AN INGENIOUS FEMALE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2091, 28 August 1890, Page 4

AN INGENIOUS FEMALE.

An ingenious female living in the Boulevard de Rocbechouart, Paris, lately failed in business, and a writ was issued for the sala of her effects. An officer of the : Court or huissier went with a police inspector to the woman’s abode in order to seize her ,goods, but they rang the bell of her door in vain. As the key of her dwelling, however, was m its place, the inspector turned it, and the pair : then entered the room of the debtor, m one of which a strange; and sombre scene was presented to their startled, sight. On - a bed in the centre of the room apparently the, dead body of the female fraud, laid out in all the trappings of woe, and ready for the French equivalent of a “ wakes” Around the presumed corpse were ranged sir tall candlesticks, with lighted tapers therein. The huissier, deeming that ho had to deal with a g nuine dead body, instantly prepared to withdraw with his writ, but the police inspector, more suspicious than the processserver, went over to the bed, and, attracted by the extraordinary plumpness of the arms of the corpse, pinched them with considerable vehemence.. There was an instantaneous bringing of the dead to life. The corpser—chalked carefully as to its face—sat dip in its shroud, spoke words to the effect that the trick had failed, and confessed all. The candles were quickly snuffed out, the mourning drapery pulled down, and the process-server proceeded speedily to confiscate everything appertaining either to life or death in the domicile of this deceitful female debtor.