NOTORIOUS MALINGERER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13150, 9 August 1913, Page 3

NOTORIOUS MALINGERER.

PERPETRATOR OF MANY FRAUD.S. TWENTY YEARS' HARD LABOR V . 'Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received August 9, 8.5 a.m.) , '■■'" PARIS, August 8. v j. A German named „■ Hermann," alias Kra:iss, has been sentenced to twenty' years' imprisonment for arson committed at Nancy to secure the insurance mon-sy. He perpatrated many frauds m Europe' and America. Ho deserted his wifo at Munich, and fled- to England, whore he was married m, thfe guise of a Radian prince. H-a. the woman's fortune. He practised as a doctor m the United States, and there mariLd a woman .■whose dowry he scattired. (Sydney Sun Special.— Received 8.30 a.m.)* '■ PARIS, August S. • i '-T-h\ famous, malingerer Krauss, whose fainting fits puzzled the prison doctors of Eiirono . and America, has been sentenced at Nancy to twenty years' hard latc-r. fcr arsons '■'.'■ — ■ — - — ■ *- {