NOT A REAL SPY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21190, 10 November 1938, Page 4

NOT A REAL SPY

ADMITTED TO PROBATION By releetHpb -prew rAssoclatloD AUCKLAND, November 9. Alan Desmond Brennan was not a real spy but he played a game cf espionage at the Devonport Naval Dockyard on the night of October 13 so effectively that he was detained in the Naval Guard Room, and handed to police later. The police seized plans, sketches, and reports together with promises of further “secrets,” which Brennan had prepared for his “principals,” principals held by the Magistrate, Mr Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court to-day to exist only in the imagination of Brennan. It was shown that he was a waiter, aged 20 years, whose home was in Wellington. Brennan was admitted by the Magistrate to probation for a year after he pleaded guilty to a charge of being found without lawful excuse on the enclosed premises of the Naval Base Dockyard. "The only reason I can think for going to the Naval Base,” said Brennan, “and sketching these plans was that I thought I could show off a bit, and perhaps try to Impress someone as a secret service agent. I had no one in particular in mind. I have never thought of doing such things before."