HAD BEEN COMRADES

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1131, 20 June 1927, Page 6

HAD BEEN COMRADES

OFFICER’S PLEA FOR CONFIDENCE CROOK. BRAVE AND HONOURABLE. London. June 12. A sense of comradeship in arms prompted , Commander 0. LockerLampson' M.P. for Handsworth, who saw service witli armoured ears in France. Russia. Turkey, Persia, Rumania and Austria, to plead at the Marlborough Street Police Court for leniency for Frederick James, a confidence man, who, with Frank Grey, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for stealing £IOO from Edward Piotz, a Melbourne carrier. Commander Locker-Lampson testified tlrat James was his orderly when both were marooned in Lapland. They escaped from Russia, when the ice broke up and fought in Persia and Galicia. James, he said, was brave and honourable, and had baun twice decorated.