Show UT rt Womans Woman's enan s Dream learn Of Wealth Fades At Prison Gates Telephone Operator s. s Speculative Scheme With Funds of i Others ther but bu Link De 1 r I NEW YORK June 25 The AP-The The AP dream of a young woman woman who thought wealth and social press pres Uge tige could be obtained by financial vas vas shattered by the clang of prison gates Mrs Grace year old telephone was sentenced to tr from m two and one halt to five years ears at Auburn prison on her plea of guilty to a gigantic stock swin- swin dle Her husband Charles 26 whose innocence she had pr protested tested but who pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property receIved two to four years ears In Sing ng Sing Mrs Bange was employed by the New York Telephone company where In 1922 she evolved herr her scheme First she convinced friends that she could buy stock below its market value as an and many of them turned money over overto overto to her for tor investment Her husband husband hus- hus band also Interested his friends one of his employers at the Standard Oil company giving him l hs Bange confessed that her herop op operations totaled more than a quartet quarter of u a million dollars while other accounts uncovered by the police pollee raised this total She Shene never purchased or delivered the stock but speculated In the hopes of large profits and paid divIdends to old customers from the contributions of new victims |