THE TOWER PRISONER.
Officer of Seaforths Cashiered
From Army
GUILTY ON SEVEN CHARGES
LONDON, April 14.
Lieutenant Norman Baillie-Stewart, of the Seaforth Highlanders, has been cashiered from the Army and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. His Majesty has confirmed the sentence. A War Office communique says the court-martial found Baillie-Stewart guilty on seven charges. His Majesty confirmed its findings on three of them, namely, obtaining, collecting and communicating information which might be useful to an enemy for a purpose prejudicial to the State, but withheld confirmation of the remainder, which related only to subsidiary incidents, and the same transactions. After the announcement of the sentence Baillie-Stewart, in civilian clothes, seated between two officers in mufti, was driven from the Tower of London to Wormwood Scrubbs gaol. He becomes a civilian prisoner subject to the usual routine. Probably he will go from Wormwood Scrubbs to the convict prison at Maidstone.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 7
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