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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 266, 23 May 1888, Page 6

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The Piacc Overrun wifli t-'^pcrt Rascals. Tin "London World' Monte Carlo letter .slates: The place is o\orrun with thieves both English and foieiqn, and 1 legict to state thai ,v>ui couiiLiyniei' pieponderate to a extent, u'itli a notoiious chaiactei, who cii|oys the .-obn(j[uot of 'Flash Fled," a^ then head. Let me explain that MrSehnbe, tlio Ejigli-h detectne, is- no loiiLrer cng iged at the Casino by the administiation ; consequently all' soits ot disioput.ible chaiacLcKs obtain entree to the pl.i\ and conceit looms by deceiving the commi—aiie-. in spite of the precautions adopted by tho latter in the issue ot ad-mis-ion tickets. The audacity of these j\agdionds i- almost past boliot ; but an occunonco happcneil a lew days since a\ Inch will coiioborale my statement A Colonel of the (iuaids happened to notice the cek b iiy alluded to in the sallo do jeu, and instantly drew the attention of one ot the -uponoi employe- to the circumstance by intoiminci him ot his ti ue character ; whereupon the oiiicial leplied that 'Monsieur must bo mistaken, as tho accused person had lepie&ontcd himself as a chef de paitie of the London seciot jwlice !' Thereupon C>loucl M. on plained that the follow had sci \ed ii\c jeais at the Iravaux foicos for loiyciy. Aiew nights previously, another Englisiiman, equally well known as CoU.nel M , who moves in the best ciicles, was. lobbed ot his ' locket'embroidered note case, containing moncv and private jiapers trom tho bieast pocket of a buttoned-up lackct, while st.uuling at one of tho tables. The opeiatoi in thi- l.isc was a stip]-)o&ed fellow-countryman, with whom secret communication -was r-übscqucntly held through some pi i\ a to ch.mnel, in tho hope of i ocovering the mi^c•ing oase and papers, minus the mouec, 'to which they wcic welcome!' In due time (ho loser received a reply stating that tho notecase and papers had been sunk in the Mediterranean, and at the end of the lettoi was a polite lcquest to know tho amount oi money thcic was in the sachet, as theio was reason to suspect that one of the contedorac3r, consisting of Knglishmon and (iciman ami Italian women, ' had not turned all in !'