AUDACIOUS SWINDLER

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1929, Page 14

AUDACIOUS SWINDLER

POSING AS JOURNALIST. PUNCH WRITER DELUDED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, July 20. Air. A. P. Herbert, of Punch, who visited New Zealand in 1925 with the Empire Press Union delegates, abandoning his customary humour a few days ago, turned serious in order to his London readers the story of an audacious swindler, still at large, who is masquerading as D. B. AVyndham Lewes, the noted humourist, who contributes to the Daily Alail. The impostor who had deluded the actor, Air. Alalcolin Keen, leading actresses and several Guardsmen, induced Air. Herbert to allow him to sleep in his house, after telling a plausible story in a theatre about owning a private aeroplane, in which he invited the ladies of a theatrical company to fly. The Evening News now states that the impostor described himself as an Australian in order to victimise the London business representatives of an Australian weekly newspaper.