AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.
M. Emmanuel Rodriguez, a Spaniard, confidential clerk to M. J. Halphen, a wealthy diamond merchant, and who was treasurer to the society for aiding the volunteers of 1870-71, and gained the Cross of the Legion of Honor during the war, had occasion lately to call upon some person at the Grand Hotel in Paris. It appears that lately some boots and shoes have been stolen in the passages of the hotel, and it so happenec that M. Rodriguez, the passage in which he was walking not being very light, stumbled against a pair of boots. As he was picking them up to replace them one of the waiters, who was on the watch, cried out “ Stop thief,” and M. Rodriguez foolishly ran off, but was soon stopped, and handed over to the police. Having to do with a very stupid officer, he could not get himself brought to the inten-dant-general, who knew him personally, and he had to pass the night in the station.
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 197, 26 January 1875, Page 3
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167AN AWKWARD MISTAKE. Globe, Volume II, Issue 197, 26 January 1875, Page 3
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