Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-16 | Page 33 | Mystery Man in French Legion Called Fake

MYSTERY MAN IN FRENCH H LEGION CALLED f FAKE A KI Measurements Prove He HeIs HeIs Is Not Oklahoman as asHe asHe as He Claimed By RALPH HEINZEN United Press Preas Staff Correspondent PARIS Feb 15 UP UP Thc The mystery mys mys- tery of or tho the unknown foreign legion legion- name in tho the French military prison of ot Algeria Js is solved so far fal as John Pritchard of CushIng Cush- Cush Ing ng Okla Okia is concerned A minute examination of or the body shows that thal ho does not have u a single one ono of ot the tho scars which Pritchard was known to have French prison officials are arc convinced convinced con con- vinced that tho le legionnaire who claims to bo be suffering from amnesia and ind gives gl at It times g tho the names mrnes of oC OBrien O'Brien or Ernest do and la lays claim to being American British and Belgian lan was simulating his ils identity as Pritchard to obtain money from front Mra i Eltea Pritchard an in Oklahoma widow DISAPPEARS AGAIN Tho rho mysterious prisoner has now been pardoned after aCter having having- served cd part of or ti a term for or attempted de des desertion desertion de- de s from tho the Je legion lon and has gone sono to Morocco where ro ho lie has lias again 1 disappeared m mysteriously There has been no trace of him bini since he ho crossed sed the border When rhen the tho state department In Washington forwarded measurements measurements measure measure- ments mentH and identification marks of tho the real Pritchard to the lie American consul in Algiers Oscar S. S tho the comparison showed how d that thep the tho p prisoner Ison r In no way resembled tho the American The legionnaire had exchanged letters with the tho widowed mother of ot tho the missing Pritchard and by clever clev clev- V Ver er simulation n convinced her that lie he was her son on He Ito wrote in fri a a. veiled way of or Oklahoma of or recalling recall recall- In lug ing dimly his youth among the In Indians In- In tItans lans and when Mrs 1 Pritchard would write t asking him huh If it he lie re remembered re- re names or 01 details lie Jie in invarIably invariably invariably in- in variably answered that he dl did 1 MONEY SENT SON Despite the suggestion of or the state department that tho the man might not be her son Mrs Pritchard Pritchard ard and was firmly convinced con that he was She sent him morley money from time lime to time and once sent a bundIe bundle bundle bun bun- dle dIe of or linen American and French officials bellevo be- be Pritchard was killed In the tho World war war although h his mother has refused to accept that theory I