WHOLESALE PERSONATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1602, 2 July 1887, Page 3

WHOLESALE PERSONATION.

It is stated in Sydney that wholesale impersonation was resorted to in the Parliamentary election lately when Mr Wise defeated Mr Traill. In the vicinity of Albion street, it is rumored, was a house with a large room devoted solely to the purpose of “turning them out.” Bound the room were dozens of different the “ old clo* ” shops of Paddy's Market having been cleared of the regimentals of impersonation. In one corner of the room was a heap of flour; in another a heap of charcoal and coal-dust; and in another a heap of fine tan bark,, The bribed personator would return from the booth a muddy-looking pipe-layer, when he would change his “ duds,” and by a move of the “ Committee ” would be changed into a baker or a miller, the crowd pelting him with flour; or into a stoker or coal-yard man, the crowd pelting him ? ith coal-dust, and so on. iiis said 1 Lnfc six or seven of these impersonates were turned out in relays every half-hour, and it is said that only for the swindle being discovered and put a stop to there might have been some 409 more bogus votes polled.