| Show secret bechet life of kreuger exposed worlds greatest swindler lived as gay libertine ne new york while e big chicago and new ew york banks ar are e trying to recover m millions illi ons of dollars they lost backing ivar kreuger swedish financial viz ard and the worlds greatest swindler facts have come to light revealing hla his private life in new york paris and elsewhere as that ot of a libertine who lived secretly in gaiety gayety gaye t as pe he lived openly ns as a hardheaded hard headed financial genius it has been found that tie lie had the staggering sum suin of in personal a nill debt and indirect liability a against his name when he committed suicide in paris in march it has been discovered that hla his books were falsified for eight years while ho he was tra traveling v cling around tho the financial centers of the he world raising enormous sums from the most astute bankers there will be little or nothing tor for ansec unsecured u red creditors and scores of millions handled by him appear now to bo be irretrievably lost once a demigod to a hero bero wor ship shipping ping world the silent dominating financier has been proved to possess all the frailties of pleas ure loving mortals the illusion that he lived only to work which lie be cultivated so that lie ho might juggle millions by forgery and bargaining has been exploded in an astounding expose of hla his bluff always the millions he ha was able to display enabled kreuger to purchase the secrecy of the woman who visited his secret hideaways and yet in the tha years during which brouger flitted flirted from country to country t ry from continent to continent not one of his women companions during ids hla lifetime gave t tho to least leas if public hint of associations that seldom acquired tho the dignity of true companionship out of the dust and confusion of th the e trash crash that followed Kru egera egers suicide cid e a picture of the man has e emerged m arged each day the outline grows bolder more details are filled in the spectral figures loom against a variety of amazing background kreuger on a little island off sweden for weeks at a time surrounded by gay women sparkling champagne soft lights seductive music kreuger kreuder in a new york penthouse or tn in ills his carls mansion with hla his women his wine and his princely luxury A scornfully smiling kreuger making rubber stamps of the signatures of the influential men of sweden so that he might forgo forge their names to applications for security issues A calculating kreuger with plate and acid turning out bogus issues of italian government bonds to defraud the trusting swedish government or the trusting security buyers of the united states directly after his death reports of trickery were broadcast to tho the world ono one was that the swedish consul in paris had refused to certify the tha death that a wax figure and not kreuger was cremated that orders were still coming from sumatra for cigars such as only kreuger smoked intimates of the swedish croesus now recall that they did consider it strange that after a day of conference of hard work kreuger invariably vanished and never a word of how he spent his evening wits was forthcoming nut but they never asked for explanations explanation they knew the man of stone too well but it to Is concerning the evenings of his life after his juggling of finances fint inces was temporarily ended when he retired to meet tills this or that beautiful woman that the real facts are ara just now coming to the surface one of 0 the swedish investigators of Kreuger a business and private conduct has said we are going from one surprise se to another the more definite our investigations 12 become the stranger the personality of kreuger grows we all knew him personally but we are only discovering him now the investigators have learned that there were many parties with women and wine on the little swedish is island land that kreuger owned not wild parties pa artles there was nothing of the about kreuger the women were cultured and refined ned in his park avenue penthouse in new york and in his paris mansion kreuger gave similar parties quiet informal affairs never orgies nut but refined outwardly as the match kings women friends appeared to be the swedish police have found in his effects evidence that many of them stooped to blackmail they even found evidence that on many occasions kreuger had met their demands |
