WOMAN’S DEATH SENTENCE

Grey River Argus, 19 December 1940, Page 3

WOMAN’S DEATH SENTENCE

SPYING ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT. LONDON, December 17. Justice McNaughton, at the Hampshire Assizes sentenced to death Dorothy Pamela O’Grady, 42, described as a housewife, under the Treachery Act, Official Secrets Act, and Defence regulations. She heard the sentence unmoved. The case was heard in camera.

She \ygs found guilty of making a plan in the Isje of Wight, likely to assist tjie military operations of the enemy, and also cutting a npiitarj 7 telephone wire with the object of impeding the military operations of J-lis Majesty’s forces. She was also found gyilty of approaching a prohibited place, making a seepnd plan, which might have beep useful to an enemy, and possessing a document containing information purporting to reveal defence measures.

Justice McNaughten sqid: “On the evidence, which admits no doubt, the jury returned a verdict of guilty ol treachery, for which reason, the law prescribes but one sentence.’’

Bpxer and Wife RELEASED IN BRITAIN TAus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received Dec. 17, 10 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. The Boxer, Joe Beckett and his wife have been released after being under detention under the Defence Regulations since last June. The woman, O’Grady, whose sentence was cabled earlier, is the first British woman ever to be sentenced to death ijr treachery.