IMPOSTER GAOLED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16338, 12 May 1927, Page 10

IMPOSTER GAOLED

"PECOUD QUAKTEKMASTEE" VISITS TARANAKI fPer Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. lie was Warrant Officer Henry William Charles Beaument, he said, and he was on leave from H.M.S. Renown. According to his credentials he was well connected at Home. He carried newspaper photographs of the Hon. Vventworth Beaumont and the Hon. Ella Beaumont, "his little sister," oil' for a drive at Bretton Park, the home of Viscount Allendale, "their father." lie also carried v letter addressed lo Viscountess Allendale, his mother; he had badges and a cutting from a newspaper ail-i-ouncing the arrival in Hawera of "A record Quarter-master, Staff Officer Beaument, of H.M.S. Renown," and he wore a bright uniform in keeping when he stepped jauntily into the dock at the Police Court this morning. • All his confidence and all his documentary evidence had failed to convince "fJefoetive-Seigeaut Moiklivjohn that he was genuine, although he had stayed at. the best hotels in Hawera and New Plymouth. Ho had only Is Od when arrested and, further, his I'iiger prints corresponded with those Of William Henry McKay, who was well-known to the police. Up to the morning of his appearance in court he had maintained that he was not McKay. Nevertheless, when charged with being' idle and disorderly and with insufficient means of support, he pleaded guilty. "He is an out and out imposter," said the detective when handing a list of previous convictions to Mr. R. \V. Tail, S.M., "and 1 suggest he should receive the maximum of three months." Defendant had nothing to say, and was sentenced to three months' goal, with hard labor.