CHARGE OF ESPIONAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 5

CHARGE OF ESPIONAGE.

CASE OF THE GOULDS. tit EIiEOTKIO TeLEGUAPH —COPYBiGHTj [UnITKD PfiEBB A8»OOIArtO«.j i Received 8.55 a.m.) London, March 4.

The Goulds, who were arrested foi espionage, were remanded till the 11th inst.

Mr Bodkin, K.C., stated that a letter in Gould's letter-hook to a correspondent in 1903 showed that his real nam*; was Schweder, who had fought in the Franco-German war and had visited most parts of Europ-J as a member of a secret service for a foreign Power. Mr Bodkin remarked that Goidd was a spy in Britain for many years. He told a former school fellow that he was agent for the German Government. Letters in his letter-hook proved there had been payment of money and also a request for two hundred marks.