Check out my latest article on Substack. It’s the story of a shoe store manager who left Hartford (and his wife and family) the day after Christmas, 1917 on a cross-country spending spree with a young woman using embezzled funds.

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An Embezzlement-funded Road Trip that Began at Hartford’s Union Station in 1917