Jerry Tarbot

Jerry Tarbot was an American conman who claimed he was an amnesia victim of World War I.[1]

In 1927 he was exposed as a fraud before the U.S. House of Representatives veterans legislative committee by Department of Justice investigators. Investigation began after a bill was introduced in Congress by California Representative Carter to compensate "Tarbot" as a veteran. The investigators stated that "Tarbot" was in fact Alexander Dubois, Jr., described as a draft dodger, car thief and wife deserter with more than twenty aliases in Pennsylvania and Michigan, who was stealing cars in California at the time he claimed he was in France.[2][3]

In 1928 he published his alleged life story: Jerry Tarbot The Living Unknown Soldier.

References

  1. ↑ "Jerry Tarbot Coninues a Mystery Man". Lewiston Evening Journal. AP. October 16, 1926. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Mystery Vet Called Draft Dodger, Crook". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 3, 1927. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Tarbot is Called Impostor". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. March 2, 1927. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
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