STRANGE STORY OF IMPERSONATION.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16142, 21 February 1918, Page 2

STRANGE STORY OF IMPERSONATION.

♦ , CHARGE AGAINST A NEW ZEALAND SOLDIER. A story of the means whereby a soldier who enlisted in New Zealand and returned to Sydney from England drew a sum. of money at the Anzac Buffet as a returned wounded soldier without, however, ever being near the faring line, was related at the Paddington 1 ohce Court last "week, when Jos. -Henry Turner, or Joseph McAuliffe, !f aS i>o ? rg with obtaining the sum o £2 front the Defence Department uj means of certain false representation at Sydney on Januarv 4th. rnrX^ n Ar, * Willi Farlo >". of the Uarnson Military Police, said that accused, when told that he was wanted at Victoria Barracks, said: "I know what y o u want 1 me for. I'll go kite high for this!" Later at the Victoria Barracks accused said his name was J. • ~f D . er > , that ho had enlisted m Adelaide in 1914, but could not furnish the date. On the following day, said witness, liirner made a statement in which he admitted enlisted in New Zealand oir Dccemoer 14th, 1914, and sailed jor England as a member of the Z f ea , an( * Military Forces in April of the following year. Some time after arrival in England he became an inmate of several convalescent liosnitals and was afterwards detailed to proceed to the front. The night before he was to nave sailed he met a driver in A.1.F., Herbert Wm. Maxwell had been to the front and was booked to return to Australia on the following day as wounded. McAuliffe secured possession of Maxwell's papers, and went on board a transport, gave Maxwell's name, and left for Australia. On Jus'arrival- in Sydney accused went wit& -otter • returned soldiers to the Anzac Bnffetj signed himself as Driver Herbert. Wm. Maxwell, and obtained ail of £2. He then received 21 days and disappeared. Driver -Maxwell is still in England, wounded.

' n "». caee was adjourned for a week