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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2373, 25 October 1880, Page 4

A plausible scoundrel received bis deserts in the Dunedin Police Court on Thursday. He gave the name of .Michael Lazarous with aliases innumerable. He first of all went to Dr Ferguson and represented himself as a relation of the doctor’s who had run away from England. He said he was desirous of returning home by the Waimea, which sailed on Oct. 20, and would require some clothes and means for the journey. These were immediately forthcoming and the supposed relative went away rejoicing. He next went to Mrs Pyke and gave out that he was a relation repeating the same story about his career. After receiving the gifts he went and sold them, spending the money in drink and gambling. The | Bend) sentenced him to three months imprisonment on each charge the sentences to run concurrently. Another “ error of judgment.” A Wellington barmaid was recently compelled to pay a visit to Amberley, in Canterbury, and there undergo the stigma of being accused before a police magistrate of having “deserted her child and left it without means of support,” simply because her name happened to be the same as that given by the real offender to the person with whom the child was left. The “New Zealand Times ” remarks “ Why the summons should have been served upon this person, who is so well known in Wellington, does not appear clear.”