Easy Money Leads to Bookkeeper's Downfall
Greenwich bookkeeper Louis Lanz, once trusted by town officials and the Ocean Leather Co, is sentenced after a wartime era gambled fortune. Investigations revealed a $192,000 Ocean Leather stake and a $193,000 town shortage, with Lanz receiving jail time while his wife drew $300 monthly from Greenwich funds making the town partial restitution.
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Wethersfield
Louis Lanz
Greenwich
Eau Thummer
Greenwich Society
Ocean
Leather Company
Hale
Louix
Coliy
Simeon Pears
New York
Lanz
Mie
Stamford
Avery
Louis Lang
Ocean Leather Co
Lang
Louis
Tne
Ocean Leather Company
Aio
Stone Company
F. C. Luthi
Fairfield
Ely's Dream Balm for head colds and catarrh
A small bottle of Ely's Cream is advertised for nasal relief. The formula is applied into the nostrils to penetrate air passages, soothing inflamed mucous membranes and easing congestion. The ad promises instant relief from hawking, snuffling, headaches, and breathing difficulties.
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Ely
Good man gone wrong ends in sorrow at Christmas
The piece notes Lanz and another man named to run consecutively. It laments a sordid ending for a good man who, despite friendly relations at the jail and being a model prisoner, fell to quick money temptation. Christmas day casts a cloud over one home due to this propensity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lanz
Swindler dupes chorus girls with cologne stock
New York report details a con at the Selwyn theatre where a man in chauffeur attire sold bottles of perfume labeled as imported cologne worth 10 dollars each for one dollar. The chorus girls paid 28 dollars for a fake stock after a brief exchange. Frank Tinney involved in two recent incidents as Mrs. Tinney tested the scent with no odor.
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Cologne
New York
Dupes
Selwyn Theatre
Frank Tinney
Six Gretna Green Squires Form A Marrying Trust
Louisville dispatch reports six Gretna Green squire magistrates from Jeffersonville Indiana forming a joint marrying trust across the river. The plan ends brokered kidnaping of couples at trains and hotels as they arrive for weddings. Each magistrate works daily and weekly fees are shared to stop price cutting.
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Gretna Green Squires
Louisville
Squires
Jeffersonville
Ind
Gretna Green
James M. Keigwein
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