RESERVIST SENT TO GAOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16671, 16 October 1917, Page 6

RESERVIST SENT TO GAOL.

EVASION- OF THE SERVICE ACT. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. A TOT7NG Irian named George William Hudson was charged at the Magistrate's Court this morning with failing to enrol under the Military Service Act, and with assuming a name other than that by which he was known on November 1, 1915. " Unfortunately," said Sab-Inspector

3 Alullany, "this is absolutely the greatest . liar I think I have ever met. He hi>s . shifted around changing his name from Hudson to Banard, Chapman and LeonI ard." The sub-inspector added that HudI son came under police notice in 1916, in Auckland, where he picked up with an. 5 unfortunate girl, who had been living with [ him as his wife. He bad told her that , he was connected with Fullers, and had brought her down to get her on thn i stage. v On Saturday he told the police) , that he was a married man with two , children in Victoria. Later he stated i that he was married and had three childr ren somewhere else. Finally he said that the girl was his wife. She had now gone [ j back to her parents. " That is enough," : said Mr. Bailey, 1 B.M. "He is sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each charge, tmtences to i run concurrently,"