NOTE: The term “Alimony Annie” was used during World War II and afterwards to describe the women who practiced this particular scam.
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FULL TEXT: Sacramento, Cal. May 10 – Mrs. Vilma Suberly, 26-year-old blonde, undivorced wife of eight servicemen, today was under sentence to two years in a federal penitentiary after Federal Judge Martin I. Welsh ruled she was not entitled to probation after her guilty plea of using the mails to defraud.
Mrs. Suberly pleaded guilty to charges of collecting allotment checks from four husbands in the armed services. Following her arrest in Eugene, Ore., she had denied making fraudulent collections. She asked for probation to permit her to return to Oregon and care for her mother.
Welsh said he was denying the request on the basis of her record.
[“Wife of 8 Men Given Sentence,” syndicated (UP), The Bend Bulletin (Or.), May 10, 1945, p. 5; syndicated photo from another source]
