ON TRIAL FOR ESPIONAGE
CAPTAIN STEWARTS CASE. NOT A RICH ARISTOCRAT. ■ By Telfgraph.—Tress Association.—Copyright. Berlin, February l. Extraordinary interest is being taken in the trial of Captain Bertrand Stewart for espionage. The president of the Court subjected Stewart to a singular examination regarding his friends and means, sug. gesting that he was a wealthy aristocrat. Stewart denied that he was a member of the "upper ten thousand," though he was a nephew of Lady Kensington. His income was £2300 a year. When at Oxford he belonged to the volunteers, and served in South Africa, where he acted as a cavalry scout, not as a spy. He did not ask his military superiors for leave to visit Germany. The prosecution allege that Stewart inspected the battleships building on the Weser and at Hamburg, and obtained exact details of one from four dockyard servants, afterwards arrested. It is further alleged that highly placed British officers had written compromising letters to Stewart, which were found in his luggage. Ex-Inspector of Police Reich received a sentence of 13 months at Essen for espionage. Max Schultz, the Britisher recently sentenced, was among the witnesses.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14906, 3 February 1912, Page 7
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