1,000 THEFTS ADMITTED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19983, 28 October 1927, Page 8

1,000 THEFTS ADMITTED

“HOTEL RAT’ CAUGHT IN PARIS TOO MANY ALIASES. PARIS, Oct. 15. A small motor-car accident has leri to the arrest of Armand Louis Caulier, who is alleged to be one of the cleverest hotel thieves in the country. He was driving his own car when it colliided with another vehicle, and the police asked the customary questions of both drivers. They noticed, however, that the name given by Caulier was different from that on the papers he producer!, and it was discovered from finger-print records that he was Caulier, wanted among other things for a theft of jewels worth 250,000 francs from an hotel at Deauville. When he found how much the police already knew of him, ho confessed* with something like pride that he had “worked” over 1.000 hotels within four years. He had made a habit of preservng identity papers and other personal documents which came into his hands so that he could make use of no less than 135 identities with the support of official documents. It was owing to a slip of memory in confusing two of these identities that he was captured.