a. youug lady — a day governeßß m an English provincial town — was m a tramway car, when a stylish gentleman oame m, and was careful to show prominently a valuable diamond ring he were on one of bis fingers, aping at the same time the manners of an aristocrat. It was not long before he got oat, and the young lady, on getting to her stage on her way home, stepped oat as well, but to find, on patting her hand into her pocket, that hor parße v?aj gone. Sha, howeyer, found a straDga article ia hor pocket, which, to her astonishment, turned oat to be the identical ring which her fellow-traveller had been so unostentatiously displaying. Examination proved that the ring was no flash article, a jewellor appraising It at the value of at least £30. Fortunately for the lady, there was only 2a m the purßa which she lost. The ring had evidently slipped pff the pick-pockot's finger when he was In the aot of abatractlng her putßj.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1823, 24 April 1888, Page 3
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188THE BITER BIT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1823, 24 April 1888, Page 3
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