REVELATIONS IN DUBLIN COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 151, 27 June 1940, Page 8

REVELATIONS IN DUBLIN COURT.

PARACHUTE CASE.

Wireless Transmitter And Maps Found.

DIRECTOR IMPRISONED. TJnitoa. Press Association—Copyright. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 28." A special Criminal Court in Dublin sentenced Stephen Carroll Held, described as a company director, to five years' imprisonment on each of two charges under the Emergency Powers Act and also to three years' imprisonment for possessing- wireless transmitting apparatus, the sentences to ran concurrently. . . ...

The Prosecutor stated that, a code was allegedly found in Held's house and also a German Air Force cap, a swastika, some decorations, four maps, a telescope, a wireless transmitter and a telegraphic tapper. ' ■. . . .

Held allegedly declared that he knew nothing about tlie' transmitter, and also when asked to account for the parachute that was found he said he did not know what it was.

The Court postponed the trial of -Mrs. Iseult Conne Stuart, who was arrested at the same time as Held.

A cable received on May 25 stated that a used parachute, together .with a radio transmitting and receiving set and military equipment of German origin, were found by the police in a house.in the county of 'Dublin. ...

This; was" revealed in • a special Criminal Court when the occupier of the house was remanded on charges under the* Emergency Powers Act. The police raided the house on the night of Slay 22 and found also documents arid maps referring to Irish harbours, aerodromes, ..roads, .bridges, the disposition of the defence forces, the secret code and a box', containing 20,000 United States . dollars. ; The occupier, of the house Tiave .made ,a stater ment saying that a stranger came \ to, the house.on tnejiight of May.JO and asked to "be accommodated for a short period; and that the- stranger disappeared on May 22. ■ ■

A woniau,' later revealed to be Mrs. Stuart, the wife of Francis Stuart, the novelist, tvtio at the outbreak of the war was lecturer on English and Irish literature" at Berlin University, was also charged, under the Emergency Powers Act by a special military court.