The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17
Papers Full of the Details of
The Effort of Benjamin UII-
mo to Sell important Pa
pers on Matters of State.
MAN DRESSED AS WOMAN
AT LAST FOUND OUT.
DR.. Janseline Writes a Note of
Warning in Regard to In
crease of Leprosy in France
Other News of France.
(By Raoul de Saint Renee

Paris, Nov. 1G.-The discovery OF !
the treachery of a French naval sub
lieutenant, Benjamin Ullmo, has caus ,
cd most painful sensation in France
and the papers are full Of the case. .
benjamin Ullmo, of Jewish extraction,
is the son Of highly respectable and
worthy people at ToulOn.
His crime was committed solely as
he has himself confessed, in order TO
have money to spend on the woman
with whom he lived, beautiful crea- /
ture, known locally as La Belle
Lison"
ILLINOIS antecedents are, hnwever, |
not of the fairest, for even in his |
school days he got himself into dis
grace for stealing the bicycle of a
comrade, selling it and spending the
proceeds.
The story of how Ullmo carried on
negotiations with the French Marine
department anonymously through the
papers and of his dramatic capture
would furnish the material for an ex-
citing novel
Writing first of all to the Ministry
and telling the authorities there that
he was in possession OF important
state documents for which he wanted
q large sum of money failing which
Ie would sell them to a foreign power. |
a
wer should be conveyed to him !
through the personal-or, as they are
called in Europe the 'agony"-col !
umns of Paris newspaper.
The authorities, stealthily laying
their plans to catch the miscreant, did
this, and for some time negotiations
were carried on in this manner, the
venue of the correspondence, which to
the ordinary, unsophisticated reader
was of the most innocent kind being
then changed to a TOulon paper. |
The day was in this way arranged
when an emissary of the Navy Depart
ment was to meet Ulimo in a Ionly
place and hand over the money In re-
turn for the important documents.
The authorities. with a stroke Of
find in the office of a government de-
partment, chose as their representa-
tive professor OF boxing. Ullmo met
him and covered him with a pistol
The boxer, throwing up his arms,
showed that he himself was weapon
less and refused to do anything until
ullmo had thrown away his pistol.
The traitor. satisfied did so. I'M
mediately the >rnment representa-
tive with one ve.:directed blow knock
ed the man down, and before he could
rise again, they We're joined by sever
al detectives, who had been hiding in
the vicinity and the traitor was secur-
ed
Neny. the leader of the men who es-
capped after several days imprison-
ment from the terrible mining catas-
trophe at Courrieres last year, being
unable any more to work as a miner.
was given a post as tobacconist and
local postmaster by the French Gov
ernment.
He has now thrown up his post be-
cause he says 1t does not bring him
anything like the profits which were
promised him and not enough to keep
his family. As a miner he earned four
times as much.
He has addressed a letter OF resig-
nation to the Minister of Finance
pointing this out in rather naughty
terms and threatening TO make some
awful disclosures about the disaster
of that time. In the meantime Nenv
has accepted an offer 10 so to New
York and lecture.
A man who has for some time been
living dressed as woman has been
discovered in a remarkable manner. \
gamekeeper OF Riom, France, found a
woman shooting, and asked her for
her license. She said she was Madame
Lamy artist and pianist at Riom.
The gamekeeper, being convinced
that the woman was in reality a man,
asked the individual TO accompany
him to the police station. When they
arrived there the gamekeeper's sus-
picions We're found to be justified
The person then confessed that he
was man and that he was a Russian
named Leon Lamy. born in 1916 Why
was he masquerading in women's
clothes? Because his son in Algiers
had murdered a woman and the plea
of insanity was set up.
The counsel for the defense alleged
that the prisoner suffered from here.
ditarv madness and that he had thus
sacrificed himself and gone about in
female garb so that his sons counsel
could say that the old man was mad
since he did this
DR.. Janselme writes note of warn
ing with regard TO the increase of lep
rosy in France, saying: Thanks &c