QUISLING TO DIE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21816, 12 September 1945, Page 6

QUISLING TO DIE

JUDGES’_VERDICT TENSE EXCITEMENT ESCAPE ATTEMPT STORY LONDON, Sept. 10. Vidkun Quisling has been sentenced to death, on being found guilty of helping the enemy, trying to change the constitution unlawfully and attempting to bring Norway under a foreign country. The presiding judge in the Quisling trial announced that the seven judges unanimously found Quisling guilty of breaches of both the military and civil codes. Quisling was calm but deadly pale when the sentence was read. He has appealed to the Higher Court, whose verdict is expected within three weeks

Verdict day in the tiffin opened in tense excitement after a report that Quisling supporters last light had tried to organise his escape. Reuter’s correspondent in Oslo says that, according to one of Quisling’s guards, the police captured three supporters wearing Swedish uniforms and carrying false passports in the gaol where Quisling was held. Military police to-day minutely searched the courthouse before the judges and jury filed in. The court was packed to capacity.

The chief .judge after announcing the sentence, said Quisling’s entire fortune valued at about £60,000, would be confiscated