PROFESSOR SPY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

PROFESSOR SPY.

WOMAN ASSOCIATE

TRIAL REVEALS LOVE AFFAIR.

Sentence of fifteen years' Imprisonment was asked by the Crown at the trial at Rome of Professor Charles Eydoux of the Paris Polytechnic, accused of espionage. In addition, prosecuting counsel asked that Mile. Georgette Bonnefond, the professor's secretary, who admitted that she had been also his mistress for twelve years, should be sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. ■ The professor, however, was sentenced to live years and his secretary to three years and four As they had already been in prison live months awaiting trial, the professor, owing to a general amnesty of three years, will liave only a year and seven months to serve, Avliile Mile. Bonnefond was released. The trial was heard before a military tribunal presided over by Lieut.-General Antonino Tringalli-Casanuova. Pi'ofessor Eydoux is CT years or age, and he and Mile. Bonnefond, who were arrested near Tarvis, on the AustroItalian frontier, were accused of having ■'conspired together within the meaning of Article 257 of the penal code to procure

for the purpose of military espionage information which in the interest of the security of the State should remain secret." Arrest Secret. Theit arrest was kept secret for over four months. Professor Eydoux, who is an engineer, and who has specialised in road and bridge construction, confessed to the charge of espionage, andigave evidence that he performed the investigation for a high officer of the French Army whose name he refused to divulge. He was entrusted with reconnoitring the YugoslavItalian situation, and added that lie had made several trips to Italy for that purpose. He was asked by the Court if it were true that according to the French Army list he held rank as a Major-General. Professor Eydoux. with bowed head, replied "Yes." Mile. Bonnefond, who confessed that she had had a child by the professor, said she- was formerly secretary at the St. Cyr Military Academy (France's Sandhurst).