NOT WHAT HE SEEMED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 5 July 1926, Page 7

NOT WHAT HE SEEMED.

REMARKABLE IMPERSONATION. | A BOGUS GENERAL. SUICIDE FOLIOWS EXPOSURE. I i I (By Gaol.. — Press A-SO-.-iacioz. -Co?vruat-' I .LONDON", July 4. the suicide of "..sacral'' VV. $. Turner,; a '.veil-known Boy _eo_-. Commissioner I ::: London, and an a.-t.ve member of I":-.- H. He wore a brigadier-general's uniform on ceremonial occasions, decorated witaj the D...0.. but the fae: that both rank I and decoration were bogu_ was only j revealed .rhen be was found shot dead at Bromley I", has -in.c been revealed :La: priori to ais stiiiide. Turner was questioned j 1 regarding financial irregularities in con- I nection with the Boy Scouts" Club. Moreover, his colleagues were sua | pi-.-ions regarding hi; rank, owing to! rurner telling his manservant that he I ■ was expecting a telephone call from the! I War utfice. Later, a voice asked tori I "General Turner" and the servant I of i Peokham tailor, and was formerly, i zuarier m the Royal Artillery tie wa. His' friends are" .till ~"relu -an: to wlieve -.hat turner t_ a fraud, as his :.iir.:a_.e activities were remarkable.; 1 "His secrets and sufferings are over. 1 Let us allow the many who mourn him I !to hold his memory dear." This is the j last paragraph in a letter to the Press written by the Rev. Clayton, of Toe H, j referring to Turner. Mr. Clayton says: "I cannot ask for a suppression of the essential facts, but I much should be forgiven this strange, j great-hearted man, whom hundreds of men and boys learned to regard as the j best man they ever knew. Whatever his faults his influence was sincere and I i wholesome.— i and N.Z.) ! I