Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — A Beggar’s Stratagem. [ARTICLE]

A Beggar’s Stratagem.

A Paris beggar has been living very comfortably by hanging himself. He would choose a tree where young children were playing, string himself up, and groan to attract their attention, so that they would run for help. He would be cut down and restored, and a letter in his pocket would explain his attempted suicide by a statement of his destitution. He knew how to attach the noose so is to avoid strangulation.