Masqueraded as Nun But Feet Too Big
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GENEV'A, Dee. 2. The cobbler thought the shoes of the nun who made door-to-door eolleetions j were very big. The eaf e up the road thought her appetite and thirst for winq were also very big, and the police | watching the cafe thought the nun took the wrong door when she wenfc to wash her hands. That is why an escaped dangerous crirninal named Auguste Farinet is back in his- oi d cell. Girl-faced Auguste, a 42-year-old confidence trickster, escaped from Sion gaol, broke into a nunnery, stole a Sister of Mercy's robes and donued them. At the nearby eonvent, where no men are admitted, he begged food and lodging. The eonvent nuns weleomed a "mqst pious sister ' ' and the police who saw the sweet-faced nun begging alma, raised. their hats, Auguste prospersd, When the cobbler 's suspicions were aroused by the size of Auguste 's feet the pojice followed him, He had just quaffed four pints of he.ady wine when they arrested him. In his nun's robe Auguste was led baek to Sion gaol— male blqek.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 December 1949, Page 5
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