AGED PHYSICIAN ARRESTED.
CRIME OF 1880 PREFERRED. New York, Mar. 28. A telegram from Asbury Park, New Jersey, says Dr. Irwin Osbaldeston, aged 93, once a physician for the British Government and with private interests in Australia and New Zealand, is held here awaiting extradition to New York State, where he is charged with stealing a horse and waggon in 1880. The yellowed documents on which the arrest was made allege that Dr. Osbaldeston, then known as Edward Turner, was sentenced to gaol and escaped before paying the penalty. The physican, who stated that he is a son of a former Earl Onslow by a Morganatic marriage, and was reared with tutors in London with the then Prince Edward, the former King, said: “It is simply a case of mistaken identity.—(Reuter).
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 87, 29 March 1926, Page 5
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131AGED PHYSICIAN ARRESTED. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 87, 29 March 1926, Page 5
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