PRISON TERROR.
SPEAKS TWELVE LANGUAGES. A French-Canadian convicted at! Clerkenwell Sessions oji Thursday, Nov-1 ember 5, was said to have been in and: out of prison ia KS!)2, and to be so \ troublesome to the <>aol authorities that 1 they receive liim into their care with' considerable dread, lii.s name is Albert! jUnx Martin, aged (i 3, mid he was found guilty of obtaining food and Judging by false iii'eteuces. Accused had jiosed as .secretary to a "Baron Liehterfel/' a bogus nobleman. Tlie prosecution ?.aid he had had "u most extraordinary career.'' Detective William Steel said Marti.i was only at liberty a fortnight when lie committed the present Jrauds, and he was arrested as he left prison after serving a week in gaol for being drunk. According to the prisoner's own statements he v&i educated in Germany. Jtaly, Switzerland, and England, lie was at Kton Harrow, and also at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Bonn, Heidelberg, Konigsberg, Berlin, (Jeiieva-. lsologna, and Rome*. He claims to have studied as a doctor, and to ha ve had five medals given to him for hrav- [ ery duriag the war, 1870. and three during the BulgarianI Turko war.
Accused said lie was aide-de-camp, private secretary and interpreter—he says lie speaks' twelve languages—to .Miirescliall JlaeMiihon and Marcwflia.! Bazaine. Thirty years ago lie hail a beautiful hotel at Lucerne, Switzerland, and through family complications lost a fortune of .t'30.000.
Sentence of three and ;i half veals' penal servitude was passed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 13, 9 February 1909, Page 3
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244PRISON TERROR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 13, 9 February 1909, Page 3
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