MATRIMONIAL SWINDLER.
REMARKABLE CASE AT GENEVA. (Received 6. 10.0 a.m.) Geneva, March 5. Ferdinand Nater. 52. a handsome and fashionably dressed man, was charged at Zurith with obtaining money from fifteen women under promises of marriage. He pleaded: “I have a loving heart and am quite unable to resist women.” Most of his victims are young widows. Three of five present in Court tearfully besought the judge to liberate Nater. The other two intimated that they would bring breach of promise actions. Nater declared that the majority of the women themselves proposed. He was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. and also to three vears’ loss of civic rights.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 70, 6 March 1923, Page 5
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110MATRIMONIAL SWINDLER. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 70, 6 March 1923, Page 5
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