Show A CUTE FDfASGIER A Woman Who Swindled Even Swinlled en Her Husband New York May 11The Press tomorrow to-morrow will say Mrs Kate Brandford wife of Charles Brandford a retired furniture dealer has disappeared from I her home in Williamsburg She has been missing since Wednesday night With the news nf hp r riT o vi o cetlilUUc comes the announcement that she had I been engaged in an alleged swindling operation involving about operaton 200000 The I operations it is said have extended over a period of eight years Because of threats made by a creditor and fearing fear-ing exposure it is thought she has committed com-mitted suicide Mrs Brandford is said to have left several letters in one of which she is alleged to have admitted herself her guilt and said she proposed killing A number Qt wealthy men are said to have been ensnared by it I is also said that even her husband was vic timized out of 8000 He believed as others did that his wife was engaged in a series of legitimate speculations which returned large interest on her money To those to whom she applied for money she represented that she could loan money to public school teachers at exorbitant rates of interest and be secured se-cured by receiving from the teachers an assignment of their pay checks in advance of their being issued She based bas-ed her swindling operations on this but as far as can be learned no teachers had any dealings with her |