A CLEVER ACTOR

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 17 January 1890, Page 4

A CLEVER ACTOR

Ths Lo.ndo^co^respoadeht of.jth , Argus |pDrt|:rtbaV Dr Murray Uomau Catholic jftsbop of AJaitland, N. S. W., liaa an unpleasant adventure in Rome At thn Minerva Hotel, the headquarters of Englishspeaking visitors , to that city, he made the acquaintance of a young and handsome ecclesiastic rejoicing in the aristocratic title of Monsignore le Prince Delatour D'Auvergne, Domestic Prelate to His Holiness . the Pope. They appear to have become remarkably Jriencjlv, and the Australian Bishop netfer entertained the remotest suspicion that his charming. companion was' any other than he represented himself to be, but one morning as they were walking together in the vicinity of the Propagada an •agepl tnV police approached, and to the horror of the Bishop of Maitland arrested Monsig--nore, and marched him off to prison, where he made full confession of i his daring imposture, and declared that his real name was Michael Hallins, the son of poor people nfc Mauville s France. As a student of the priesthood he was sent to the College of the Trappist Fathers at Verfcagos, and there, by means of false keys, he succeeded in stealing 2,600 florins from the treasury of that institution, besides a gold watoh and, chain and other unconsidered trifles. Tnen he fled to Marseilles and assumed his present style "ftndj titter and with reckless audacity jifcod^edtd to Rome and rain. After a judicial examination he was returned to his cell, and a few hours afterwards the vyardei on duty found ■llimi^ead, Strangled by his own hands. Me was only 22 j'ears of age bit he ncfc'd liie assumed part si well as lo completely d-ceive Roman ecc'esiast 'es of high -rafikt-.iU'-j attditipn t) \t\ie Australian P^diiy -i-i iMo mbvo nndicious imposturo has bo n <liscoyerel i.y ijWitiiiifiu:** :Sam ' i^hop' was det^c'od. .uind . . .i«m<iriiiii«nslv turned 9 .tQi^ht Council in 1870.