Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — Spiders in the Cheese. [ARTICLE]

Spiders in the Cheese.

Andre Laturbe, a young Parisian who thought he had solved the problem of living at other people’s expense, has been arrested for a most ingenious

fraud, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Paris correspondent says. His method was to go to a fashionable restaurant and dine well. When he got to the cheese stage he produced from his pocket a little tin box full of spiders. To Introduce a couple of spiders on the plate from which he was eating his cheese was the work of a moment. Then he called the waiter and protested loudly against the filthiness of supplying food with spiders in it. On the arrival of the manager he protested still more loudly and the ruse Invariably ended by the distract ed manager hushing the thing up by inviting the outraged customer to take a glass of old brandy and tendering profuse apologies. Of course the waiter was instructed to present no bill. But finally Laturbe, in choosing a restaurant where he has not been before, happened to choose one that employed a waiter who had seen his trick at another establishment. This man quietly sent for the police and when Laturbe had been arrested and searched the box of spiders was found In his pocket.