STRANGE STORY TOLD IN DOCK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17781, 26 February 1926, Page 6

STRANGE STORY TOLD IN DOCK.

MAN WITH HUNDRED NAMES CONFESSES. By Telegraph.—Pre am Assn.—Copyright* A«s. and .N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 26, 9.15 a.m) PARIS, February 25. Known as the man with a hundred names and faces, owing to his skill at disguises, and the manufacturing of identity papers, George Delormel revealed his secret before the Magistrate. Pie said he was Ulvsse Rue!, and was born at Valence in 1885. He married in England. His wife committed suicide with a revolver in a street in 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 f6r five 3-ears-. While serving in the war. he was suspected of having tried to desert, and was imprisoned. lie escaped, for though innocent, he knew he would be sentenced to death. Pie did not know the result of the court martial. Since then he had lived under false names, and had committed many thefts. ‘T am not going to make a full confession,” said Delormel, ‘‘but if you have any definite charges I will confess them.” / The Magistrate told the prisoner that as the result of the court martial he had been sentenced to death. Inquiries showed that he was the son of a pastrycook. Pie was a brilliant schoolbo.v. The police are convinced that he is a member of a famous gang.