ESPIONAGE CHARGE
AMERICAN FOR TRIAL
WASHINGTON, July 23. Closely following the case of Harry Thompson, a grand jury indicted John Farnsworth, a former naval lieutenant, on a charge of peace-time espionage in selling confidential information to Japan. It is alleged that the accused took a book entitled "The Service of Information and Supply" from the Navy Department and later sold it to a Japanese agent.
A Los Angeles cable on July 6 stated that Harry Thompson, a former United States navy yeoman, was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment on his conviction for conspiracy to sell secret navy information to an agent in Japan. He was considered to be the first peacetime spy caught in America. The Judge declared that the defendant's youth and the fact that he was "not of a criminal type," induced him not to impose the maximum sentence of 20 years' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 22, 25 July 1936, Page 6
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145ESPIONAGE CHARGE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 22, 25 July 1936, Page 6
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