3-052-525 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Election Sketches: the fate of a personator, 1880. 'The old crime of "personation," however, by the fraud of coming up to claim the registered franchise of another man, is still of possible occurrence. It has been made a felony, punishable with as much as two years' imprisonment and hard labour on the treadmill. So base an act is deserving, indeed, of some considerable penalty; and "the fate of a personator," led off by the police to durance vile, as he appears in one of our Artists' Sketches, will not excite much compassion'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.