COMEDY OF IDENTITY.
There was an amusing scene at a meeting of the Alien Immigration Board (London) on March i. Jonas Kuszemeikas, 23, a Lithuanian, applied for permission to land, and gave the namo of an alien in London as his , cousin. This gentleman duly appeafed ' before the board and said that, tlioui" ho had not seen the applicant for eighteen years, ho was quitp certain he recogniseu ' him as his cousin. ' 1 "But he was only five years old then ' it was pointed out. "I know; but I can recognise him :>s 1 my cousin," was tho reply. . The witness was then asked tho man's 1 name, and, to tho amusement of the 1 court, gavo that of another appellant. A second man appeared. Ho declared that; he was the uncle of tho appellant, and recognised him without any doubt. s The appollant, however, amid laughter, ( denied that the witness was his uncle, j and the man, under pressure, eventually j admitted that tho man was no relation. Tho board refused to let tlm man land. £ * t
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 3
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249COMEDY OF IDENTITY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 3
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