A FAIRLY STRANGE CASE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1063, 28 February 1911, Page 4

A FAIRLY STRANGE CASE.

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At ReeftoTi last week a' young "mani; who gave 'the.'name of Albert E. LindwallgV was arrested on a charge of/disobeying; an order for maintenance issued at Auck-. land in 1909, the allegation'being; that hie: real name was, Robert Gibbs, and that, he was an,ex-member of the police force,): The identity of accused was \ sworn. to' by a. constable, who-said.he; knew accused."at the depot. Accused swore that he.was • never in New Zealand until 1910, "cut the.' justices of the peace' remanded ;the case' to Auckland: "_■■- ~" \ ■:•.■,'.'• '■ "■■• ■. v .-:y.-' : '■'■''■ -; ■'■-

• While Lindwall,,was. being brought by ;■.; the Arahura from Greymouth '■'■ to Wellington ho jumped overboard from ,the vessel at Westport, and when was ; removed to tho hospital there, asihe.was' in a state of temporary collapse..'.; i , , :'■ On Sunday merning he arrived in Wei-., lington by.the Mapourika; ; 'ahd half ia ' dozen policemen,;who "had served with;! Gibbs in' the detiotj state that LindwioU'.-'; is not Gibbs.,"'l'hese witaesses-included . one m an' who for: three months occupied : a room'with Gibbs, and on account-of the., positive' -statements : 'of, .'the.: -witnesses.!," Lindwall might : possibly have been' dis- : charged '.from", custody here,; but he pre- : ; ferred.to go on to Auckland .to clear matter up there. . .-..' ",•(; '■^■.^■:"~\