ALLEGED CONSPIRACY
AMERY’S ASSOCIATES CHARGED JOINED THE “ FREE CORPS ” LONDON, Jan. 2. Five men, who, it is alleged, conspired with John Amery to assist the enemy by joining the “British Free Corps” in Germany, were charged at Bow Street. They are Kenneth Edward Berry. 20, of Cornwall; Alfred Vivian Minchin. 28, of Surrey; Herbert George Rowlands, 37, of Westminster: Ronald David Barker, alias Voisey, 32, a seaman with no address: Dennis John Leister, 23, of Camden Town. Mr H. A. K. Morgan, prosecuting, said that all except Berry had been in a prisoner-of-war camp for seamen in Germany. Berry, who was in another camp, had been visited by Amery. who persuaded Berry to join the “Free Corps.” Berry later visited the seamen’s camp to recruit others. Minchin. who was previously persuaded to join the corps ,by a man named Cooper, who had since been committed for trial, accompanied Berry on. the recruiting trip. Mr Morgan said Barker had made a statement claiming to be an Australian whose ship was sunk by the Admiral Scheer in February, 1941. and claiming that he was captured.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 5
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183ALLEGED CONSPIRACY Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 5
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