MILLIONAIRE BECOMES PAUPER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1961, 5 April 1919, Page 4

MILLIONAIRE BECOMES PAUPER.

Tlie intolerable speetre o( guilt kepi secret foi four years Hayed Millard IT. Cutter into a public confession in Chicago, when be admil--IcG that lie bad forged bonds of an aggregate value of.half a. million ■dollars. Until Christmas not even bis wife bad suspected I bat I heir life of ea.se had been paid for by her husband's honour and peace of conscience. But Culler was unable ftirllier to keep bis secret, and the knowledge of bis undiscovered crime drove him to unburden bis mind to the young woman with whom lie haul eloped nine years ago. it was determined (bat as soon as Airs Cut lev could arrange (o open her music studio and to become self-support-ing, (hitter would surrender himself to the Chicago police. Accordingly, in faultless at lire the broker (old In's story to (3amice Darrow, the well-known American Labour attorney. Culler's next act was to give himself up (o the police. Formal complaint was made against him by the Chicago Title and Trust Company, which bad loaned him 109.090 dot, on forged bonds. “I am nearer happiness than 1 have been for four years." said Culler, when seen in tiis cell the next day by a newspaper man. ‘‘l have quit lying to myself. Yesterday i was a millionaire. Today I am a happy pauper.” Cutter told Harrow that lie had invested much of the money lie bad obtained through the use of forged bonds in iron mines in .Missouri, which had not been profitable.