BOGUS FOOD CONTRACT
' BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S CLEVER ; SWINDLE , New 'York, January 23. The United Press Agency reports' from Berlin that the beautiful jTrau' i Kupfer and her daughter swindled*some of Berlin's leading citizens of, . 2,000,000 marks by means' of a. bogusfood contract with a' company .paying tremendous dividends. Both have been' i arrested.—Am-N.Z..Cable.Xs'snV7 A GREAT SWINDLE (Rcc. January 24, SJH p.m.) 1 London, January 23.- • Berlin is excited, the great swindle resembling the Humbert case. A young- ■ looking widow, Maria Rupfer, and her daughter, a well-known beauty, opened a Jjiwision shop. Fashionable custom*.' ers, principally oldish and wealthy gentleman, lent her three million, marks. They did a huge business, and' entertained lavishly. A depositor, becoming suspicious, demanded repayment of his money, and was refused!/ 'fhe widow and her daughter ha,v6 beoa' arrested. —"The Times."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2986, 25 January 1917, Page 5
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133BOGUS FOOD CONTRACT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2986, 25 January 1917, Page 5
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