UNINVITED GUEST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 24, 11 January 1912, Page 2

UNINVITED GUEST.

The remarkable adventures of a barber in the highest society of Vienna were related in the courts last month by Joseph Bohac, aged twenty-three, who was suspected of exchanging a shabby ulster for a very nice fur coat vftcr a reception at the Ministry of War. Bohac asserted that he was well known in the best circles in Vienna, io which lie had introduced himself a year before. Being tired of what he called the “sordid cares” of the barkers shop, lie resolved one evening to •see life as it was lived by the wealthiest and noblest families of the city. He ordered some visiting cards to lie engraved with the name of a great French family, and walked into the reception rooms at the .Ministry of War. Finding that everyone was quite pleasant to him, he fell into the habit if going uninvited to the largest houses whenever a ball or dinner on a large scale was announced. He took the greatest care as to his appearance, and having naturally a good presence was never suspected, since he frequented only the largest entertainments. As for the fur overcoat, he explained that the servants at the War Ministry pushed him into it and deposited him in a cab while he was too drunk with champagne and too exhilarated by his success to make any protest. He went to the Ministry next evening and told the porter of the mistake, but nobody would undertake to do anything. The case is postponed pending inquiries as to 'the ■ truth of the im- | poster’s story.