The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-01-24
LOSES HEIRESS
AND MONEY TOO
Frank Cerutti Agrees to
Board Young Lady
But Doesn't.
FOR SHE COMES NOT
Barnum's Saying One Sucker
y Is Born Every Minute Is
True, Too True.
FOR SHE COMES NOT

Frank Cerutti, Ali Pearl street,
came within an inch of having an
heiress within his home and $l0,OOO
too. but he lost the opportunity to-
oether with $1,000 of his own, and
now he is looking for Peter" TINS
morning he asked Lieutenant Charles
Rock of the police detective squad to
help him find Peter and his own mon
ey. This is the story as he told II:
On January 8, 1924, stranger came
to Frank Cerutti and asked If he could
secure board for a young ward OF ms.
Pete" was the strangers name; his
last name Frank does not know or
cannot remember.
Pete said he would pay $65 month
for board and room for the young
lady. and that if Frank were satisfied
with that pay, and the girl were treat
cd nicely, the arrangement would be
an indefinite one, perhaps of years
duration.
The girl was now fifteen years old,
and thel sum of $4,000 is coming to
her when she is eighteen years of age,
Pete said. Frank Cerutti was willing
to take the young girl into his home
agreed upon.
Pete Likes Frank Very Much.
When these preliminary arrange
ments had been concluded, Pete had
another thought. He found that he
liked Frank Cerutti and moreover
trusted him. This was the very place
he had been anxious to find, and Frank
was the very honest and trustworthy
soul that he had been looking for for
some time. He thought so and did
not hesitate to give warm and unmis-
taxable evidence of his feelings.
Pete asked Frank as d further evil
dence of his confidence and as part
of the bargain, if he would not take
the $4,000 in trust for his ward for
three years. When the girl was
eighteen, he, Frank, would have to re-
turn the money, but in the meantime
lie could be having the use of it.
Goes to Bank for Money.
The money, Pete showed him, was
all in greenbacks in a stout black tin
box. There was no doubt at all but
that the money was there. The bar
gain was an interesting one, and feel
ing that he could >have the pleasure
Of handling that money for some time,
Frank agreed. There was nothing, as
he figured it to lose.
Pete was more touched than before.
He pressed his new friends hand and
the tears welled to his eyes. He was
sure that Frank Cerutti was "regu-
lar fellow" a true-blue reliable gem
tleman.
There was only one little thing that
remained that had to be complied
with. In justice to his ward, the young
lady, Peter said, he himself had to
have some security that the money
would be returned. He would have
to have some money from Frank
Cerutti. Frank looked up his bank
account and found that he had only
81 ,129 in the bank. Pete told him that
that would suffi0&. He agreed to re-
turn for the momey which he wanted
in cash.
Frank Gets All the Money.
Frank withdrew the money from the
bank and on January 10, Pete again
came to his house, Pete took the
money Frank handed him, $1,129 in
all, opened the black tin box and laid
Franks money on top of the $4,000
He. closed the box, locked it, and de-
posted the tin box in his suitcase.
Frank protested against this. He
was not so dull of wit but that he
realized that all of the money, 'Ae
$4,000 and his own, would be in the
possession of Pete and he himself
would have nothing to show.
Pete saw the force of this argument,
and opening his suitcase, he took our
the black box, and with magnificent
gesture laid it upon Frank Cerutti's
table. He said he was satisfied with
Franks honesty and was content that
Frank should keep the box with the
money, while Peter retained the key.
This being understood they shook
hands and parted. Peter said he
would return the next day with the
young lady,
Something Goes Wrong Alas!
But the next day Peter did not come
7ack The next day he didn't come
,ither. Frank Cerutti became a little
.neasy. He shook the black tin box
nd could hear the crisp rattle of the
)aper money inside. On the four
zenith he received telegram from
Peter"
1t read Dear friend, MI Louis
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