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4 * ISwindlers LoseFreedom Fight(Continued from Page One)George Holden and Harry Marshall*They talked Mrs. Turner into giving them,the family’s life savings,' ,$22,504, to use in making “sure thing” bets at horse tracks. In return the.con men gave Mrs. Turner a $203,600 draft as their combined winnings, with, instructions that she was to meet them in Houston to cash the draft and divide the money.The con., men didn’t .keep the date. The draft was worthless. Mrs. Turner was hospitalized from shock. ;The FBI trailed Londos and Dudley all'-.over the U. S.1 both being wanted for a series of swindles• r ----cuts1 “are' going to hurt” and “arehurting.us now” but. they must bemade. “We ought to' be able to strike a proper balance some-iwhere.” •• Twining “feels, very stronglythat the Cordiher Pay Plan, needsto be enacted into law. He said heavy turnover and manpowerlosses are the military’s “biggestweakness” and will be even , moreof a problem because precision►totaling $290,000. All their victims‘were women. /• ADudley was nabbed in Florida inMarch of 1955. Londos was arrested in Cincinnati in May of 1955 as he was trying to swindle a wealthy Arkansas widow of $20,000.The U. S. Fifth Circuit . Court of Appeals upheld conviction of the con men in January of this year. An appeal in the form of a writ of certiorari was taken to the Supreme Court. The high court denied the writ, and now the Fifth Circuit Courth as issued an order sending the pair - to prison.
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Wed, Aug 14, 1957
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Robert F.
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