BOGUS COURT.
■ IV• ' i I PARIS, August 26. : “Count.” Adhemar d& Maupas, a dis-tinguished-lookTng, well-dressed man of 32, who lived in the best Paris hotels and was a frequenter of the most exclusive dance halls and night restaurants, had just been arrested. He is charged with a series of thefts from dancing partners, many of them "women well known in Paris social circles. Alaupas, it appears, is not a count at all, his real name being Francis Alaupas, while his claim to descend from a family which'dates back to the Crusaders is equally false. He has already been sentenced five times for similar frauds on women, lm the police are astounded at. the influence he maintains over his victims even after his arrest.
The examining magistrate in charge of the case has already rceived a score of weeping women who, while * they have been defrauded by Maupas, implore the magistrate not to ask them to give evidence against him but to set him free.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1929, Page 7
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164BOGUS COURT. Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1929, Page 7
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