Hoaxed Burglars : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker
Famous Impostors : Hoaxes Hoaxed Burglars
by
Bram Stoker
Hoaxed Burglars
The above ingenious device recalls another occasion when some gentlemen who made burglary their profession, and who had been paying a midnight visit to the house of a Hull tradesman were sadly “sold.”
They found the cash-box lying handy, and, to their delight, weighty; so heavy indeed that they did not stay to help themselves to anything further.
Next morning the cash-box was found not far from the shop and its contents in an ash-pit close by.
After all the trouble they had taken, to say nothing of the risks they had run, the burglars found their prize consisted only of a lump of lead, and that their intended victim had been too artful for them.
Famous Impostors
Chapter I. Pretenders
A. Perkin Warbeck
B. The Hidden King
C. Stephan Mali
D. The False Dauphins
E. Princess Olive
Chapter II. Practitioners of Magic
A. Paracelsus
B. Cagliostro
C. Mesmer
Chapter III.
The Wandering Jew
Chapter IV.
John Law
Chapter V. Witchcraft and Clairvoyance
A. Witches
B. Doctor Dee
C. La Voisin
D. Sir Edward Kelley
E. Mother Damnable
F. Matthew Hopkins
Chapter VI.
Arthur Orton (Tichborne claimant)
Chapter VII. Women as Men
A. The Motive for Disguise
B. Hannah Snell
C. La Maupin
D. Mary East
Chapter VIII. Hoaxes, etc.
A. Two London Hoaxes
B. The Cat Hoax
C. The Military Review
D. The Toll-Gate
E. The Marriage Hoax
F. Buried Treasure
G. Dean Swift’s Hoax
H. Hoaxed Burglars
I. Bogus Sausages
J. The Moon Hoax
Chapter IX.
Chevalier d’Eon
Chapter X.
The Bisley Boy
