MASQUERADING AS A BISHOP.
DISGRACEFUL RUSE. (Sydney Sun Cable.) London, February 15.”* ■ The directors of a private bank in Paris, in order to impress the. sbarcholders, dressed a butler in bishop’s robes and seated him amongst the company. During the meeting “the bishop’s episcopal staff was left in a prominent place in the cloak-room. During the proceedings, “the bishop” employed the time reading. An inquisitive shareholder, peeping over “his lordship’s” shoulder to see what was being read, was electrified to see that the bishop was enjoying the columns of a highly spicy comic journal. The fraud was at once discovered. The principals of the bank fled, taking with them the treasury. '
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 2
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111MASQUERADING AS A BISHOP. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 2
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