A PARISIAN SWINDLE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1641, 11 January 1883, Page 3

A PARISIAN SWINDLE.

A hUOßTtinif ago an elegantly-dressed lady called on one of the best known mad -doctors in Paris, and in a voice broken with sobs, exclaimed — "Doctor, you are my only hope now. My poor son is a monomaniac : he is quite harmless : his irhe fix, is that; he is a cashier in ct bank, and to everybody he meets he piesenls a bill or account and demands payment, lie has already got himself into soiious difficulties, and I don't know what to do.'' And lieic this tears began to cour&e each other down the lair ple.uici'o checks. The doctor did the best to checi the unhappy mother, asked hci unions questions, and finally gave some hope of cm ing the boy. She diied hoi tears, and said that she would leave hci son in his hands. I will bring him te you to moriow ; but, oh doctor, the bcpaiation w ill bo eiiu'l." Next morning she appealed with the bo} . "Tell your mastoi," she said to the ser\a"it \\ho opened the dooi, "that the person he expects is hero," and, taking a parcel from her son's hands, told him to wait a tew minutes. She then retired by a side ontiancc which the doctor had shown liei, .md had advised her to pass in older to ti\ oid a mournful and, perhaps, exciting fan-well with her son. Quarter of an hour passed, the docter entered the waiting loom, and the young man presented his account. "Quite right, my lad. I will settle with you dneetly," and he felt the young man's pulse, "formal pule, "says the man ot science. "My master will be uneasy ; please give me the money at once." But the doctor ga/,ed fixedly at him and tried to feel his pulse. Let go !" exclaimed the monomaniac, getting into a passion. "Pay me at once, and doit make a fool of yourself." "Violent attack," says the doctor calmly, and he pulled a bell-rope rather violently. "The shower bath, he explained to his two attendants ; and in a twinkling the \oung man was stripped, and a stream of ice cold water was ponruiL,' o\ er him. Ho howled, he kicked, but uselessly. When the doctor came to s( c th«, efl< j et of the ojeiation he was much surpi isod to iind Ins patient maddei than e\er, vowing vengeance at one moment and tiie next iiaploung his tortuieibto send to a ]ewcllcr m the Rue de la Paiv, and ask him to come and release him. When the doctor heard the woul •'jewellei'" a light bioke upon him. Me despatched an attendant to the Eve de la I'aiv, and in a few minutes the jeweller appeircd upon the ncene. He turned semewhaj; pale when matcers were explained to linn, for he saw r himself lobbed of 2fi,ooofrancsbyainostingouious (hivull-u d' 'millet i n\ She had chosen jewellei y to that amount, but not having the money witii her, she had said — ''Let your clerk come with me ; I live in the A \ emus d'Eylan, and my husband will pay the aocouut.''