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RUBBER STAMPS

MANUFACTURERS

is Suave businessmen, sophisticated in the ways of

finance, have conned respectable companies out of

millions of dollars. Smooth as glass con men have

rpetrated swindles that would make you wince. It

is not often that just plain folks pull of? the big con.

» Ernest and Margaret Medders were about as plain
» as Vanilla ice cream on a Sunday afternoun.

spending all of his 51 years in Memphis,

Tenn., the best we can say of Ernie {s that he was of

average height, average welght, and average looks. -
role didn't Sead fowd. Ir

Let’s face it, E out in a crowd. In

~- 1961 he was managing to keep bread on the table b:

; .the sweat of his brow as a mechanic’s helper at Guft

. Oil. His remuneration from Gulf was the munificent
sum of $200 per month, Sometimes Ernie peddled
vegetables to make ends meet. i

largaret didn’t have a lazy bone in her body.

Besides having her hands full foo! after her ten
children, she worked as'a practical nurse at St.

, Joseph's Hospital in Memphis. The Medders exist-
ed without the finer things in life in a low rental
housing project.._'

. . Margaret and Ernie were honest hard working
folks. You can be the judge as to whether they were

_ cunning con artists or not.

: their relatives were among the
plaintiffs.
Are you sitting down for. this one? They were
seeking a cool five hundred million dollars.
To give the Medders the benefit of the doubt, it is
rtant to understand the great effect the news

illogical step to the next. He firmly
plaintiffs would win the case. It was only a ip
andijump for his mind to rationalize the facts so
= tha¢‘he ‘ame convinced he would be the sole
laintiff to collect. He had no trouble at all convinc-
fag aret that they practically had five hundred

ion big ones in their ttle paws.

Margaret couldn’t contain herself. She told ev-
‘‘eryone down at St. Joseph’s how very fortunate
they had been and how very rich they were about to

me. -- :
It took no time at all for the good Roman Catholic |

=“ nuns who ran St. Joseph’s to hear of the blessing
. which had befallen a member of their flock. The
nuns, whose order was officially, if inappropriately,

~» named The Poor Sisters of St. Francis ofthe
ve been just that at

but in 1961 they were

|, interior decorating, and landscaping set them
ack about a quarter of a million dollars.
Ernie. dis

nals. Bits anc. pieces of Jewellery usi

,000 a month of the Poor Sisters’ cash.

Mrs. Medders had a natural flair for spending
money. She built her own hai ssing salon in her
home just for the fun of it. Margaret's daughters
were attending an exclusive finis! school in
Dallas. Margaret, couldn't stand the thought of

them living in a drafty dormitory. She bought the
girls a $40,000 home beside the school.

Then there were the parties. Ernie and Margaret
knew how to throw a party. Once they had a
thousand guests down to the farm, which was now
complete with a huge cattle auction arena. Buses
transporting the party, goers to the farm were

gquipped ith well stocked bars. Charter planes
delivered

Alfonso Apa Tailoring &

1364 Bay Avenue — TRAIL

the Medders like a lift on the sidential jet.
Would they? Wild horses couldn’t have kept them
away! Next day the Medders flew home on Air

ers.

real money at his
cattle operation. They could still come up cove
with roses if only they could curtail their

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sible extravagances. It was too late. They “had .
become accustomed to wealth. The parties contin-
ued. x .
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Ernie invited 1,200 kids to his ranch for.a horse
show. He also threw a huge party for Jeanne Dixon,
the Washington clairvoyant. Now that the Poor
Sisters had cut them off, the Medders simply
borrowed ‘from banks until they too refused to
d them another penny. Margaret still man-

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others from distant points. Guy Lombar-
do and his Royal C: Pp the
entertainment. ;

ed to decorate her person with a $70,000 necklace,
$50,000 ring, and a mink coat valued at $55,000.

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Despite his limited knowledge of ranching, Erni
found that after a few years his cattle raising
venture was turning a profit of over a $100,000 a"
year. This was just a drop in the bucket compared
to the fantastic amounts required to main! the
Medders’ lifestyle. Most of the tab for all the fun
and games was still being picked up by the Poor assets were stripped der to make
Sisters. e partial payments to their creditors. It is estimated

the Poor Sisters are + rer by $2 million, Other
creditors totalled a er million.

loaded. They just ach find a way to hel

Margaret over the short period of time she had le!
: r. Besides, you never know how (Eetehl
= dear Margaret and Ernest would be to the holy
order after they collected the pot of gold at the end _
of the rainbow.
ana ‘The Poor Sisters commenced to loan the Medders
. = = money. At first just a trickle of a few thousand, but
CROSSROADS PRINTING once they got into the s' of things, the amounts
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In ing with

FF . eep!
_ Medders moved to Through contributin,

y = : : Kk thelr personals rela lonship with Connally, they

ay atten a ball in Houston FP
Sollee Furnes. Lyndon Johnson. Believe it or not, et
and Ernie were invited to attend a reception at the
White House the following week.

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