Appeal Against Spy Ring Sentence Allowed in Canada
(Rec. 9.5). TORONTO, June 28. The Ontario Appeals Court allowed the appeal of Harold Samuel Gerson, of Montreal, against his conviction on charges of espionage, and quashed the five year sentence imposed on him on October 11, 1946. The Court stated that the granting of the appeal was based on a legal technicality, and k was without prejudice to the right of the Crown to prefer a new indictment, as it may be advised. Gerson is the tenth to be acquitted of an original eighteen charged following the discovery of a Russian spy ring in Canada.
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Grey River Argus, 30 June 1947, Page 5
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