POLITICS UNSUITABLE.
YOUTH WHO SPOOFED U.S
Everett Harding, America’s “Captain of Koeuenick,” 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 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-year-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 he had resigned a good job as tobacco expert to become head of a monthly magazine and a chain of “Harding sweet-shops, which the prisoner said the President wanted him to
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 an honest man.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2319, 23 August 1921, Page 4
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194POLITICS UNSUITABLE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2319, 23 August 1921, Page 4
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