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Milwaukee Police Save Elderly Man’s $10,000 in Swindle PlotMilwaukee —I?)— An ex-convict was jailed Thursday after an alert detective foiled ars attempt to swindle an elderly man of $10,000on the old fixed race’* dodge.After that:Adrian Dudley, 49*vear-o!d former inmate of the Atlanta federal penitentiary, was charged with attempted gross fraud and an attempted confidence game.An accomplice, identified as Douglas Raymond, was sought on the confidence charge.And Ernest Dankwardt, 66, put his money back in a bank.It all started when Detective i Harry Cronee noticed Dankwardt, | a retired brewery employe, drav;-ing $5,000 in bills from his account at a bank and trust lirm, Crooce followed Dankwardt and saw him meet Dudley outside. The pair then went to a bank where Dankwardt cashed S7,4S0 in bonds. He was about to join his companion when Cronce picked Dudley up.Story Told PolityDankwardt told police this story:He met Dudley, who used the name of Greer, last month at St. Petersburg. Fla., while eating together, Dudley picked up a purse containing $43 and a card bearing the name of Otto Schultz.(Schultz was Raymond’s alias, Dudley later admitted.)The two located Raymond, who promised to reward their honesty by sharing a sure thing” at the track. Each would put up $10,000and share in an expected $100,000 profit.Dankwardt and Dudley came here by train so Dankwardt could draw out funds for the project. Raymond came by car.Dudley told police Raymond must have skipped when he saw me get arrested.”How Plan WorkedIn 1949 Dankwardt, bottle house employe of the Schlitz Brewing Company, reached the age of 65 and retired on his social security benefits. He had been thrifty, he had money in the bank, he had bonds, he owned the duplex helived in.A little over a month ago Dankwardt wearied of the chill Milwaukee winter and decided to seek sunshine in Florida. So he went to St. Petersburg.About a week ago, he ran into a smooth talking fellow who called himself Raymond E. Greer and said he was a novelty manufacturer and salesman from Atlanta. Greer was vacationing, too.They got along just dandy. They were eating in a St. Petersburg restaurant on Monday when Greer muttered an exclamation, reached down tinder the table and brought up a purse. It contained $45 in cash and a card carrying the name of Otto Schultz from some city in Ohio.Dankwardt didn’t recall the city.Maybe it was Iowa,” he said here Thursday in his thick German-American dialect.Let's find this fellow Schultz,” Greer told Dankwardt. We got to return this money.”Dankwardt was suitably impressed with Greer’s honesty. They soon found Schultz in a St. Petersburg hotel. They went up to bis room and returned the purse.Schultz was overcome. The money wasn’t so much to him. Dankwardt could believe that, for he saw some bundles of greenbacks lying on a table. (An old trick—one good bill on top of a stack of stage money can do the iob.)But Schultz couldn’t get over praising the honesty of the two. Such honesty deserved a great big reward. A thought struck him.Here’s the chance to make a (Continued on Pi§* Vi, Column 7) MILWAUKEE
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Winona Republican Herald
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