Show A BOGUS NOBLEMAN NOLE AN He Found the theE English glish Dead Easy and ad Fleeced M Many y of Them Tem London Cable to New N w York Journal Even the the axi can be b trapped by the tho bogus bogs nobleman and right light on his own heath heat too At the Clerken vell Sessions tho the other day Claude Montague Smith 63 65 6 steward pleaded guilty to obtaining money by means of false pretenses M ir lI H H C Biron Birn Instructed by the treas treasury treasury treasury ury gave jave an nn amusing account of the 1 prisoners experience He had masqueraded as a Sir Claude Montague Monta ue Smith and during the 1897 17 1895 18 and ISM 1801 lr he ho had been ben living by b fraud He had posed as a a man of or property who I was in reduced circumstances s but whose prospects s were brightening and it was one of his i practices gt too to draw up u wills m I leaving large lare sums of ot money In them to the people befriended him hi and I he Ito took great care that his Imaginary benevolence should reach the ears of those whose names were mentioned to inspire them wih with confidence so that ho lie intent fleece them further I In February 1899 1809 the prisoner went down to Saxmundham and antI lived with wih William Nisbet of at lark Gate Farm Stratford St Andrew He arrived arive there ther accompanied by b a valet and a pony pOn and tra tran The story of ot Sir Claude Montague 1 Smith spread like wildfire and the in ni inhabitants 1 habitants of Saxmundham sympathized s with wih the supposed gentleman of title tu I Their sympathy s In due course took a a ti practical shap shape Mr lr Nisbet advanced al altogether aLtogether together 50 5 and allowed his lodgers bill bili amounting to 25 to remain unpaid bU Sums of 30 80 15 and 30 50 3 were loaned him by other persons and an unfortunate ate laborer named Wicks W icks actually actual paid I I I Sir Claude Montague Smith a March week regularly 1100 from August Augst 1897 until After 1 z rt long time Mr a suspicions dons were q aroused by the spectacle of ol cons Sir Claude and his valet lighting one out another when both were Intoxicated A sort of family council assembled assemble to It consider consider the conduct of ot the prisoner he hc was severely cross and I finally ho admitted Uth Ht perfect frank frankness ness that he ho was a swindler His de do deluded deluded hearers were in favor of receiving what money mone Sir Claude had hatI about mm him binand I I and letting him go goHe goHe goHe He He put up 23 25 on the table and then ther I some one suggested that they should also alo have hao his horse and trap As s this be belonged b b longed to another an ther victim the prisoner made no demur and he was set at lio Ib his victims actually returning 10 to him aIm to get to London It was a year after these events that the bogus baronet was captured and then he boasted boute that when he left Sax saI mundham ihm iio ho had sovereigns hidden bidder I in his stockings He also admitted that thai while posing losin as a man of title tUe he lie was vial absolutely destitute of or all al means mans His own explanation ion of his offenses offense I was wasI I It was as the biter They tried to bite me but I bit them Ulem Stone Money Ioney came blo to me from all al sides unasked be because 0 because cause cau they all al thought I would put them In ray my will wl and In this way they would would get something out of the tue old oltI man mail |