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'CONTEMPTIBLE FRAUDS*
DESERTER MASQUERADING AS
CAPTAIN.
''A long scries of contemptible frauds,'
remarked the Magistrate at Westminster
when sentencing to six months' hard
?s;bour a man named Thomas Webb, 30,
?who had been masquerading as a captain
?since February. He appeared in the dock
in the uniform of a captain of Lord
£tratheona's Horse. Although a deserter
»rcm tlie istu v.ouniy oi uuiiuun iw^i
?ment. he passed him&elf off as 'Captain
Claude Hayes Seymour.'
He was charged- with givjng false lnfor
?mation for registration purposes, and with
/clsely representing himself as an officer,
with decorations to which he was not
*? Inspector Collins, of Scotland Yard, said ;'
,the prisoner engaged apartment* at War
flick Street, Pinilico, with a lady whom
.he described as his wife, registering her aa
.Tjch, and himself as 'Captain Seymour.
Xot only was he a deserter since Decem
ber 'asr,' but he Tras a convicted thief, and
.had associated with -women, whom he de
.c-eived. \\~hca arrested he was wearing
wound stripes, Service badges, and many
eibbon decorations, to not one of which he
»vas in any wav entitled.
After being sentenced a well-dressed
female asked that she might have an in
terview with prisoner.
The ?Magistrate— One of the -women he
.has been deceiving! No, I don't think
ot is desirable. ?
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