ADMIRAL’S WIFE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 May 1941, Page 8

ADMIRAL’S WIFE

TRIAL AT OLI) BAILEY ACQUITTAL BY A JURY London, May 8. After a five days' trial, heard in camera at the Old Bailey, Dr Christabel Nicholson (retired). was acquitted of charges of obtaining and recording information which might directly or indirectly be useful to an enemy. Dr Nicholson was committed from Bow street Police Court two months ago. according to the prison calendar, and had been in custody for a year. The jury of 12 included two women, and as famous counsel argued the case —Sir William Jowitt for the Crown and Sir Patrick Hastings for the defence—stringent precautions were taken to keep the proceedings secret. Only police, people connected with the case, city aldermen and sheriffs were allowed into the Court, the doors of which were locked and guarded. The glass panels were blacked out. Dr Nicholson, a tall slight woman, well known in London medical circles, was attached to the Charing Cross Hospital for a time, and was also assistant London County Council medical officer for another period. Her husband was in Court when the verdict was delivered and later said: “I have nothing to say about the matter.”