CAREER OF CRIME

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 February 1926, Page 5

CAREER OF CRIME

MAN WITH HUNDRED NAMES.

PARTIAL CONFESSION IN COURT. BELIEVED TO BE ONE OF A GANG. BV CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT.

Received Feb. 26, 10.30 a.m. PARIS, Feb. 25. Known as “the mail with a hundred names and faces,” owing to iiis skill at disguises and manufacturing identity papers, George Delorme] revealed a secret before the Magistrate. He said he was Ulysse Ruel. Born in Valencia in 1885,. he married in England. His wife committed suicide with a revolver in a street of Versailles in 1911.

He was condemned at Algiers in 1912 for forgery and embezzlement. He married again in 1915, but had not seen his wife for five years. While serving in the war, he was suspected of having tried to desert and was imprisoned. He escaped, for, though innocent, he knew he would be sentenced to death. He did not know the result of the court-martial. Since then he had lived under false names and had committed many thefts. “I am not ti’ying to make a full confession,” said Delormel, “but if you have any definite charges I will confess them.”

The Magistrate told prisoner that as a result of the court-martial he had been sentenced to death.

'lnqluiriens show that he wps> thie son of a pastrycook and a brilliant schoolboy. The police are convinced that he is a member Of a famous gang.