A LIFE OF THRILLS
JURY IMPRESSED BY RECITAL.
(DNITJU) PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIGHT.)
(AUSIEALIAIi-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 20th. May. The. remarkable career.of Charles Alfred Gardiner was described at his trial on a charge, inter alia, of obtain.ing a cheque for £200,000 by false pretences from the Gardiner Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. After a retired Rear-Admiral had testified as to Gardiner's courage and' integrity, and the fact that he had commanded a mystery ship in war time, Gardiner went into the witness-box, and said he went to Paris at the invitation of Abd-el-Krim to try to arrange peace between the Biffs and the Spaniards. He afterwards made several trips to Morocco. He laid all the mines at Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War. He commanded a Chilian warship during the Chilian revolution, and made plans for blocking Zeebrugge and Ostend harbours. He invented non-cuttable submarine nets, and a locking system for mines and anti-submarines. Ha was wounded nine times.
The jury interrupted the cross-exam-ination by saying they had heard enough, and brought in a verdict of not guilty. Gardiner was discharged.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 22 May 1925, Page 7
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179A LIFE OF THRILLS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 22 May 1925, Page 7
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