BOGUS LEGACY.
FRENCH “HEIRESS” IMPRISONED. . PARIS, N0v.26. A i omance of a million dollar legacy has ended, the supposed heiress being sentenced eo a year’s imprisonment. She was Madame Leotardi, of world-wide notoriety as a heiress who received a middion dollars from Miss Fair Heller, of Boston, on oondiaion that she took charge of the latter’s menagerie of wild beasts. On the .strength of a supposed legacy Leotardi borrowed one hundred thousand francs from Parisian business people. Whey, the loan was not repaid the authorities started an inquiry which for two vears and extended to. Europe. America, and Japan. As Heller could not be traced the wili was pronounced a forgery. Leotardi was imprisoned.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 December 1924, Page 5
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114BOGUS LEGACY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 December 1924, Page 5
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