A "MYSTERY MAN"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 43, 15 November 1918, Page 4

A "MYSTERY MAN"

CLAIM TO BE BOiIENZOLLEKN.

' Sentence of six months' imprisonment was passed at Bow Street, London, on a"mystery man," Ralph O'Hflgan, for re- v fu«iV to answer questions put to him under the Defence of the Ecnlm Act regulations. Mr. Muskett (prosecuting) said the prisoner was found wandering aimlessly at East G mislead (a prohibited area) with no papers. Who he is, what he is, or where he comes from was not known.. O'Hagan: "1 pleaded guilty to being in a prohibited orea to save producing papers. I served my time ot four months, and there was an end of it. Then 1 was asked whether I would join the American or the British Army, and I said, 'The British Army,' and I received my first day's pay. I said I was nearly related to the Hohenzolleni^ family, but my real name was 0 Hogan. At .Scotland Yard ho said that his age was 27 years, and he was born in Chicago. There were "certain reasons, mainly political," why he could not say more. He claimed to be American. Asked how ho was related to the Hohennollern family, he answered, "You would not consider the present family on the llnone here as Germans, would you£ .1 am related to several families but 1 do not want this kind of thing brought up. I cannot do more Hum I have done. I am bound by Hie code of honour of the familv lam bound by their code, and cannot possibly do anything but behave courteously." ■