BAILLIE-STEWART CASE
PUBLIC CONTROVERSY RAGING.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) London, May 10. The Baillie-Stewart case continues to excite a public controversy, the father and mother being convinced that there has been a miscarriage of justice. The Daily Express is publishing, further letters to Baillie-Stewart’s solicitor allegedly from Marie Louise and Obst, a German agent, in which Obst says he is too busy to come to London and clear Baillie-Stewart. Marie Louise states that for the sake of her family she cannot reveal her identity.
Lieutenant Norman Baillie-Stewart was cashiered and sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. Tire War Office communique stated that the Court found 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 of obtaining, collecting and communicating information which might be useful to an enemy for the purpose prejudicial to the State, but withheld confirmation of the remainder relating only to subsidiary incidents and the same transactions. After the announcement, Baillie-Stewart in civilian clothes and seated between two officers in mufti, was driven out of the Tower to Wormwood Scrubbs to become a civilian prisoner, subject to the usual routine.
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Southland Times, Issue 22012, 11 May 1933, Page 7
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