AN IMPOSTOR.
OABLE NEWS
AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURER. ARRESTED IN AMERICA. United Press Association, Copy-right LONDON, Nov. 24. The “Mail’s” New York correspondent states that Montetiore Myers, a fashionably-dressed Jew, from Australia, giving London as his place of residence, lias been arrested .at Pittsburg on tlie ground of larceny. He pretended that lie represented- the Rothschilds, intending to invest £40.000,000. He was introduced into the best circles. He is charged with stealing lumber/ bonds, also with having failed to pay a deposit on an oil option. Ho describes the charges as based on perjury. Myers was for two months an honored guest of Pittsburg magnates. He was feted at civic functions. Many familiar letters and portraits from princes and eminent women were found in his possession.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2358, 26 November 1908, Page 5
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124AN IMPOSTOR. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2358, 26 November 1908, Page 5
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