A HUGE SWINDLE
FINANCIERS AND BANKS DUPED WORTHLESS NOTES AND Bogus deeds By Telegra.ph--Pre»B Association—Copyright (Rec. August 21, 11.20 p.m.) New York, August 23. At Chicago eight men were arrested, 1,602,000 dollars in securities recovered, and confessions obtained from three persons accused in the Federal Government’s investigation of an alleged huge swindling trust. Federal agents are convinced that tho financial markets of the nation have beep-deluged with millions of bad notes, stolen bonds, bogus deeds of trust, and forged certificates of deposit. Financiers, 'business men, banks, and investment houses from the Atlantic to tho Pacific are said to have been duped in one of tho greatest swindles recorded by the Department of Justice, whose agents have a’ready traced six million dollars’ worth of stolen bonds, and nearly three million dollars, in worthless notes and other securities.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 284, 25 August 1921, Page 5
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138A HUGE SWINDLE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 284, 25 August 1921, Page 5
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