OLD MAN’S DOUBLE LIFE
Paris, June 2. Picard, the cashier at the Opera ('(unique, has been arrested on a eltarge of Hie embezzlement of half a million Cranes. The evidence showed th.al' though lie was apparent I v a model husband for 30 years, and wtis (id years of age. lie led a double life.
The police searched a room in a small hotel which Picard rented, and found a collection of smart suits, boots, faultless linen, and five wigs. Every day lie went to I lie room an old man, and left it a gay, spruce youth. He dined at the most expensive restaurants’ with a young girl, and then returned to the hotel, and went home, elderly, bald, and bent.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2741, 5 June 1924, Page 2
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122OLD MAN’S DOUBLE LIFE Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2741, 5 June 1924, Page 2
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