Barcelona, Sept. 22.
'A sensational confession of being the murderer of the Paris Court Counsellor, M. Prince, was made last night.to the Spanish authorities at Viella, on the French frontier, by a Frenchman named "Etlense "tarins Combes.
Combes called at the Civil Guard station at 5 o'clock yesterday after-hoon and stated point blank tha: he was the assassin of M. Albert Prince, whose mutilated body was found on the railway tracks near Dijon, short= ly after the Stavisky scandal broke out in France.
Combes named -as his accomplice presumably the White-Haired Joe, implicated in the Stavisky scandal, saying that he had committed his crime with a former friend, called "White-Haired" whom he had known @uring the term of his military service in Morocco.
'Thisman, hesaid, had offered him Frs. 100,000 for Prince's murder, but him only Frs. 25,000 and a passport to Spain. He claimed that he had lived for several' months in Barcelona, but wanted to go back to France and gave himself up to the police, having no more money.
Very little credence is attached here to the man's sensational "confession" as it is believed that he invented the whole story, having come to the end of his resources and wish ing to be repatriated—Hav.
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