MILLIONAIRE BECOMES PAUPER.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1919, Page 8

MILLIONAIRE BECOMES PAUPER.

The intolerable spectre of guilt kept secret foi four years flayed Millard 11. Cutter into a public confession in Chicago, when he admitted that he had forged bonds of an aggregate value of hall' a million dollars. Until Christmas not even his wife had suspeeHed that their life of ease had been paid for by her husband's honor and peace of conscience. But Cutter was unable further to keep his secret, 'mid the knowledge of his undiscovered crime drove him to unburden his mind to the young woman with ■whom he had eloped nine years ago. It was determined that as soon as Mrs. Cutter could arrange to open her music studio and to become self-supporting, Cutter would surrender himself to the Chicago police. Accordingly, i n faultless attire the broker told 'his story to Clarence Dai-row, the well-known American Labor attorney. Cutter's next act was to give himself up to the police Formal complaint was made against him by the Chicago Title and Trust Company, which had" loaned llim 100,000dol. on forged bonds '-J ilm nearer happiness than 1 have been for four years," said Cutter, when seen in bis cell the next day by a newspaper man "F have quit lying to mvself. Yesterday I was a millionaire To-day T am a. happy pauper." Outer tdid' Harrow that, he had invested much of the money he had obtained through the use of' forged bonds in iron mines in Missouri, which had not been profitable.