The New York herald., 1921-08-12
POLICE BEWILDERED
ANEW BY 1T. HAMON
sAmnesia Victim Elabo-
rates Another Confession
to Authorities.
STICKS TO PARIS TALE
Insists He Was in France
and Got Hurt in Auto
Wreck.
GOT IN TROUBLE HERE
Sentenced to Jail for Red
Cross Collections, He
Declares.
GOT IN. TROUBLE HERE

The police OF Bridgeport listened
yesterday to confession" from
George Weiss. the alleged amnesia
victim" who was Lieut.. George
Hamon" to the authorities of the
North Hudson Hospital at Weehawken,
but who became Kenneth Sanford"
when he walked into a hospital at
Bridgeport on August and asked for
treatment.
But after the Confession" the police
are unable to say whether Weiss IS
telling them another of his fanciful
tales, whether he is telling the truth
so far as he remembers it, or whether
he does not know the true story OF his
life and his derelictions.
Weiss, who is being held on charge
OF fraud preferred by the police of
weehawken. said that he was SO years
that he really had been overseas. He
ssid that during 1918 he posed as an
English army officer in New York city
md collected $4,000 by speaking for
the Red Cross drive. He insisted. how
ever. that he did not remember all that
had occurred since his skull was
splintered in an automobile wreck near
Paris in October. 1917. and that he
really had suffered from loss Of memory.
Nervous Under Questioning.
When Weiss. whose identity was
DO NV Apc INT CHI ad
by the police of New York and Whee-
hawken. was brought into Police Head
quarters he still wore the expression of
n sleepwalker. His answers to ques-
tions of detectives and reporters were
vague at first, but soon he became
nervous. and turning to Sergeant
Michael Arnolsky asked that he be al
lowed to make a statement to him
privately.
The statement related how Weiss
went to Europe in July. 1917. with the
ambulance unit organized by Mrs. w.
X. Vanderbilt. Jr. He said that he was
stationed at and near Paris most of the
time. but that once, unknown to his
superior officers, he went up to the
front. He was injured in the automo-
bile accident in October OF that year,
he said. and returned to New York.
II got in with some people who were
wealthy" said Weiss. They were
putting through another Red Cross drive
at the time. and as my uniform was
similar to that of British officer they
thought / would be good man to help.
Several of us got a lot of money out
OF 1t. / got $4,000 for myself. I
thought there was something crooked
about 1t and that a crash would come
sooner or later"
Was Sentenced Here.
Later. he said. while with the ambu-
lance service at Allentown, Pa. he was
brought before the camp officials, asked
about the Red Cross money. and finally
taken to New York. where he was SEN
fenced by Judge MuIqueen in General
Sessions to serve twenty-five months in
the penitentiary.
Weiss said he was released from
prison July II, 1920. He went to New
York. he said, but does not remember
what happened between then and jan
nary OF this year, when he woke up
IN Portland, Me. Since then. he said, he
has been at the Maryland General Hos
pital at Baltimore, at the Albany Hos
pital. at the North Hudson Hospital, and
finally at the Bridgeport Hospital. He
said he went to the hospitals because
MS mead was hurting MN. tie asked
the police to notify his sister. Mrs. Helen
Schwab OF 81 Post street, Yonkers.
At the Post street house II was said
last night that Mrs. Schwab was at a
summer resort in the Catskills. but
neighbors recalled George Weiss as
having visited her frequently. They
said he served overseas in an ambu-
lance unit and that his sister received
letters from France stating that he had
been gassed.