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IMPOSTOR EXPOSED,

CLAIM TO BE BISHOP'S FOSTER-SON.

Loudon, August 30:-Exposure and punishment fell to the lot of an Impudent impostor at Blackpool. On the charge sheet he was described as Herbert

Hazel,

30, of no fixed abode, but he had claimed to be" the foster son of the Bishop of Sheffield" and "Major Hazel, D.SO., BS.C., Cavalry Chub, Yardley-street, Weston Park, Sheffield." Prisoner, a smartly- dressed young man, was charged with obtaining board and lodgings worth £9 88. from: Mrs. Margaret Ann Tomlinson, of Marton. According to the Chief Constable, i the Blackpool police made Inquiries about the man, and it was ascertained that he had been to warlous clergymen in the town and represented hin'self as "Major Hazel, the foster son of the Bishop of Sheffield He also stated he had served in the Army, and was award- ed the D.S.O. For saving the life of the bishop's son. He received various sums of money by telling this story. When he went to Mrs. Tomlinson's house prisoner proffered a curd on which was the Lame "Major Hazel, D.S.O., Cavalry Club, Vardicy-street, Weston Park, Sheffold." Oa agrest he told the police that Tom- inson, answer to prisoner, stated His fiancée had agreed to pay the Coney back 21 10s. a week.- Clerk: Why did you give her this card Prisoner: That was a little bit of vanity. There was no intention to defraud ber.The. Rev. A. Farrow, Vicar of St.

Church, Cuthbert's

Firvale, Shefeld, told the court that he had known prisoner for two or there years. He was not the foster son of the Bishop of Sheffield. Prisoner declared that when he caine out of hospital two years ago the Bishop of Sheffield looked after.. him and paid several debts, including one for £37, and the Bishop's wife luid Interested herself in him, so that he almost looked upon her as a foster- mother-Det-sergt. Leeson stated the address given as "Cavelry Clobin Shuffield was a little cot- age in a working-class district.-- Prisoner: That visiting card is vanity. Mr. Farrow knew the dis- ability under which I had been labouring for two and a half years. was in hospital suffering from brain lever and loss of memory.

Ithought my name was Hazel, and I served in the Army. If my name' is not Hazel, God alone knows what it is, because I don't-The Chief Constable intimated that he could have preferred a number of charges against prisoner, which would have necessitated the evidence of at leam 30 witnesses. Accused seents to be desirous of knowing what his real name is," added the Chief Constable, "and I will oblige him. It is Robert Robertson Godfrey, and he was born at Greenock, in Scotland, in the year 1901. He is now 23, and not 30, as stated by himself. "His mother was an unmarried music-hall artist, with whom he travelled up to her death in 1914′′ "After her death he went to reside with an uncle at Runcorn, whe described him as untruthful and dishonest. Later, he appeared on the music-hall stage, and at Sheffield, in May, 1922, was find in the street apparently suffering from loss of memory. After being treated in hospital, the Bishop of Sheffield and his wife took an interest in him, Hand employed him as a gardener. Ho as then found employment Sin the capacity of clerk and traveller. ;|| but did not give satisfactiörf, and was discharged as idle, or for neglect of duty, Since he that been in Blackpool he appeant to have been living entirely by his wits."Os being sent to pron for three months with hard I bhuri accused collapsed in the dock-rid had to be carried below by polos AD67Core.

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madam?" or the one of the boy was killed. A fortnight ago the who asked his father what a bison inhabitants of S. Vito, a little was, and was told, ” Oh I one of them things your mother makes the puddings in.”: The Princess Mary.

hamlet on the lower slopes of Vesuvius, were horrified;'on coming Weasel in his Trousers.

A New Zealand' gentleman

out from mass, to see a a pack of holidaying in Aberfeldy district

wolves awaiting them on thetopen had an extraordinary experience

No mother in the land has a with a weasel when hill climbing greater love for children than the spaco in front of the church. The with some friends.

women and children were hastily! The animal King's only daughter, and as a thrust back into the building and crossed the party's path, and, as he wife and mother she has set an barricaded in, while the men made had never seen a weasel before, unparalleled example of domesti- the Colonial made chase after it, city to the woman of the whole for the animals with their guns and succeeded in shooting) the? when, to his astonishment, the Empire. An ardent love of home leader. The war may be fairly weasel turned round and attacked fe has always been a tradition of held responsible for the increase him. It got up inside the leg of the British Royal Family. No in wolves, from the mere fact that his trousers, and when he gripped doubt it is a disappointment to the for four years all the able-bodied it, the weasel bit his thumb some Princess that her second child is peasants capable of hunting wild what severely right through the pot a girl, but sons have pre animals were, absent from their cloth. This made him relax his dominated in the Princess's family homes. The new game law, which hold, when the weasel went still she herself being an only limits shooting from the middle n further up his leg. Again he daughter with five brothers, and caught it just above his knee, and Queen Mary an only daughter with August to the end of December, is this time so firmly that he succeed three brothers. From her earliest viewed with disraay by those who have practical experience of the co in killing it.

days the Princess has been brought ravages of famished wolves, and up to be a good housewife (points.ill probably have to be altered. The many observations on the out the "Westminster Gazette Formerly wolves might be shot at point which have been made by When she was quite a small child any season, and a prize was given visitors now in London only serve was her duty to help with the for each carcass brought in; five to emphasise the fact that the mending of her brothers socks, ducats for a male, six for a female. Cockney accent is slowly but and nothing pleased her more One Abruzzi peasant accounted surely disappearing, points out a than to be allowed to make for Bfty-seven wolves in Afteen teacher of English in the Star, dainties for their tea. When she Particularly noticeable has been was very young some of her work the improvement, such visitors was shown at an exhibition of the declare, among those classes London Needlework Guild, which whom everyone hears speaking the Queen was visiting. Someone "My turn is coming at the at some time or other railway drew attention to the work and Assizes" dramatically declared porters, bus conductors, commis admired the neatness of the Edward Henry Goldring, brick- The Queen smilingly layer, of Marine place, Worthing, sionaires, cloak-room attendants, stitches,

The Cockney Dialect.

years.

Handcuffed in Dock.

or hawkers in the street. Nor is remarked, "I am afraid it cost as he was hustled out of the dock this surprising if one remembers some tears." For two years during at the local court, having been that much of the English teaching the war Princess Mary nursed at committed for trial on a charge of in schools in London and in the the Great Ormond Street Hospital improper assault :||An attractive. boroughs round the Metropolis is, for Children, and there she learnt looking girl, staying at apartments at present, and has been for some how to care for Bables in health in Firemen's Cottages, Worthing, few years pasf, directed towards and sickness, being particularly related that while, with a girl | •♥ the elimination of the Cockney anxious to understand the best frie: d on the Parade one evening accent Headmasters have found ways of dressing, undressing, and accused introduced himself to that boys who have left school bathing the children, also their them and they walked some. Hittle speaking without an accent have correct feeding, so the happy distance together. Goldring asked been invariably successful in duties of motherhood are well witness whether he would see obtaining desirable situations known to her. She was loved by him again; but she replied in the when competing with boys all the children, who used to look negative. While she was walking whose

accent had remained forward with eagerness to, ker on the Parade the next evening untouched. This would seem coming on duty.

to indicate that employers have Wolf Peril In Italy. a decided predilection for pure

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