How a millionaire bonanza farmer was swindled out of $25,000, then died on the Titanic
MINNEAPOLIS — The beaker was, to them, filled with truth serum. It was the night of Oct. 13, 1909, at the Pauly House, a Minneapolis hotel. Herbert F. Chaffee, a wealthy bonanza farmer from Amenia, North Dakota, and his son Eben bent over…