YOUNG MAN'S ADVENTURES
Something worse than gaol has been discovered by George Anderson, who was wanted, by the police for the embezzlement of £19,000 from a Chicago bank, states the New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail." Like other young men have done, Anderson went to Europe with money and enjoyed the delights of Paris and ftjonte Carlo, finally losing all his money. He enlisted, according to his own story, in the Foreign Legion, but before joining up was arrested by the French police on an indictment for forgery and embezzlement issued by a Federal grand jury. When the police learned that lip had enlisted in the Legion they let him go and stay in the Foreign Legion. Anderson said bo suffered the torments of hell and deserted. He returned to Chicago with thirty cents in his pockets, and his clothes in rags. . Tho police found him asleep in the basement of a house after he had spent several nights in open parks and public squares. His comment on his arrest was, "I'm glad it's over. I'm ready for any punishment prepared for me."
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 24
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184YOUNG MAN'S ADVENTURES Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 24
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