Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-23 | Page 1 | $19,000 Goes to Swindlers in Old Game

GOES TO SWINDLERS IN OLD GA GAME E Lost Purse Easy Win Win- mugs Then Loss of Life Savings HOUSTON HOUSTO- Texas Jan By 22 22 ByTh The Associated Iress Press Pres Return ReturnIng Return hag Ing a lost purse to its owner cost Julius Archer 65 retired ladles ladies wear ready manufacturer er of Chicago He lie told police here hell today how the tho grateful owner and com corn companions companions fleeced him in a stock exchange dea delV January 10 Archer said aid a 0 man picked up a purse purs near him and his wife wit on the th beach at Corpus ChrIsti they w vere re spending the winter It d US and the names an and and address of the own own- owner owner er cc The Tho finder r that they take it to the owner I SWALLOWS BAIT BUT When we gave eav the purse purs to the man at the th hotel hots he h was greatly pleas pleas pleas-id d and offered us a arward reward Mr Archer told Captain Shelley We IVe refused a reward lIe He said h he vaa operating a small stock exchange ther there and he would place a small email sum on a certaIn Issue of stocks If It It turned out O profitably we could have the winnings a a reward My ly wife Ire and I laughed and forgot the matter The Th next day we w were in- in Informed In Informed formed that we w e bad ad 2000 2000 corn com coming corning corn In ing to us though th a phenomenal rIse In a certain ln stock stock- We l W could hardly sleep The next day the tho I I stock rose to S At this juncture the manager of the exchange appeared and said according to Mr Archer that he could not turn over such Buch uch an amount unless I could Put lut up or show credit for the tho gamble ramble since If I had lost 1 would nouli have been held for tor the tir amount originally III Invested ted YIELDS JEUS I I 1 brought th the wile wife wit to Hous Ilous- Houston Houston ton Ie left her In a n ho hotel holt 1 and went to Chicago I returned with all the cash I could up about I met t the tho manager of the tho exchange at Galveston gave him the th 19 1 00 and made an en- en engagement n to meet him at the th corn com company's pany's main offices which he h saId were In Tucson n Arizona We Ve W went vent to that city and were un- un Continued on Pace Pasc Sc en 1 GOES TO SWINDLERS Continued From Page One able to find rind them I notified the chIef of poll there II nd ho said i iCor for Cor u us to ruh back to Houston Houston- We e came hack buck to Houston louston and andI andI andI I Immediately r port d the theft to you ou Captain Shelley believes belle the tho headquarters of the Iho he gang Is In Denver Den Colo- Colo Colo Cob and ha has halt wired Ired re reports re- re report ports port of the theft there Mean lean Meantime Meantime time Mr and Mrs Mr Archer are aro remaining In Houston