STRANDED ADVENTURER.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 81, 13 March 1924, Page 7

STRANDED ADVENTURER.

j STOWAWAY’S STIRRING LIFf I

London, Feb. 24.

Leon Cody, ti sow of Colonel F. S. Cody, a noted avaitor, onO of tile real beginners of flight as it is now understood, and who was killed while flying, has fallen on evil days, and appeals for employment in any part of the world.Leon was born in Texas and joined u

“Wild West” show. I He experimented with his father in man-lifting kites, and subsequently in aeroplanes at Farnborough, His father’s estate went to Leon’S mothe:, who is still living at Farnborough. He. was doing a music hall shooting act, with his wife, in 1913, but broke a contract returning £49 u week tu join the navy for the wa«. He was* demobilised in 1919, but wag refused aircraft work in England because was uu American, and wan unemployed for three yearn. Then he went to West Australia under the ex officers’ otheme. In 1922 he was timber getting at Nannuo ut 25s a week, and ohut kangaroos fur sustenance. Falling into debt, he stowed away from Fremantle .and has been unemployed since, his return. He appealed to the King, who has commanded Colonel Clive Wigram his assistant private secretary ,to interest the Obi cers’ Association in Cody’s case.