AN UNMASKED IMPOSTOR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 57, 23 February 1918, Page 15

AN UNMASKED IMPOSTOR.

HIS STARVING WIFE'S LETTER.

A story of deception has come to light concerning John Dobsou, who took poison at the South African Officers' Club, Westminster, Loudon, -where he was employed as an orderly. At the inquest a police sergeant said the man was formerly a sergeant-major, but hud been reduced. Although he had a wife and family at •Kimberley, he bad become seriously Involved with a number of women. He was living with a woman who thought he was her husband. He had lived with other women, including the wife of a soldier In France, aud had promised to marry a Woking girl who was seventeen years old and take her to South Africa. In another case' a father brought his daughter to the club and created a sccue, -with the result that Dobson promised to marry her. There was once a scene at the club through his mistaking one of the women on the telephone. He had -borrowed money' from women with whom he had stayed. The Coroner snld a letter was found from his wife, who was struggling to bring up the family, in which she said: "I am starving half the month, but you never mind about mc. I close my letter with a broken heart. Best love and kisses from the childreu and your forgotten wife. We shall meet again In heaven—or in helL"