Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PETER HODSON...
...couple of Houdinis!"' ejaculated Peter J. Haggerty, superintendent of a mint now proven pregnable...
Wanted for alleged misrepresentation of imported goods by the Cambridge police, "Peter Geer," a legitimate cloth salesman of good Cambridge family, was picked up in Claverly Hall for trespassing Friday afternoon by Colonel Charles Apted, Head of the University Police...
...activities of the confidence man first came to light when banks on Harvard Square complained when payment was stopped on a number of checks drawn to the order of a "Peter Geer." Presumably the drafts were stopped after students were told by their tailers that the "imported goods" were fraudulent and many times over-priced...
...photograph was secured when a suspicious student secretly snapped "Geer"? with a miniature camera on one of the con-man's visits to his room. Colonel Apted declared that Peter Geer was an alias, and that he recognized the man from the picture as the notorious brother of another "salesman" who was jailed several years...