THE SHARPER
DETECTED AND EXPOSED.
BY
ROBERT-HOUDIN.
"Éclairez les dupes, il n'y aura plus de fripons."
Montesquieu.
LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. 1863.
LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
[PREFACE.]
Having often been requested by different magistrates, to investigate cases of sharping, I have often been struck, while doing so, with the obstacles and embarrassments which a judge's own honesty must oppose to his elucidation of matters of sharping and cheating at play.