Second Edition. Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 92, 19 August 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. Great Britain

AMUSING CONTRETEMPS.

SOLDIER IMPERSONATOR COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. WOMAN DID NOT KNOW HER OWN HUSBAND. United Press Association. (Received 1.55 p.m.) London, August IS. A soldier was committed for trial at Manchester for impersonating Sergeant Dandy, who was fighting at the Dardanelles. Evidence was given that the pi isouer entered Mrs Dandy’s shop sobbing, and exclaiming: “Oh I’m pleased to get home to my wife and children.” Mrs Dandy accepted him as her husband, and lived with hitn for a week till relatives expressed doubts as to his identity. He explained that his altered appearance was caused hy tiie horrors of war, and the seriousness of his wounds, and he excused his lack of knowledge of Dandy’s home affairs hy stating that he had suffered from loss of memory. Soldiers who/fonght withJ)andy declared that prisoner was an impersonator. Mrs Hall,' of Penticroft, gave evidence that prisoner was her husband, who enlisted early in the year, and since had been training in North Wales. Mrs Hall, on leaving the Court,’ shouted: “It’s a caution when people do not know their own husbands. You’re as bad as he is! I should know my husband m a hundred 1” LABOR OFFICES RAIDED. \ \ i Received 1.55 p.m.)

. London, August. 18. Under the Defence of the Realm Act, the police raided the Labor leaders’ offices and examined the documents. The premises were also used as the offices of the independent Labour Party. f