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...Maude Ault and her son, Robert Eugene, who had been running a gas station near Decatur, Ill., visited Mrs. Ault's brother, Lorenson K. Bandy, in River Forest (Chicago suburb) and told him about a certain Max Orendorff, who: 1) had been one of their farmer acquaintances; 2) had turned bootlegger; 3) had made a fortune in the days when Capone flourished; 4) had been sent to Atlanta. If the Aults could help him get out of prison, said Mrs. Ault, Max Orendorff had promised to make it well worth their while...
Lorenson Bandy, an electrical engineer, agreed to help. He financed several trips costing from $175 to $600, which Son Robert took to get their wealthy friend, Orendorff, freed. Then came the exciting word that he had been released. Then came word that he had died, leaving loyal Maude Ault and her son all his holdings in Illinois and Texas real estate, oil lands worth from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000. To help the Aults collect their vast inheritance, Mr. Bandy put up more money. A Chicago business man named Newton F. Grey, said the Government, invested...
Dragged to Danville to testify, Banker Aldrich spent seven minutes on the stand denying that he knew either Maude Ault or Robert Alt, that he had ever seen Max Orendorff. At the end of the first day of trial, it appeared that no mortal man had ever seen Max Orendorff. Robert Alt and his mother, weeping on his arm, changed their plea to guilty and were sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $3,000 each...
...GERTRUDE ORENDORFF Minneapolis, Minn...
Eight or more persons were killed and two hundred people thrown out of employment by the explosion of the boiler of Harlin & Orendorff's agricultural implement works at Canton, Ill., on Saturday...
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