MISTAKEN FOR A SPY.
An amazing case, in -which a Scottish lady Isabel Hoslring, was taken (or a Geniaa spy and attacked by a hostile crowd was heard before the Goole magistrates '-Mise' liosking stated, that sl»e was on a visit to Goole, mid, wMlst reading a naper on the bank of the river Don, a crowd «ime along, anionget them <belag the two defendants. One of them asked her whit was in Her Handbag. They aeensed Her of being "a German spy," and said "sSie was « wan dressed as a woman, and they ™mt t<, find out." lustlod and lim ßed her obont. and Her hair, wblci they HSd-Ui a wig, wa ß pulled down. THe chairman said defendants' conduct •Wα* diseacefi'l On e defendant wee fined £3, tncosts, the nwgiettate, exprewtoe «rm-
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 258, 28 October 1916, Page 15
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134MISTAKEN FOR A SPY. Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 258, 28 October 1916, Page 15
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