UNUSUAL CRIMES
Forged Cheques to Buj Rare Books (Eeceived 10, 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. The Department of Justice to-day a*a notunced the arrest of one of the most unusual criminals in the annals of crim# in America. He was an impersonator who specialised in proxninenfc people and praetised .f of gery. The . names he used most frequently were Franklin Eoosevelt, Theo.dora RooseveTt, junr.# Alfrhd Dupont and others. He specialised in forged cheques, with which' he purchased rare books. Hi* masterstroke was to telegraph his own parents that he was dead, and asked f or; fund's to send his body home.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 5
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