"NO CRIMINAL INTENT."
♦ THE iVAY.VI. SI'X'HKTS CASE. Received February 14, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, Fob. 13. Richard Sidney Knowlden, drauglitsman on H.M.s. Vornon, arrested on a charge of removing from the ship plans, sketches ami portions of the naval wireloss telegraphic system, has l>eoit released oil his own sureties. The court was satisfied that there was no criminal intent. The original charg' was of stealing one wireless telegraph receiver, valued at £5, the pro|>erty of the Admiralty, from H.M.s. Yenum, on December 17, and under the Oflirial Secrets Act with having on divers dates in 15)08 and 190S), up to and including December 17, unlawfully obtained certain documents, plans, models, and sUi'tclios of apparatus connected with wireless telegraphy, for the purpose of wrongfully obtaining secret information.
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Mataura Ensign, 14 February 1910, Page 3
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125"NO CRIMINAL INTENT." Mataura Ensign, 14 February 1910, Page 3
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