AFTER MANY YEARS.
The London "Gazette" says:—"His Majesty has restored Lieutenant-Colonel Stockall, of the Middlesex Volunteer Rifle. Corps, his rank and decorations, which were cancelled in 1909."
The announcement recalls the sensational affair of 1904, when LieutenantColonel Stockall, who was managing! director of a firm of wholesale jewellers, stated that two ruffians entered tho warehouse, overpowered, bound, and gagged him at the revolver point, and rifled the safes, stealing £3122 worth of jewellery. Lieutenant-Colonel Stockall received £2000 insurance. The mystery of Lieutenant-Colonel Stockall's assailants was not solved until 1909, when Lieutenant-Colonel Stockall was arrested and sentenced to nine months in the second division. The "War Office declined Lieutenant-Colonel Stockall's sen-ices at the outbreak of the war. He failed to enlist owing to his age, and took up a clerkship in tho Army "ay Oorps tinder an assumed name. He was recommended for a commission, but thenar Office discovered his identity and refused' it. His Majesty, in January, granted him a fre® pardon.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16168, 23 March 1918, Page 10
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162AFTER MANY YEARS. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16168, 23 March 1918, Page 10
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