Jerry Tarbot

Jerry Tarbot was an American conman who claimed he was an amnesia victim of World War I. On April 10, 1926 The Healdsburg Tribune published on article/photograph on Tarbot calling him the "sliding ghost" of World War I.Healdsburg Tribune 10 April 1926

Timeline
In March 1927 Congressman Royal Johnson of South Dakota Chairman of the Veterans Committee claimed what was the real story of "Tarbot":
 His real name was Alexander Dubois, jr. the son of a chef in a Cuban hotel and Mary Richards Riley and had a Aunt in New York named Riley.
 He had 20 alias.
 He was a draft dodger.The Pittsburgh Press March 2, 1927
 In January 1913 under the alias of "Howard Francis Noble" he applied for a job with General Electric Company in Erie, PaThe Spokesman-review March 2, 1927
 In 1915 and 1916 he was known as "Howard Noble" and resided in Sharon Pa from June 1916 to July 1917. Pittsburg Press March 2, 1927 and was working at the Briggs Seabury Company.Healdsburg Tribune March 2, 1927 ^
 In 1916 he was working in the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co at Akron, Ohio.Pittsburg Press March 2, 1927
 He had married at least twice:
 In Schenectady, New York to a first wife.
 That after working in the American Car and Foundry Company in Detroit, Michigan he meet Flora Lange and that he married her under the name "Harold Noble" in Toledo, Ohio December 22, 1917. And that after living in Erie, Pennsylvania there was a divorce after domestic trouble and that she last heard from "Noble" in 1918 when he claimed not to be responsible for her debts. They were divorced in January 1918Cornell Daily Sun March 3, 1927
 In 1922 he was arrested in San Francisco for auto theft under the alias of "Blake". Pittsburgh Press March 2, 1927 ^; that his attorneys had him declared insane and placed in a asylum where he posed as a amnesic war veteranSpokesman review March 2, 1927 ^
 In 1928 he published his alleged life story: Jerry Tarbot The Living Unknown Soldier.Online Library archive
 In 1932 Tarbot was a resident of Santa Rosa, CaliforniaHealdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar, Number 46, 12 May 1932
 In January 1956 Tarbot renewed the copyright of “Jerry Tarbot The Living Unknown Soldier” under the name Jerry J MartinUS Catalog of Copyright Entries(Renewals)Books from 1928 Titles starting with H, I & J
 In 1972 still using the alias of Tarbot, he died in Califorina

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Category:1882 births
Category:1972 deaths
Category:American fraudsters