THEFT FROM “PAUPER”
CHICAGO, .Tan. 21. Otto Freitag saw the folly of trying to keep things up his sleeve. Last October 9 when he became dizzy and collapsed on a street, he asserted somebody took £2420 hidden in the lining of his coat sleeve. Authorities discovered that Freitag had obtained £215 in relief money since August. 1935. Yesterday Judge Justin F. McCarthy sentenced him to a year in the workhouse and 4s and costs for relief fraud and ordered him to make £2OO restitution. Freitag said he would pay it gladly—if he could get the £2420 back.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 2
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97THEFT FROM “PAUPER” Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 2
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