CRIME CAREER ENDED.
MILLIONAIRE CROOK EXECUTED
By C&Mq—Press Association—CopjTight. Außtraliau and N.Z. Cable Associatloa, NEW YORK, July 16. Russell Scott, a former millionaire financier, has been hanged, after a remarkablo criminal career.
Owing to affaire with . women, he went through a fortune, and became successively a salesman, actor and bootlogger. In April of last year he killed a. man in an altercation over a bottle of whisky. He admitted that he had been a highwayman, and had participated in 65 robberies.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 20 July 1925, Page 3
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81CRIME CAREER ENDED. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 20 July 1925, Page 3
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