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Show opened. A pallid, thin, elderly man appeared in a nightshirt and bare feet "You'll have to come he said. "I'm sick." They followed him to a room on the second floor. As he crawled into bed, he motioned them to . chairs. "What did you want?" Schultz explained their mission. "I've got the stock, all right," the farmer said, reaching under his pillow and bringing out some aged, certificates. "My father left them to me; it was all he had besides this farm. He made me promise I wouldn't sell 'em for less than $50,000 and I won't." . As he talked, the farmer coughed frequently. He reached for a bottle arid took some black liquid, but it didn't seem to help much. Schultz decided the farmer was on the point of death. "Ill give you $50,000," he said. "Cash?" "Yeah, cash." The farmer agreed and the money was paid. He had to pause Several times as he scrawled his signature while the cough racked his body. Schultz took the signed certificates back to the car. Let's get out of here," he said to Lynch, "before that old guy dies." They drove back to New York, where Schultz inquired about the next move. "Now we get some bids on the stock," Lynch said. "Ill take care of that." He wrote some telegrams and one of the gangster's flunkies sent them off. answers came fast New York's largest investment bankers made bids on the stock. The largest, for $550,000, came late in the afternoon. Jubilant, Schultz said: "111 sell first thing in the morning. Come back and you'll get your share," The, man calling himself Merrill Lynch but known in criminal circles as the Indiana Kid, ' one of the country's slickest con men left and didn't return. It took Dutch Schultz only a few hours the next day to discover that the messages were as phony as the stock certificates and the dying farmer. Schultz had been taken in one of the hoariest of stock swindles. The gang boss was furious. He sent out word that he wanted the con man found. .It took several weeks, but finally the Indiana Kid was located. Four The , armed men took him for a typical gangland ride. He thought it, would be a one-wride, but his him. captors didn't kill They took him to a hideout where the irate Schultz waited with an ultimatum: return the $50,000 if he wanted to live. The con man protested that the money had been spent. Schultz left and his henchmen began giving the con man the "hot foot." Finally, after hours of torture, he admitted that he had a safe deposit box in a Manhattan bank. Posing as friends, the thugs accompanied him to the bank and forced him to open the box. One spotted the greenbacks and grabbed them, counting out a total of $60,000, which he pocketed. "I was only supposed to pay back $50,000". the con man protested. x "The extra 10 grand is for our trouble," the gangster snarled. ; The Indiana Kid was released and took the next boat for Cuba. He stayed there and didn't return to the United States until after Schultz was killed. He didn't want to be anywhere within reach when the gang chief discovered that the money in the safe x deposit box was counterfeit! ay THE r4 (UJ F Sheaffer's SKRIP Ballpoint Fluid is today's big difference in ballpoints! SKRIP writes a firmer, g line without skipping! Starts fuller, writing the instant you touch it to paper! And Sheaffer's exclusive Sterling'Silver tip keeps the ball rolling; won't clog or corrode! For smoother, more dependable writing, get the only ballpoint that writes with SKRIP. ..Sheaffer's new Skripriter Ballpoint! freer-flowin- V it 0 SheafferS OJT .0 It's the new velvet flowing ballpoint fluid developed in the -- Sheaf ferlaboratories from the World-famoSKRIP writing fluid, successor to ink! BALLPOINT us 01959 W. A. SHEAFFER PEN COMPANY FORT MADISON, IOWA ... and worth every penny of itl Choose from six silvery colors in Sheaffer's exclusive anodized aluminum cases. Others from $1.95 to $15.00 |