BOGUS COUNT'S LOVE AFFAIRS.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH 500
GIRLS
A BIG SWINDLE WORKED.
United Press Association. —Copyright.) ~~ Received 12.20 a.m., April 14. ROMEj April 13. A self-styled Count Lepanno Battista da jCavicchy, the "son of indigent parents, has been arrested at jStraaa." Ld Panno, by means of matrjmdniaT advertisements, corresponded with 500 so-; ciety girls. The policeXfound a hundred' love letters, including one" from a princess». .
JLe Panno became the fiance of Guisseppina Mutti, at Milan, aged twenty. He represented himself to be the heir to a colossal fortune. He said he urgently needed £4000 and induced her to simulate a burglary of the family palaca and hand him all her mother's and her jewellery and sign bills of exchange. The family redeemed the jewellery for £4000 to hush up the scandal. Many pawn tickets were found on Le* Panno, being the proceeds of jewellery crobDeries.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20054, 14 April 1914, Page 5
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