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may give you something. Any change of address 

 you can forward to me, but do not trouble further 

 unless your character -is unquestionable. Yours 

 truly [here follows an address in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Clapham]. P.S. — You must under- 

 stand if you have to go to Holland it is a very quiet 

 place." 



4 Enclosed was a note requesting Mr. to 



"kindly allow Mr. to subscribe for a half-year 



for the ' Practical Turfite' on ordinary terms.'" 



The next was a police court case, and, but for 

 the imagination which the vulgar rascal displayed in 

 the concoction of a bogus will, might have been 

 passed over unnoticed. But in respect of that auda- 

 cious exploit the exploit was uncommon, ranking in 

 fiction with Captain Kearney in ' Peter Simple,' who 

 * made his will and devised sundry chateaux en 

 Espagne for the benefit of those concerned,' and, in 

 fact, with ' pore Sir Roger ' (an impostor not alto- 

 gether unknown in Hampshire), who invented and 

 placed the estates to which he declared he was the 

 rightful heir in the wrong counties. 



1 Robert Boorer, twenty-five, alias James Porter, 

 a young man who was employed as a groom and 

 a coachman by a music-hall agent, was charged 

 at the Westminster Police Court, before Mr. 

 D'Eyncourt, with obtaining money by fraud and 

 false representations from Henry Pope, an omnibus 

 conductor, and others. The wife of Pope deposed 

 that in the early part of 1888 the prisoner was 

 a lodger in her husband's house in Dorset Place, 

 Pimlico. He said his name was Porter, and repre- 

 sented himself as the nephew of Mr. John Porter, 

 the racehorse trainer of " Newmarket." In the 



