Show officially dead A curious incident occurred in an english police court recently where a man named travis vias as sentenced to a 9 month s imprisonment for obtain ing a postal order by false pretenses he pleaded that he was officially dead and his story was that when with the british army in south at af rica he deserted obtained some clothes from the kaffits made his may ft ay to the coast and worked his pass a age 9 e home he then discovered that he was reported dead and though he subsequently gave himself up as a deserter the war office gave an official assurance assur ince that he had died at the front and would not arrest him |