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$4,000
CON 7 RA(;T'
Will Film Life Story for Public.
Jumped From 81 Clerk to Mil
Iionaire Over Night.

The story of a seven-dollar-a-
week clerk in a, brokerage Office in
INepx York, who became Vailed
and broken millionaire inside Of
four years, is the plot Of a movie
that Wilen w. Easterday, erst-
while Washington broker, is to
star in.
VIII Sign Contract I'm Jail.
Easterday. who now is in the Dis.
trict Jail awaiting new trial in
connection with his conviction of
charges of having conspired with
Nicky Arnstein and others In the
theft Of $5,0O0,000 worth of negotia.
BILE securities from Wall Street bank.
ers, expects to sign the movie con.
tract this afternoon.
| with the signing Of the contract
to pose for the movies, giving my
life story, I am to receive $4,000"
said Easterday at the Jail this morn
ing. IT also will receive royalties
for the showing of the picture in
foreign countries"
Easterday expects to be released
on bonds from the Jail In a few
days. After consulting his lawyers
regarding his threatened suit for
81 900, 900 against Florenz Ziegfeld,
night Frolic." whom he claims
u enated his wife's affections, Easter
day expects to go Immediately to
Los Angeles, where he will be filmed.
To Film His Real Life.
The film will show how thieves
stole and negotiated more than
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from New York bank clerks and
messengers, as well as Easterday's 8
| infatuation for, and experiences with
a show girl, Gloria Foy, of the
| Midnight Frolic," whom he married
after his first wife obtained a divorce
| from him.
There will be portrayal Of Easter
days night life after he became q
millionaire, of the two homes he
kept-one in fashionable Long Island
and the other on Riverside drive in
New York. The picture will conclude
with Easterday's fight for liberty
while confined behind cell doors in
the District Jail and his final free
dom and reconciliation with his show
girl wife-the wife he had urged not
to return to the stage, but help him
recoup the fortune he claims t. have
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false friends.
Tells Story for First Time.
For the first time since his arrc st
and conviction of being connected
with the theft Of bonds from Wall
Street clerks and bank messengers,
Easterday this morning told of his
life-of having started poor and of
having made a fortune III a few
IIa daniaa having haH anr
dealings in the Wall tSrect thefts,
consumated.
Easterday was born in Washing.
| ton. As O youth he studied for the
Naval Academy at the Army and
Navy Preparatory School. Iie re.
ceived an appointment to the acad-
emy, but refused, his alternate.
Charles Wentworth, of Boston. get
ting the appointment.
Started as Brokers' Clerk.
II intended To go to Yale" said
Easterday, but instead finally went
with my father, who ran q chain IT
candy shops in Pittsburgh. My
fathers business failed and then I
went to New York, my ambition
being to become a successful broker.
Reaching New York with scarcely
| any clothes, / got a job at - a week
brokers. I went through the busi.
ness in a year. and at the md of u
short time l was representing the
firm on the curb in New York.
Walter johnson, general manager,
| wanted me to 60 on the Stock Ex.
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