| Show DID GOOD WITH STOLEN MONEY proceeds of swindles G ven over ta helpless ch idren guatave gustave roselli was vas the greatest swindler italy has ever known though his many crimes were perpetrated purely in the interests ot of children childrens s charities he was a cripple and from his earliest days displaced ed unwonted interest in those of tender age simi barly afflicted when only 23 he set in motion a scheme of fraud on a gi gantic scale which relieved the weal thy of thousands in fifteen years with the proceeds of his crime be he founded and endowed a cripples home in rome cleared off the debts of three children a hospitals and ansti buted homes tor for waifs in many blany 0 of the principal italian cities though be he lived in a dilapidated cottage and al most denied himself the bare necesse ties of life when eventually the hub bub ble burst he was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment but so popular had he become with the masses that frantic crowds cheered him as he was led from the courts after fifteen years spent in a dungeon he was pardoned |
