AN ENTERPRISING THIEF.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2423, 21 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN ENTERPRISING THIEF.

There are a good many ways of living upon one's wits, but certainly (says n Paris correspondent) that resorted to by a certain Mdlle. Roy, who bus just been brought up before the Paris Police Court, has tho merit of originality. This ingenious lady patrols the streets on the lookout for an accideut, if she happens to see a pedestrian run over by an omnibus, or a person fall down in a fit, she makes for the scene of the accident, and accompanies the victim to the nearest chemist or to his home, bewailing the misfortu.ie and representing herself to be tho relative of the sufferer, on whom she lavishes sisterly or motherly affection as the ca-o may br-. When she is alone in the cab with him she relievos him of his watch or and money ho may have, in his pocket, and finally on (me pretext or another, gets 'out of the cab for a few minutes, telling the driver to wait for her. Of course .she never returns, and the cabman after wating some time takes bis faro to the nearest police station. The career of this enterprising lady lias just been cut short by flic sentence of six months' imprisonment passed upon her. She has been exercising lie." profession, however, it appears, for several months with g.-iod pecuniary result?.