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Marital mixup implicated in lottery writers case
Sioux City, Iowa, reports pleas of guilty by Mr and Mrs O D Church for perjury and uttering a forged instrument in a fraud marriage scheme involving Miss Dorothy Dunkelman. The couple faced bond of 2500 each as a continuance was granted for missing county attorney. The tale details a man disguised as Clifton Revere winning a long, strange courtship and marriage with Dunkelman, and the broader fraud including purchases and disguises.
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Sioux City
D. Church
Davis Avenue
Morningside
Dorothy Dunkelman
Church
Dunkelman
Miss Dunkelman
Cedar Rapids
Agnes M. Church
Esf
Monay
Linn County
Center Point
Pearsalls
Mrs. Church
Clifton E. Revere