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Show . OlO GOOD WITH STOLEN MONEY "recaeda of Swlndlea Given Over ta Helpless Children. Gusisve Itoselll was the greatest swindler Italy has ever known, though Ids many crUnes were perpetrated pvely In the Interests of children's rtarltice. He wan a cripple, and from hk earliest days displayed unwonted Interest In those of tender age elmt-Isrlv elmt-Isrlv afftlcted When only 1.1 he aet In motion a scheme of fraud on a gl-raiilr gl-raiilr seals' which relieved the weal thy of thoussnds In fifteen years. ' With the psoceeda of his crime he foended aud endowed a cripples' home lu Home, cleared oft the debts of three children's hospitals, and Inatl- tMted homes for waifs In many of His principal Italian cities, though ba Vi?id In a dilapidated .cottage and -almost denied hlmsolf the bare nccenxl-tl) nccenxl-tl) of life. When eventually the hub-hit hub-hit buret b waa sentenced to lifelong Imtrlennment,- but ao popular had he hetome with the masses that frantic crowds cheered him as be waa led from the courts. After flttoen years sptat la a dungeon ho wan pardoned. |