DEATH SENTENCE.
WOMAN GUILTY OF TREACHERY.
SEVERAL OFFENCES COMMITTED. (Received This Day, 1. .5 p.m.). LONDON, Decemebr 17. Mr Justice McNaughten, at the Hampshire Assizes, sentenced to death Dorothea Pamela O’Grady, aged 42, described as a housewife, under the Treachery Act, Official Secrets Act, and the Defence Regulations. The case was heard in camera. O’Grady was found guilty of making a plan in the Isle of "Wight likely to assist the military operations of the enemy, also with cutting a military telephone wire with the object of impeding the military operations of His Majesty’s Forces. She was also found guilty of approaching a prohibited place and making a second plan which might have been useful to the enemy, and with possessing a document containing information, purporting to reveal defence measures.
Mr Justice McNaughten said: “On evidence which admits of no doubt, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of treachery, for which reason the law prescribes hut one sentence.” O’Grady heard the sentence unmoved.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 58, 18 December 1940, Page 6
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