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NEBRASKA BANK FUGITIVE FOUND Gives Self Up After Arrest As Bigamist. PHILADELPHIA (AP) Paul Wupper. also known as Freder ick Brinkman, facing bigamy charges in the municipal court Wednesday startled court officials by identifying himself as the former president and embezzler $1,000,000 from the Beemer bank. state institution of BeemWupper was held for extradition after police had identified him as the fugutive for whom $3 150 reward was offered after the closing of the bank in 1928. Police said upper told them he fled to New York when bank examiners visited the Nebraska institution in 1928 because he had taken so much money and the bank held quantity of assets that could not be liquidated. Hid in New Jersey. He told of then going to TrenN. where became su perintendent of an electric company His bigamous marriage, he said was contracted here last year when he was by Police Magistrate John P. Grelis He said he left his second wife when he lost his position. Felt He'd Be Caught. Wupper told the authorities he had got tired of being hunted "I felt that or later would be caught he was quoted by police as saying and thought this was good time to make clean breast of things and case my 'I had been president of the First Wife at Beemer. His first wife police stated is finance Caroline Windshum Wupper, who Tr lives in Beemer with their two daughters. After Wupper's confession. the authorities communicated with M. L. Endres sheriff of Lincoln Neb., who wired back. Further identification of the was found in in the rogue's gallery Police said wered the description of fugitive 52. tall and slender who speaks German fluently Shares Shares