Salt Lake Herald | 1900-12-27 | Page 8 | French Swindler Gets Long Sentence

FRENCH SWINDLED GETS LONG SENTENCE Paris Dec Dee 26 The appeal court has confirmed oon the sentence wf Or five years imprisonment imposed on an ingenious swindler named Goffray who posed in clerical circles here in April last as Cardinal Bishop of Washington so soliciting soliciting funds to convert the young oung In Indiana Indians diane diana of New Mexico Several times Goffray succeeded In celebrating mass massand massand and once was nearly arrested when on the point of celebrating rating mass at burg Finally he appeared appear d at Monte Montelimar Hmar Umar in Iii the department of Dr me i where he lectured to the TrappIst t monks on OB his terrible adventures in the Rocky M Mountains where he said he was scalped by the Indians to whom he be was preaching the gospel The fraud was discovered by Goffray pretending that the Indians of the Rocky Moan Moun Mountains I I talus were E i