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Show IMPERSONATING DEAD MAN 1 GAINS SWINDLER $10,000 NEW TORK, May 3. By representing , himself as CoL John D. Hewitt, presl-; presl-; dent of the Buckeye Coke and Coal company com-pany of BramwelL W. Va director of the bank of BramwelL a swindler has been operating In New York for two . months, having drafts on CoL Hewitt's bank cashed and passed by that institution insti-tution through New York bankers. CoL Hewitt died more than six months ago. The papers whereby the Impostor was able to open an account for $10,000 with a large stock exchange house, negotiate for the purchase of a $50,000 residence In Brooklyn, live In a first-class hotel and enjoy himself generally, were stolen by the man from Col. Hewitt in Atlantic City, where the West Virginian was en-deavoring en-deavoring to recover his health. |