NEW YORK SENSATION
MUSICA COMMITS SUICIDE CALLED AMERICA’S NO. 1 SWINDLER. TWO BROTHERS IDENTIFIED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 16. Suffering from heart disease, and continuously throughout the night consulting attorneys in his palatial Connecticut home, Musica, alias Coster (whose arrest and identification are reported in an earlier cablegram) this morning committed suicide with a pistol, adding another fantastic detail to the extraordinary portrait of America’s Number 1 swindler.
Suicide was apparently always at the back of Musica’s mind, because he attempted to shoot himself after the “human hair” swindle. It is now further revealed that two other officials of McKesson and Robbins, under indictment with Coster, are his brothers George and Arthur Musica.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1938, Page 8
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