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Show PAROLED PRISONER SWINDLES BRIDE Oakland, July 17. "Sir" Harry Westwood Cooper, the swindler who whilo on parole from the Btnte penitentiary peni-tentiary eloped five months ago with Anna Milbrath, an Oakland nurse, has been discovered in Durbln, Natal province, South Africa, according to advices recehed here today 'by Police Po-lice Chief Peterson. The Natal authorities au-thorities are said to be close on his trail to hold him for defrauding a Durbin bank out of one thousand pounds. Cooper, who also operated under the name of Ernest Moore Ohadwick, had not been long on parole in Oakland before he won the affections of Miss Milbrath while posing as a "Dr. Abrahams," Abra-hams," a nerve specialist His identity iden-tity was not discovered until after his departure on his honeymoon with $2,-500 $2,-500 which he had induced his father-in-law to lend him. On discovering thut Cooper had a wife living. Miss Milbrath left him in Chicago, where she now is employed. Tho method by which Cooper worked work-ed his swindles was to ingratiate himself into the family by paying court to a daughter. |