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Anthony Blum: The Man Who Conned a Priest
Have you heard the one about how Anthony Blum's deathbed confession kept him out of jail? It happened more than a century ago. In 1910, Blum was on trial in Connecticut, accused of bilking Father Arthur DeBruycker of $5,000 in a scheme involving a fake mining claim in Gleeson, Arizona Territory.
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