SEVEN YEARS’ DECEPTION.
IMPERSONATED DEAD SOEIHEK
PRISONER\S CONFESSION BY CABIJE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPY EIGHT. Received 2.15 p.m. to-day. MELBOURNE. Aug. 5. A prisoner, after being sentenced to four years’ for shop breaking, handed the judge a written confession. He stated that for seven years he impersonated a dead Australian soldier, and having brought disgrace of the name wished to have thus made public and the family name restored. , - , , -He further stated that the soldier s mother had mcognised him as her own son and that he had led her to believe he was her son. who had been killed in a brawl in New York. The judge, in sentencing the prisoner, said he had brought disgrace on a respectable family.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 August 1927, Page 9
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118SEVEN YEARS’ DECEPTION. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 August 1927, Page 9
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