SWINDLER OF RICH WIDOWS ARRESTED; Charles Hecking, Who Has a Record as a Fraud, Captured in Newark.

March 1, 1895

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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 28. -- Charles Hecking, aged sixty-two, a German, was arrested here to-night by means of a decoy letter sent by Detective Jaegers to 1,227 Broadway in answer to an advertisement in a New-York paper. He lives at 350 Springfield Avenue, and is accused by Mrs. Annie Gebhard of 147 Orchard Street with swindling her out of $1,100. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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