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Love Cheater M ust Repay Her Postal SweetheartsDETROIT, May 10 (AP)—Federal Judge Ernest A. O Brien ruled that Mrs. Beulah Geraldine Brill, Port Huron (Mich.) housewife must re^y the money she obtained from men with whom she earned on correspondence. Mrs. Brill, v*ho has a 22-year-old son ^ a ^ugl\te^1 17, pleaded guiltv to a Federal charge of using the n*ails to defraud. The court sentenced her to two years’ imprisonment, but suspended sentence on condition she pay back the?' money. Federal probation officers will determine the amount she owes each -man.Federal authorities said she admitted having received, $1,000 from Paul Schwald, of Puyallup, Wash., ever a period of time under the pretense she was ill and needed money for medical care before she could marry him.Mrs. Brill said that in eight'years she had corresponded with about 100 men. She obtained names, she said, from correspondence clubs, then wrote to them representing herself as ‘'single, young and interested in marriage.”‘“I started writing letters for fun,” she said. “Then some of the men started to send money. I found it easier to keep it than to send it back.”
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Southern Germany Stars and Stripes
Altdorf, Bavaria, DE
Sat, May 11, 1946
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