“CAPTAIN ” BARKER
FALSE STATEMENT TO REGISTRAR. . . A VERDICT OF GUILTY. (United Press Association.! ■ (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, April 24. (Received April 25, at 7 p.m.) “Captain” Barker was found guilty of .signing a false, statement to the register of marriages. She will be sentenced to-morrow. The amazing career of a woman who posed for years as an army officer under •the name of Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Barker, was one of the leaders of the National Fascist! in London, who ran a West End restaurant, and was then employed as a reception clerk in a big West Eend hotel, was revealed by her arrest for contempt for failing to appear at a bankruptcy examination. The cap. tain was taken to Brixton Gaol, the men’s prison, w’here. her secret was revealed. When' taken to Brixton she broke down and stammered: *“I am a woman.” The gaol authorities immediately transferred her to the women’s prison at Holloway. Later it was re-, vealed that she had gone through the ceremony of marriage with a young Brighton woman, posing as a baronet.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20701, 26 April 1929, Page 11
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