Word: bilked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Federal prosecutors took action. Charging use of the mails to bilk wealthy Dr. Pitzman, they brought Mrs. Muench, her husband, Lawyer Wilfred Jones and a woman friend named Mrs. Helen Berroyer to trial. Convicted, tear-choked Mrs. Muench last week stood up before stern-faced Judge George H. Moore in St. Louis' U. S. District Court and brought her hoax story to a dramatic end. Sobbed...
Evidence, all of it circumstantial, continued to point last week to His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies James Henry Thomas as the source of the Budget leak which enabled sure-thing gamblers to bilk British insurance firms of over half a million dollars (TIME, May 25). On the evening that lean, bespectacled Mr. Justice Porter & associates wound up their investigation of this breach of Cabinet confidence, Cockney Jim Thomas, onetime locomotive wiper who became the friend of kings, sat down and wrote as follows...
Last week a racket of incredible proportions came to light in Chicago, where slickers used to bilk hayseeds by promising to let them see the Masonic Temple revolve on its invisible axis. Scene was the U. S. District Court, Judge Philip L. Sullivan presiding. Cast consisted principally of 41 defendants on trial for using the mails to swindle an estimated $1,350,000 from some 70,000 Midwesterners. The fantastic fraud on view was based on the assumption that Sir Francis Drake had left a huge and as yet undivided fortune. Some 27 billion dollars would be split as soon...
...years." Last year he had received an insurance dividend check for $1,524.51, payable to Mrs. Will Rogers, beneficiary. He had forged Mrs. Rogers' signature, pocketed the money. Accountants, delving into his records, concluded that over a period of seven years he had used equally simple methods to bilk W. C. Fields, Mrs. James J. Walker (Betty Compton), Vivienne Segal and others of $300.000, relying on his careless clients not to notice. Next day in court Prisoner Kemp dazedly set the figure at about $50,000, mumbled: "I'm sorry to have caused Mrs. Rogers any trouble...
...painter of The Angelus and Man With Hoe? So fond was Grandson Jean Charles that last week he was ignominiously thrust into a jail in Melun. For his fondness sprang from the fact that he had been able to use his grandfather's illustrious name in a scheme to bilk the public...