FRENCH IMPERSONATIONS.
The French Tribunal lias condemned a 3*ming ruffian to death, aged 13. He defied' the jury to condemn him, accused society of making him a criminal, ttnd declared that he had such influential relations in the prison that he could easily obtain the means to commit suicide. For the moment, the most successful swindlers are those who personate some well-known character. A man made himself up to represent Mace, chief of the detective force, and by means of an old bath ticket, convinced a few of his victims that the other was a swindler, and “ wanted.” A poor Turk rolled a stone in a newspaper, and shied it into a jeweller’s plate-glass shop window in the Pallis Foyal. Hebolted and wascaught, but the fellow who seized some cases of diamonds through the broken glass was overlooked. The police have been cleverer at.the Theatre des Nations. Two of the [force enlisted among the hired soldiers, one as fifer and the other as drummer. By this means they were enabled to arrest six young vagabonds, who followed the drum on the stage at night, after shop-lifting all day.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2170, 20 February 1880, Page 3
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188FRENCH IMPERSONATIONS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2170, 20 February 1880, Page 3
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