Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-04-16
A FRENCH COMPETE
IN COUNTY JAIL
HIS STRANGE STORY REGARDING
HIMSELF.
Charged With Practicing Medicine
Without a License.


ton Will result but the groundwork
for such a complication was laid yes
terday by Constable Murphy when he
arrested and locS-d - a French noble
man, the Compile de Condo de Poligny.
At least the prisoner says that is who
he is and his say So is as good a title
TO nobility in France as any other war
rant.
But the compile was not arrested for
being nobleman or Frenchman, but
for practicing medicine without a Ii
Cense under the title of Dr. l.. \. Mar
quis. Complaint had been made
against him by the officers of the
medical association who had learned
that he had been an offender for
months. He first operated j. this ter
Iitory in jerome, Humboldt ana Mayer.
At that tine an investigation was be
sun. but the CD,apte evidently disap-
peared and came to Phoenix, where he
attracted no special professional at
tentiOn. He was locked up in January
for a disturbance Of the peace and
served a term in Jail. But that was
not an entirely novel experience, for
have found that ne served a term in
Jail at Prescott for beating a board bill
The compile claims To be well ground
ed in the art and science of medicine
and surgery. His cards show that he
learned all there was To be learned in
France. after which he spent two years
at the medical institute at 'Eidelberg'
and two years more at Vienna.
There is really no such place as
Eidelberg The compte probably had
a vague nOtiOn that he meant Heidel-
burg, and the printer OF the cards
evidently either did not know any more
about the great university town than
the compte or else he was one of those
hard and fast followers of copy"
II is further announced by the cards
that the cOmpte was for some time a
surgeon in the French army and still
later associated with the public hos
pitfalls of Paris
The compte admits that his name is
not DR.. Marquis as is explained in the
following statement issued by him.
MY STRANGE MENTAL CONDI-
TION:
Who am /? What am /?
erences of the past (Which right they
would have to ask, unfortunately
could not answer or grant such refer
ences. GOD only knows who | am,
where | came from. / do not,.-who or
what I was a little over four y-ars ago
is deep mystery to me
Il remember bcing sick for a long
time-it seems To me that one night
I went away for a long time under the
influence of a terrible fear. then
blank again-GOd knows for how long
one day / awOke in a little Manitoba
,Canada) town and found myself bear
ing the name / now bear and earning
my living by the same profession which
now pursue
For two years l made researches re
gardins myself, but never one clue; no
medical colleges had such a name on
record. Yet | must have been an. NJ. d.
and surgeon. because without doubt
/ have since had a brilliant success in
the profession"
question Obtrudes. If the compile,
in spite Of all his researches about him
self. has been unable to pierce the dark
mystery that fills up all the years back
of the last four years, how does he
know, or what makes him think. ne
was the Compile de Condo de Poligny?
And how does he know that he lived
in Paris, "Eidelberg" and Vienna, and
how does he know that he was sur
geon in the French army?
J. \. Porterie is a Frenchman of long
standing. but he says that he cannot
understand the French Of the compile.
However. he has no edge on the compte,
who cannot understand the French of
Monsieur Porterie.
Meanwhile the compte is in Jail for
want OF bail