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ANOTHER SPY EXECUTED

... ANOTHER SPY EXECUTED. The Press Bureau issued the following statement on Friday afternoon:— A prisoner who was charged with espionage, and tried by court-martial at the Westminster Guildhall on August 20, was found auilty and sentenced to death. Thir ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Death to a Spy

... Death to a Spy. The hos!iital was a big house, and I was told it belonged to a German officer. and that was the reason it was nut struck. I saw a Berman spy being led away down the town. Ile bad been caught despatching pigeon.. He was yelling and shouttng ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1914
Newspaper: County Express
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1470 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MONUMENT TO A SPY

... MONUMENT TO A SPY. There is actually a spy buried in Westminster Abbey, and a monument erected to his memory by the British Government. This is the famous Major Andre, who was shot as a spy by George Washington for being within the American lines in disguise ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1914
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ARRESTED AS A SPY

... ARRESTED AS A SPY. In a small town I was arrested at nightfall just after crossing the wreck of the iron bridge that now lies sprawling in the river, blown up at either end. Ladders had been hung down the broken roadway to the water’s edge and planks ...

Published: Friday 29 January 1915
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE COST OF SPYING SYSTEMS

... than other countries find out ours. Russia spends the enormous sum of over £300,000 a year on her spy system; a large part of that sum, however, includes spying for anarchists. A German estimate of Russian losses is 1,100,000 prisoners and 300,000 casualties ...

SPY'S APPEAL DISMISSED

... SPY'S APPEAL DISMISSED. The appeal of the German, Milner, who was convicted at the Old Bailey of being a spy, and sentenced to be shot, was heard on Monday in the Court of Criminal Appeal, at the Law Courts, before Mr. Justice Darling, Mr. Justice Lawrence ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SPY SHOT IN LONDON

... SPY SHOT IN LONDON. On Friday afternoon the Press Bureau issued the following: %liar Office, September .10 It is officially announced thit a prisoner who was charged with enpionage, and tried by General Court-martial at the Westminster Guildhall on Auruat ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SPY-CATCHERS' MISTAKE

... SPY-CATCHERS' MISTAKE. For killing a man whoim they mistook for • German spy, but who was on his way to join the Connaught Rangers, two soldiers. named Babbitt and O'Neill.. of the Connaught Rangers, were sentenced at Westmeath Assiaes to twelve months' ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SHOOTING A SPY

... SHOOTING A SPY. When engaged in this dreadful duty the firing squad is paraded, and the rifles taken away from the men. They are then loaded in the background and returned to them. The reason this is obviour, since no one wishes that any fellow man should ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 295 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A WILY SPY

... A WILY SPY. Wellington had some very efficient spies in the Peninsula. Marbot tells how one night an Englishman dressed in officer's uniform, strolled into the French camp in Portugal, and at daybreak was seen coolly examining everything. Taken before ...

SPY MISSIONARIES IN INDIA

... SPY MISSIONARIES IN INDIA. From an anima, given by Mr. Chunbarlain in the finme of Commons on June 23, it ap pears that 442 enemy alien missionaries, mostly Germans, are at liberty in India and at their poets on parole on condition of good behaviour: ...

SPY'S LAST SAGE

... SPY'S LAST SAGE. Written on a slate which lay a stool Eepferles cell was a dramatic last massage: To whom it may concern. My name is liiipferle, au to 8o linger Rustatt I B (born at Sol Hagen, near Bustatt-in-Baden). I am a soldier with rank which ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 2 | Tags: none