HELPING THE ENEMY
WOMAN TYPIST SENT TO PRISON BUGBY, Feb. 9. "In the country whose interests you serve this charge would be punished by death. In this country it is not so. The sentence of the court is that you go to penal servitude for 10 years." In these words the judge at Old Bailey addressed a 36-year-old woman typist, Irma Stapledon, who was found guilty of four offences under the Defence Regulations. The judge said: "You have been found guilty, first, of doing certain acts with intent to assist the enemy—namely, Germany—in that you obtained certain articles of munitions and information regarding them with intent that they should reach the enemy; secondly, of association with a certain person whom you believed to be engaged in assisting the enemy; thirdly, of communicating to another person certain information which might be useful to the enemy; and, fourthly, of obtaining certain information in respect to certain munitions of war."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24838, 11 February 1942, Page 5
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