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Show Colorado Perpetrator Of Immense Swindle Arrested NEWCASTLE, Wyo Sept 11 Assuming the role of a modern Robin Hood, C. D. Waggoner, the Telluride, Colo., bank president, whose main street shrewdness cost Wall Street's wizards $500,000, confessed con-fessed here today that he alone conceived con-ceived and executed the gigantic New York bank swindle to repay depositors for the losses they had sustained through the closing down of large mines in the Telluride district, dis-trict, owned by eastern and English interests, and the withdrawal of deposits by the owners of those properties. Within a few hours after his ar-rest ar-rest at Chambers Park, a resort north of here, last night, Waggoner had dropped his assumed manners of the sauve eastern financier for the simplicity of the small town business man. His confession was complete. It was given without urge to amazed sheriff's deputies in a dismal cell of the county jail here. "I'm glad it's over," Waggoner said. "I knew It was coming and was not surprised when officers found me." "I suppose that I shall go to Jail for the rest of my life. The way I feel now, I don't know whether I shall even hire a lawyer when I get to Denver." |