IMPOSTOR’S CAREER
MISSING SOLDIER’S RETURNLONDON, October 13. A man who said that he was Oskai’ Daubmann, who was believed to have been killed in the war, returned to Daubmann’s home town Endigen, Germany, in May, and told a story of having been taken prisoner and sent to a prison camp in Africa. He was feted as a hero. He has now been arrested as Carl Hummel, a tailor, with an unedifying police record. Hummel confessed everything and admitted he had told the story with the object of securing a free journey from Italy. The affair recalls the famous Tichborne case because Hummel was accepted as their son by Daubmann’s parents. Old regimental colleagues unhesitatingly identified him as Daubmann. The impostor has been on a lecture tour throughout Germany.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1932, Page 12
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