ESPIONAGE IN U.S.A.
30 YEARS FOR AIR-RAID WARDENS New York, Sept. 28 Two former Statens Island air-raid wardens, Ernest Lebmitz and Erwin de Spretter, were sentenced, to 30 years’ imprisonment for espionage. Lehmitz sent military information to Germany by means of invisible ink to persons in Spain and Portugal. Federal Judge Byers said the defendants continued to send such information for four months after the United States declared war against Germany but none reached its destination because they were intercepted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For that reason he did not impose the death sentence.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 232, 1 October 1943, Page 3
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