ESPIONAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 37, 8 February 1912, Page 5

ESPIONAGE.

THE OPINION OF STEWART’S FATHER. JUDGE’S MOTIVES UNASSAILABLE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, February 7. Captain Stewart’s father, in a lettor to 4 The Times, n says that while he docs not wish to comment on the soundness of the Judges’ decision, he is profoundly convinced that the Judges’ motives were unassailable. Stewart deprecates the tendency to foment anti-German animosity over his son’s trial.

SHORT HISTORY OF STEWART’S ACCUSER.

A CHARACTERISTIC MOUCHARD

(Received 8, 9.15 a.m.) Loudon, February 7. The “Mail” states that Arsene Marie Verrue, the informer in the Stewart espionage case, was sentenced to eight mouths for robbery at Brussels, four years for robbing bis cousin at Ghent, fined at Courtrai for a violent assault on the manager of a Yorkshire brewery, at Brussels in 1905 he rforged and misappropriated money and abandoned his wife, and though not arrested, he was sentenced to two years. . A barrister of Brussels gave evidence on behalf of Stewart at Leipzig of the above convictions. Tlio cashier of the Yorkshire brewery declares that Verrue has a perfect knowledge of four languages, and lias plausible manners. ,He offered to act as Stewart’s interpreter.