DEATH SENTENCE
ENGINEER'S TREACHERY Rec. noon. LONDON, May 8. George Johnson Armstrong, 39, an engineer, was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey after a trial in camera for an offence under the Treachery Act. This is the fifth death sentence under the Treachery Act, the others being three aliens and Mrs. O'Grady.
Mrs. O'Grady was sentenced, on! February 10, by the Court of Criminal Appeal sitting in camera, to 14 years' imprisonment on capital charges under the Treachery Act. She had in December, 1940, been sentenced to death under the Treachery Act, the Official Secrets Act and Defence Regulations. Accused was then charged with making a plan in the Isle of Wight likely to assist the military operations of the enemy and also cutting a military telephone wire with the, object of impeding the military j operations of His Majesty's forces. •
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 108, 9 May 1941, Page 7
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