COLOSSAL FRAUDS.
PSEUDO-COUNT'S CAREER. (By Cable—Prees Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N. 2. Cubic Association.) ROME, May G. A sensation has been caused by the arrest of the pseudo-Count Cortcsc, an ex-Army officer and journalist, in connexion with colossal frauds.
, Cortcsc amassed' a fortune soiling war material to Italy during the Tripolitan and present wars, and then started a gigantic theatrical trust and combine of leading newspapers. Ho surrounded himself with leading Italian nobility, and with the assistance of two individuals resembling prominent I'iedmontese capitalists, he secured, by means of forgeries, vast credits on financial houses.
Commendatoro Manfredini, head director of the Bank of R-ttnio, has been arrested as an accomplice, and also Cortese's legal adviser.
Cortese's personal debts exceed a quarter of a million sterling.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15895, 8 May 1917, Page 7
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COLOSSAL FRAUDS.
Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15895, 8 May 1917, Page 7
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