Brazen-faced Impestor.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1887, Page 7

Brazen-faced Impestor.

Accobbot to revelations recently made (lap tie Melbourne "Age"), it appears tint tfcment Jackson, "8.A., of "King's Collie, London," who, as reported in the "Age," by misrepresentation led Pastor ABen, of Sydney, to believe that he was an "escaped Jesuit of the name of Father Jtfome Gement Vernon." thoroughly enjojaJAimself during his brief stay in Ballamt Having a fairly good address, he in Ik first instance beoiirae acquainted .vi& a--well-known magistrate, who him to various friends, including a leading broker. The man ti the Comer drove him around the city; in a tandem, stopping every wahdatraiH at " this memorable spot," be "that remarkable sight." "Father V'fmqtt";expressed " pleshah " at what he ki seen from the peat of the tandem, and up return life to the city, he shook hands nitthe mmmg -man, and said he wns a "raßy ffOod fellow." Jackson, it is listed, next appeared at the palace of the P,om Catholic bishop, Dr. Moore, and through the medium of apparently genuine introductions, lie, report says, obtained xWs^on.to the sanctum of his lordship, ah gave him a kindly reception. Subsequently he met other dignitariffloffche Roman Catholic Church, who felt delighted with the grace and polished mk«h of the new arrival. Whether "Father Jerome" was successful in Hearing money or other valuables at ttepakce has not been ascertained, but, S3 already reported, he afterwards " stole " property from tha house of a Protestant tkrgyman. Prior to this, however, Jackson 'isited the residences of other Protestant jttters, and as he pretended he had a Wedge of medicine and surgery, he was 'Bowed to perform an operation on the neck olone minister of the Gospel. How the unfortunate clergyman is progressing aftor jjie "lancing" process is not stated, but respecters of the cloth" hope that he is doing welL Even Martin Hosking, the at Ballarat, who ought to wthelast man in the world to be victimised, Mttedatthe hands of " Clement Jackson, H.KingV College, London." Clement, 111 Conversation with a newly-made «qoaintanoe, said that he had great lo%'e »t the poor, and it was his custom to "white m alms in every town he visited "M of money which he received as birthJjWresents f rom j, ig motner ; n England. JlHo6king was forthwith introduced, and J* the request of "Father Jerome," Merwise Clement Jackson, 8.A., he snmF'Mafrom the highways and from the byW, from the Chinese quarters and from Z A SlUmS' halt alld tllC blilKl' tllC r»and the aged, in order to partake of the '^Provided by Mr Jackson. The indigent •"Wemerryto their hearts'contont, and clurotnerepastMongolian and European wore s™°\f 8 that "Mr Jaokßon welly good and tli Jackson, however, disappeared, Wj6^°stof fchat expensive meal had not by him. Clement made the up with the sick a kind of hobby, -finest prayers and other devotions * ° twJ»m many friends in the NorthU?n^strict, in one of the gaol* in which s«ved a sentence. In Sydney, according fe™: report, he succeeded in passing iZmt ?,PaßtorAllen as an .ex-Jesuit Ci T" 8' and the pastor was so Sfedwith thQ Btory of l the impost or formed the statements which he had CL? v a leot «re, which was anything faitV (?f entai>v t0 the Roman Catholic iaat(i n <ivo<?rse^ac'58on was never an into te °, the fesuit College at Kew. WritFridav^^^tne Ballarat "Star" of offirtlPatherNulty, the principal '^ment in! aphatically contradicts the 111^1116 "■