Weekly journal-miner., 1917-03-14
CHADWICK CASE IS DUPLICATED
 IN BERLIN
ALLURING WIDOW WITH LARGE NERVE CAPITAL AND AN ATTRACTIVE DAUGHTER GATHERS IN MANY GULLIBLES.
Associated Press Correspondence.

has its Cassie Chadwick, its Mime. Humbcrt case. The latest rival to these women of international notori- cty is Frau Meta Kupfcr. an attractive widow of 4l. With capital consist ing of plenty of nerve, an attractive daughter, plenty of good looks her self, lavish hospitality in these lean war times, and an unduly keen in- sight into the gullibility and selfish ness of mankind, she had harvested just under three millions of marks up to the time of her arrest and con- fession.
 Her plan of procedure was the old, old one-based on "520 Percent Mil Ter" She has been paying l2 per cent month interest on money invest cd with her And each solitary in vestor has put in his or her money in the belief that it was going into a wholesale food business, and with the knowledge that the enormous profits must come from illegal methods and at the expense of an overcharged public.
 Therefore, Germany, finally awake to the swindle, is inclined to have more sympathy witlf Frau Kupfer, now languishing in jail, than in her Investors" whose names have not yet been made public, but who are said 10 include wealthy though greedy capitalists. men with well known names, officers among them, all of whom arc doing their best 10 keep out of the liinelight
 Frau Kupfer began her operations on a modest and apparently a legiti- mate scale when, year and a half ago, she moved to Berlin and began to trade in the then almost unrestrict- cd foodstuffs. But the money did not come in nearly as fast as the oppor- tunities to get money from investors who wanted to make big profits quickly, regardless at whose expense they might come.
 So Frau Kupfer began to forge a few bills of lading and the few neces- sary official looking seals and stamps, opened a more pretentious office, launched the business" in her daugh- tcr's namc-sincc she was on the court records as a bankrupt and therefore not entitled to conduct business of her own-and sat down to wait for the money.
 She represented to the would-bc in- vcstors that her storage warehouses for food were in city some 100 miles from Berlin. and so charmingly did she reoitc the story, that no one thought to verify the matter until re- gently an investigator revealed the whole swindle
 As the money poured in Frau Kup- fer had to increase the number of her bank accounts, until she had six large banks gladly accepting her deposits. Gradually her own ways of life changed. She rented a pretty though modest apartment in the west end of Berlin, where she entertained the moro favored of the investors. The daughter came in handy, too, for her very great beauty acted as quietus on all embarrassing questions, all un- comfortable requests for details.
 Somehow, Frau Kupfcr managed to get not considerable portion of the food which was supposed to make up her business, for she nightly gave banquets at which nothing was lack ing. The. rest of Berlin might sigh for butter or stand in line for pota- toes, but she always had plenty and more.
 The entertainments were never so noisy or populous as to enrage the ncighborhood. but they were long drawn out affairs that often lasted until 6 in the morning. Yet Frau kup- fer always was at her office by 9 fresh and ready for anything, whether it be new investments, demands for the re- turn of old ones, or the payment of the monthly interest" She kept no books, but slowed away in her head all her financial transactions, with the exception of receipts for payments. These have revealed the identity of her financial supports.
 The eventual arrival of the police found her with her daughter and ono man, an invcStor-admirer On the heels of the police came creditors who wanted their money back With a sang froid and nerve worthy of better cause she made an appointment with the creditors for the same after noon at Bcrlin's largest bank, then turned and walked out with the plain