A CLEVER ROGUE.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 928, 22 July 1891, Page 3

A CLEVER ROGUE.

A French nobleman who had suffered much from thieves utSt. Petersburg made a wrger with n member of I ho royal funnily that he could jroduco Russian thieves wlio would rob a man at the dinner tublo, nnd he might use every piecuutiou lo prt-vont it. To (he dinner v number of guests sat down.

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