Two Beggars Of Paris

People in aris have been deceived recently by two remai-kable beggars. One was an old widow of over 80. She had Deen living in a house in the Rue du Texel, upon the charity tf the other lodgers. She was an object of pity, this distressed. yet ladylike and gentle old woman, and the little purse made up for her each week was contributed to gladly by those who were under the same roof with her. Her room remained loeked for over forty-eight hours and the pólice were called in. The old woman lay upon her bed. A doctor was called. He sald she was dead, and an examination indicated that the cause was starvation. There seemed to be nothing worth making an inventory of, but the pólice investigated perfunctorily and under a heap of rubbish they found 3,500 francs in large bank notes. A more careful search revealed in the straw of her bed a heap of bonds and other secnrities to the value of 30,000 francs. The "poor" old woman's heirg are being sought for, bjit there is not the faintest clue to them. A clever swindler presented himself In Paris under the guise of a deaf muts. He was flrst noticed by the pólice while conducting an energetic begging campaign from house to house. Upon being arrested he went into an energetic pantomime, to which the officers paid little attention In the pólice station he suddenly lost his infirmity nnd uttered a torrent of invective against the pólice. It was afterwards found out that, speaking five languages, he had plied his trade in all the countries of Europe and with remarkable success. His method of operation was to visit only the houses of the wealthy and to strike for large sums. In Paris his operations netted him not less than fifty francs a day. He would first write to the families he intended to visit. They were always of the foreign colony. The letters would detail his pltiable state. They were well written and seemed to have the impress of truth upon them. A few days later he would cali, and, contriving to I i seen by master or mistress, would show a host of certiflcates of physicians, mayors of cities and commissaries of pólice in proof of what he had written. The interviews with these wealthy people were naturally had upon paper, and the answers to the questions put to him would be so beautifully and carefully written that they would seldom fall to win the sum sought. This young man - Gustav Remshager - ia now held by the pólice, and his conviction is practically assured.