NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1921, Page 2

NEWS BY MAIL.

YOUTH WHO SPQOFED U.S. NEW YORK, June 6. Everett Harding, America’s ‘ Captain of Koepenick,” the youth who, by posing as a cousin of President Harding rode in a private railway-coach to Washington for the inauguration ceremonies was brought to trial yesterday in Chicago and sentenced to 15 months’ hard labour. As victims of his pretended relationship to the President told their tales of woe and disillusionment, a broad grin spread over the prisoner’s face. Little “Pearl” Harding, the pretty 13-vear old sister of Everett occupied a seat near him. Her photograph has repeatedly adorned the pages of the leading newspapers of the, country entitled “The White House Baby,” by virtue of her brother’s statement that the President and Mrs Harding had adopted her. A Chicago photographer testified to wasting £2OO on pictures of “Pearl”. A witness described how be had resigned a good job as tobacco expert to become head of a monthly magazine and a c hain of “Harding” sweet shops which the prisoner said the President wanted him te organise After sentence (Everett informed the Judge that he had intended to make polities, his life work but that he had found them unsuitable for ap honest man '