HELPED THE ENEMY
BRITISH OFFICIAL GUILTY SIX YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT GERMAN WOMAN’S INFLUENCE (Official Wireless) (Received July 17, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, July 10 After a secret trial William Gaskell Downing, an Air Ministry examiner, was sentenced at Manchester to six years’ imprisonment for making sketches useful to the enemy, in the form of photographs of an aeronautical inspection badge and an Air Ministry pass permit to enter certain premises. Evidence was given that Downing was an engineer of great skill. He lived happily with his wife and his character was unblemished till his association with a German girl, Lucia Strauss.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21167, 17 July 1940, Page 7
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