London, Apr. 2.
Charged with intent to murder, Trooper Andrew Vanderburg, of the 12th Royal Lancers, was sentenced at the Old Bailey yesterday to ten years" penal servitude, while his 16-year-old companion, Reginald Eddie Kaye, was Ordered to Borstal for three year Both the judge and the jury paid a tribute to the courage of the two police officers who accomplished the arrest of the troopers and were wounded in doing so.
According to the story told by the prosecution, both soldiers had decided io desert on February 28, when they took two revolvers and 23 rounds of Singapore, Apr. 2.
Wreckage, believed to be that of the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's monoplane, "Lady Southern Cross," lost without trace somewhere between India and Singapore on a record-attempting flight in 1935. has been found on Aye Island, Surma, by an Australian, Mr. J, D. Hodder, of Kanbank, Burma, It near Aye Island that a rub ani wheel, definitely identified by the Lockheed Aviation Corporation as coming from the Lady Southern Cross, were found last year Mr. Hodder has found steel cockpit moulding end quantity of aircraft duralumin in deep water at the foot of a cliff.—Re ammunition.
In their struggles with the two policemen who arrested them at Barking, Essex, on March 1, the men fired nine rounds. They were only overpowered after determined resistance, After the jury's verdict, the police gave evidence that Vanderberg had received sentences for theft in Canada and also a life sentence in Seskatoon for robbing a bank and shooting with intent to murder. Sixteen years of the life sentence had been served.
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