Flair for Impersonation Costs Itinerant 3 Years SALT LAKE CITY. A 41-year-old itinerant who forsook several legitimate legiti-mate occupations for the more adventurous ad-venturous and lucrative one of impersonation will have three years in federal prison to resign himself to living a down-to-earth existence. James T. Barrett, Wisconsin native, na-tive, wandered through Alaska and the West as a refrigeration specialist, special-ist, logging superintendent, surveyor . and mining engineer before he became be-came fascinated with the idea of assuming a multiple" personality. Since then, witnesses testified in federal fed-eral court here, Barrett mulcted banks,' business firms and farmers of thousands of dollars by posing variously as a government surveyor, survey-or, government engineer and a retired re-tired army captain. He received five concurrent, three-year three-year terms.