A SHREWD FEMALE SWINDLER.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2542, 28 February 1877, Page 3

A SHREWD FEMALE SWINDLER.

HOW A BOSTON DBY GOODS ESTABLISHMENT WAS VICTIMISED. . . ..; One of the sharpest cases of swindling which has tecently occurred in this vicinity took place yesterday at one of our prominent dry goods stores, not far from the corner of Winter and Washing" ton streets. A finely dressed lady appeared in the shawl department of the store in question, and, after careful examination, selected a camel's hair shawl costing about §100, for which she tendered in payment a $1000 bill, which was carefully scrutinised by the cashier, who, doubting his own power of discrimination, dispatched a messenger to the bank to ascertain the genuineness of tho bill. Meanwhile the lady customer had become anxious to procure the change, ahdhad approached the locality occupied by the man of scrip when the messenger returned and announced in an audible tone that the cashier of the bank said that the bill was good. The lady upon hearing this waxed exceeding wroth and demanded to know I " whether he thought that she would attempt to pass a counterfeit bill." Of course apologies and explanations were of no avail; and assuming to be highly indignant, she refused to purchase•" the shawl, demanded her money, and departed from the store the very embodiment of righteous indignation. A couple of hours afterward she returned considerably mollified, and confessed that she was pleased with the shawl, and that her inability to find one which she liked as well was the' only reason.; ; she ri?» turned, and she concluded to take it, which the obliging salesman proceeded to have prepared, while the courteous cashier, disdaining to entertain a suspicion against such a lady, proceeded to count out th* $900 change, -with which and ifershaw! the lady departed. The feelings of that storekeeper can be better imagined than described when he awoke to a realising sense of the fact that his lady customer had, after all his precaution, succeeded in passing upon him a counterfeit $1000 bill. It appears that anticipating just what had occurred, she had provided herself witli a good bill, which played its partin the early stages of the game, after which it retired in favor of the counterfeit.—Boston Herald •____________