ESPIONAGE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16492, 6 March 1914, Page 7

ESPIONAGE.

SUPPOSED GERMAN SPIES

GOULD’S ANTECEDENTS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 4,

Frederick. and Maud Gould, arrested last week on charges of espionage, have been remanded till March 11.

Mr Bodkin, K.C., stated that a letter in Gould’s letter-book to a correspondent in 1903 showed that his real namo was Schroeder. He fought in the Franco-German war, and had visited most parts of Europe as a member of the Secret Service for a foreign Power. Mr Bodkin remarked that Gould had been a spy in Great Britain for many years. Ho had told a former schoolfellow that ho was an agent of the German Government. Letters in his letter-book proved that he had been paid money for naval secrets. One contained a request for two hundred marks. (Received March 6, 12.35 a.m.) LONDON, March 5. Mr Bodkin stated that an official chart of Spithead', drawings relating to the engineroom arrangements of a battleship, also a gunnery book, were found in Gould’s possession. THE ARRESTS. At the previous hearing the detectives by whom the accused were arrested gave evidence that they saw the female prisoner enter the Continental express at Charing Cross Station just before the departure of the train for Dover. They took her into custody, and upon searching her effects found three ’large envelopes underneath a rug. As the woman was stepping out of the cab in which she had been driven to the police station, 6ho was seen to throw some pieces of paper on to the pavement. The fragments were picked up, and after they had been pieced together the namo of Petersen could be.deciphered. Tho envelopes contained documents relating to tho Navy. The male.prisoner was arrested in a house, and here also the detectives discovered other documents referring to the Navy with some correspondence of an incriminating character. The woman, when charged, said, “1 don’t understand the use of the papers; I have done nothing. I had no idea of the contents of the packages. I was going to take them to Ostend, and then to Brussels. I tore up the address.”

The male prisoner, in answer to the charge, said, “I’m the guilty party; the woman doesn’t know what she went for.”