AN IMPOSTOR GETS HIS DESERTS.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Wellington, this day. Is the Supreme Court Herbert Wilfrid Lawaon, with several aliases, who was arrested in the Waikato districb under tha name of Gifford, was indicted on a charge of obtaining £7 from John Flockton, of Wellington, by falsely representing himself to be the son of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the temperance advocate. After an absence of two hours the jury returned a verdict of "Guilty." He was sentenced to two yeara' imprisonment.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 212, 6 September 1892, Page 5
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81AN IMPOSTOR GETS HIS DESERTS. Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 212, 6 September 1892, Page 5
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