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Show HARRY COOPER XN SOXJTH AFRICA Oakland, Cal., July IS. "Sir" Harry Wostwood Cooper, the swindler who, while on parole from the state penitentiary, peni-tentiary, eloped five months ago with Anna Mllbrath, an Oakland nurse, has been discovered in Durbin. Natal province, pro-vince, South Africa, according to advices ad-vices received here yesterday by Police Po-lice Chief Peterson. The Natal authorities au-thorities are said to bo close on his trail to hold him for defrauding a Durbin Dur-bin bank out of ono thousand pounds sterling. Cooper, who also operated under the name of Ernest Moore Chadwick, had not been long on parole in Oakland hofore ho won the affections of Mlsb Milbrath while posing as a "Dr. Ara-rahams," Ara-rahams," a nerve specialist. His iden- tlty was not discovered until after his departure on his honemoon with $2,-500 $2,-500 which ho had induced his fathor-in-law to lend him. On discovering that Cooper had a wife living. Miss Milbrath left him in Chicago, where she now is employed. The method by which Cooper worked work-ed his swindles was to ingratiate himself him-self into the family by paying court to a daughter. |