Major Roy Farran, 26-year-old British Army officer, who was being held on “serious charges” in connection with the disappearance last month of 17-year-old Alexander Rubovitz, an alleged Sternist, escaped last night from the Allenby detention barracks here. He was still at large this evening.
Police authorities have asked neighboring countries to be on the look-out for Farran, and border patrols have been alerted. The young army officer had been loaned to the police by the military authorities, and held the rank of assistant super-intendent of police. He was extradited this week from Syria, to where he fled last month, and had been turned over to the army for court martial. Farran was identified last Wednesday by three eye-witnesses as one of the men who abducted young Rubovitz.
Private L. S. McKenzis, who fired a sub-machinegun into a crowded Jerusalem street last March 11, during an altercation with a Jewish bus driver, was today found not guilty of the murder of Eather Tuvi, 19, who was killed by a stray bullet. The court martial, however, convicted him on charges of manslaughter.
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