WASHERWOMAN’S ERROR
LED TO BRITISHER'S ARREST
CATCTTPOOL NOW RELEASED. (U P. A. by Elec. Tel Copyright) (Roc. April 5, 7.30 p.m.) : : • • BERLIN, April 4. The Britisher, R. C. Catchpool, international secretary to the Society of Friends, who was arrested by the police, has been released, as he is not suspected of trying to evade trial nor of hiding evidence. Air. 'Catch pool's arrest was due to a washerwoman, who jumped to the conclusion that bundles of leaflets and pamphlets in English must be ons, although she could not read them The Nazis found copies of his reports to England on the situation in Germany, hut the contents had never .been disclosed outside Quaker circles. Geoffrey Fraser, the British subject who was alleged to he a Communist, was arrested not by the pohcK hut hv Hitler Storm Troops.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11913, 6 April 1933, Page 5
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