Fraudsters And Charlatans (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
The prisoner was found lying on his bed, his legs terribly burnt. In a desperate attempt at suicide, he had set fire to his straw mattress, and then lain determinedly in the flames. He survived, but was too ill to be tried until the following July, when he had to be carried into court. Harry Benson was the 24-year-old French-born son of a respectable Jewish merchant. Educated in London and Paris, he was well dressed, spoke several languages and was an accomplished musician and composer. The previous October he had called on Sir Thomas Dakin, the Lord Mayor of London, claiming to be the Marquis de Morancy, Mayor of Châteaudun, and bearing a letter of introduction from Monsieur Léon Say, the Prefect of the Seine. The Mansion House Fund for relief of the French had been set up during the recent Franco-Prussian War, and the Mayor was happy to give the Marquis a cheque for £1,000. It wasn’t until the following month that the visit was mentioned to Monsieur Say, who replied that he knew nothing of the Marquis and had not written the letter in question.
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