Failing to Enrol.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 25 October 1917, Page 4

Failing to Enrol.

A — '' ABSOLUTELY THE GREATEST LIAR." At Christchurch last "week a young man named George William Hudsc_; appeared before Mr T. A. B. Bailey , S.M., charged with failing to enrol under the Military Service Act, and with assuming a name other than that by which he was known on November 1, 1915. Hudson was described as aged 30.

"When formally charged, accused showed an inclination to admit everything. He was asked by the Magistrate if he had any reasons for not enrolling. "Well, your Honour, "said he, "I have been examined twicc and turned down. I have no objection to going, and, with your Honour's permission, 1 would be very glad to go to the front. I have never been in a court before."

The accused added that he had sent in his papers, and was at a loss to know what had become of them.

"Unfortunately," said Sub-Inspector Mullaney, '' this is absolutely the greatest liar I think I have ever met. He has shifted around, changing his name from Hudson to Barnard, Chapman and Leonard." He came under police notice in 1910 in Auckland, where he picked up with an unfortunate girl, who had been living with him as his wife. He had told her that he was connected with Fullers', and had brought her down to get her on the stage. On Satyrday he told the police that he was a married man with two children in Victoria. Later he stated that he was married and had three children somewhere else. Finally he said that the girl was his wife. She had now gone back to her parents.

"That is enough," said the Magistrate. "He is sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to run conearretitly."