ROUGH ON RATS AND FRENCHMEN.
An ingenious fraud
Enormous business has been 'done lately at French fairs by a man who professed to .sell a rat powder -that was perfectly harmless and that struck rats dead on the spot.- In order to convince the sceptical, the man first of all powdered a slice of bread with the stuff and [ate a piece himself. Then he put the remainder under a glass' case, in which a rat was kept in captivity. The rat went to eat the bread and instantly foil dead. At 5d a box the powder went off lifee hot rolls, and the lucky proprietor of the specific was in a fair way to. make a fortune. But the police, who in France are very active in protecting the people from fraud,;, looked into the matter and found that the powder was. nothing- but ordinary sugar. ... They also, discovered that the case was connected with a powerful electric battery, and that the moment, the rat touched the bread the current was turned on, and it was thus that his death was brought about. The man was arrested at a fair of Albi.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1756, 3 August 1895, Page 2
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193ROUGH ON RATS AND FRENCHMEN. Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1756, 3 August 1895, Page 2
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