FASCIST'S CRIME

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 16, 20 January 1936, Page 12

FASCIST'S CRIME

Frederick William Knowles, 36, stated to have* been a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's "personal bodyguard," who accompanied him on his visit to Signor Mussolini, was one of three men charged at the Old Bailey recently with conspiring to break and enter a restaurant, and with other offences. The case was a sequel to incidents in Sanctuary Buildings, the headquarters of the British Union of Fascists, in Great Smith Street, Westminster. Knowles, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy, to possessing housebreaking implements by night, and to breaking and entering, was bound over for two years, Captain Lewis, secretary of the British Union of Fascists, agreeing to be surety for him. George William Pitman, 43, political agent, was found guilty of conspiracy and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. Walter George Dent, 34, political agent, found not guilty of conspiracy and of breaking and entering, was discharged. It was stated that Knowles was a man of excellent character, who had got into debt through his association with Pitman.