A CLEVER WOMAN.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3556, 20 May 1880, Page 2

A CLEVER WOMAN.

An elegantly-dressed woman lately entered a Paris jeweller's shop and asked to see some valuable gold pins. .While she was examining them, a man began _ playing on a barrel-organ before the door. The music seemed to annoy the lady, and, stepping to the door, she threw a piece of money to him to go away, which he did . at once. On returning to the counter she said that none of the pins suited her, but that, as some compensation for the trouble she had given, she would buy a brooch. She accordingly chose one, and paid ten francs for it, and was learing the shop, when the jeweller missed a diamond pin of great value from among those she had been looking at. jHe accordingly stopped his customer, who seemed highly indignant, and insisted on the jeweller's wife searching her, which was done, but no pin was found. The jeweller therefore allowed , her to leave, but sent his sister to watch her. The woman was soon seen to enter another jeweller's shop and was pretending to make a purchase when the organ* grader made his appearance. As soon as he began, playing she again threw hint some money and ordered him to move on; but the person who was watching her perceived that with the money she had given the man a pbee of jewelry. This was at once made known to the police, who arrested both of them, and found on the. man several articles of jewelry, which had been obtained in a similar manner.