WHOLESALE PERSONATION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1596, 29 June 1887, Page 4

WHOLESALE PERSONATION

It is Btated In Sydoey that wholesale impersonation was resorted to m the Parliamenta<y election lately wh9n Mr Wise defeated Mr Traill. In the vloinity of Albion fl'reot, it is mimred, was a house with a large room devoted solely to the purpoeo of '• turning th' m out " Round thereon were d'Zjns of different Bnits, the •' old o'.o' " shops of Paddy's Market having been cleared of the regimeuta's of impersonation. In one oorner of the room was a heap of flour; ln another a heap <f olar coal and coal-dust; and m anotbor a heap of fine tan bark' The bribed perooDcter would return from the booth a muddy-looking plpe-hyer, when he w ,uld change his "dudß" and by a rnovo of. the "c<m mlttee " would to change.] into a baker or a miller, the orowd pelting him with flour, or Into a stoker or coal-yard man, the crowd pelting h ; m with coal-dust, and so on. It ia said that b'ix or boy. n r<f thene impersonators were turned out m relays every half-hour : and It is .ali that only for the svrinllo being dis_overod and put a slop to there m'ght have been some 400 more bogus vo'cb pilled.