The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-12
Confession of Weiss
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 Red Cross drive. As had been in service and had uniform similar to an English officer, they thought I would be a likely chap for the drive. The head of one of the big financial houses in New York got quite a little Dit of money out of the drive, and I, myself, got s12,o0O.
 T was afraid the crash would coms so l enlisted in the mbula.nce Ser- vice and was sent down to Allentown, Pa, where I was later transferred to the Post Exchange.
 One day the sergeant of the guard took me to headquarters where Col PearsonS questioned me about the Red Cross stuff and locked me up, when I said I didn't know what he was talking about.
 They search ed me and Lieut. Franklin took about s2Oo away from me and put it in an envelope. In my pocketbook in writing were cer- tain numbers and alongside of them the names of towns and places in France.
 Well, if one knew these numbers you could tell where your friends were in France as the mail came to the United States showing the sta tion number only. I got that copy while I was in Europe. They took me for a spy then and had three guards over me continually.
 "One day coming back from dinner the guards took the Shackles off me, and took me up stairs where I was given an awful beating, and when woke up Col. Franklin was with me and forced me to sign a confession that I was the only one who got the Red Cross collections.
 Later they took me over to New York and I was tried before Judge MuIqueeney in the court of General Sessions on the specific charge of ob- taining S200 from Aaron Singer. was put up for pleading, and became acquainted with the Prosecuting At torney, who promised to take care of me.
 +-When my case was called, the prosecutor pleaded guilty for me to petty larceny-the original charge was grand larceny. was taken back to the Tombs and ,remanded for sen- tence for a week. came up before the judge again when my head was aching continually and I was in pretty bad shape. I called the judge every thing I could think of, and he sen fenced me to 25 months in the New York county penitentiary.
 ''I knew little about medicine so they made me doctor at the peniten- dary. During my servitude I gave them quite a little trouble. and they started to call me 'Habeas Corpus,' I spent all my money so I could swear out a pauper's writ
 The confession goes on to tell that he was paroled on June IT, 1920, when he had but six cents in his poe zets. He stayed for a few days in New York, and claimed no knowledge 1f his actions or travels, save for -wo months in Wallingford, Connec- icut. until he woke up in Portland, Me-, on January s, 1921.
 -Then I went back to New York le continued, and then down to Bal | imore where I entered the Maryland | General hospital and stayed until | March, I then went up to Albany | md stayed in the Albany hospital un- 1 il I was transferred to St. Peters | hospital The doctor there used some l lind of hypnotic influence over the | ases, and I must have told him | bout my jail record-you know, a | ase of stronger mind over a weaker me-" |
 According to his story he left the | rospita1 around July 4.
 '1The 1apSeS of time I cannot ac- ount for as my head has troubled me | O." he claimed.
 He also instructed the police to no fly his sister. Mrs. Helen Schwab, of | 1 Post street, Yonkers, N- r., of his | light