Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-09-09 | Page 8 | Cook Posing as Cleric Arrested

COOK POSING POSINa AS CLERIC ARRESTED ROME nOl Sep SepI 9 9 An OP An An au- au audacious d clous to io pay a holy year vIaL vl t to Rome Roman has proved pro the un un- undoing undoing un- un doing of ot a Polish soldier of ot for for- fortune tune tunc John who for It years ears has been an ecclesiastical Imposter Impostor In the cities of ot Europe was vas arrested when he aroused the suspicions of ot the I priest of oC a Polish church to whom ho hp posed as a monsignor In 1911 ISH he posed successfully Suc In Italy as the bishop of arsaw A later being expelled d from the country Although by profession proCession a cook T I has haa a n. thorough knowl knowl- knowledge edge of or the church history and ritual antI and speaks halt knit a 0 dozen languages 11 lIe Ho completely fooled Florentine c by whom he was re- re cei cd with great reat respect and anel whose guest he was until found out oat accidentally His Ills strange record shows shots's a 0 ca- ca I rc r of successful Impostures coy cov- pring ering a period of two decades In Polish Trench French German Austrian I and Italian cities citi's In hit which he fleeced the lie local prelates