GERMAN’S WIDOW
SENTENCED FOR ESPIONAGE. LONDON, May 16. Jessie Jordan, a* the High Court, Edinburgh, pleaded guilty to being in communication with German agents, and making a plan of a prohibited place, and obtaining information relative to coastal defence between Montrose and Kirkcaldy. She was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. ' Counsel for the defence said that Jordan married a German who died from injuries in the war. She received several remittances, but no substantial amounts. She was not animated by hostility or illwill to Britain, but felt that nationality now meant nothing to her.
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Grey River Argus, 18 May 1938, Page 10
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