NAVAL SECRETS.
AMERICAN EX OFFICER f CHARGED.
(Received Friday, 7.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 24. A Grand Jury indicted John Farnsworth, a former naval lieutenant on a charge of peacetime espionage in selling confidential information to Japan. It is alleged that the accused took a book entitled ’ * Service of Information and Supply” from the Navy Department and later sold it to a Japanese agent.
(A cablegram from Washington on July 14 stated that John 8. Farnsworth then described as a former lieutenanteommander in the United States Navy had been arrested, after long surveillance, and charged with selling naval information to the Japanese Government. On being arraigned, he pleaded not guilty and was sent to gaol, due to his inability to supply ten thousand dollars bail. Farnsworth, who was discharged from the service nine years ago on charges of conduct prejudicial to the service, was said to be interested aviation while in the Navy.)
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Wairarapa Age, 25 July 1936, Page 5
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