FIVE YEARS' GAOL
YOUNG OFFICER’S CRIME INFORMATION FOR ENEMY LONDON, April 13. Lieut. Norman Baiilie-Btowart, of the Seaforth Highlanders, has been cashiered and sentenced to live years’ penal servitude for breaches of the Official Secrets Act. His Majesty the Kipg confirmed the sentence. A War Office communique says the court found Lieut. Baillie-Stewart guilty on the first, second, fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth charges. His Majesty confirmed the findings on the second, fourth and ninth charges, obtaining and collecting and communicating information which might bo useful to an enemy for a purpose prejudicial to the State, but withheld confirmation of the remainder, relating to only subsidiary incidents, and to the same transactions.
After the announcement Lieut. Baillie-Stewart, in civilian clothes, and seated between two officers in mufti, was driven out of tho Tower of London to Wormwood Scrubs prison. to become a civilian prisoner subject to the usual routine. He will probably go thence to the convict prison at Maidstone.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 7
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