MAN WITH 16 ALIASES.

Mataura Ensign, 11 December 1917, Page 6

MAN WITH 16 ALIASES.

(Sentence of three years penal sei-, vitude was passed at the Old Bailey on Charles Nowland, 43, .for bigamy and theft. . _,,,.... , He married Ada AVheate m i!'«l ( M left her with tour children m 191-1. lie met Olive Codling at a tea shop, tidd her his wife had died through-a bite from a pet horse, and that he was worth -£7OOO. Ho "married" her and deserted her at Totues. stealing her engagement ring and dressing-case. Newland was said l.\y the police to be a most plausible scoundrel of the worst type. Under the name of "Miiiuent l'-orbes" ho ran a bogus matriiinonial agenev, and complaints had keen received 'rrom all over the country of people having been swindled of from «J1 to £SO. Altogether he had adopted 16 names. He had conducted services as a missioiier to navvies at Epsom, uad practised as a solicitor, and another bigamous marriage had been discovered. " Judge Ren ton 1, who. described Ne.wiand as a clever scoundrel, said it was one of the worst cases that had ever come before him.