MAY COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
Received Wednesday, 9.20 p.m. LONHON, March 20. At the Old Bailey May was committed for trial. Bail was refused. The prosecutor (Mr. Anthony Hawke) said May, whq was aged 34, hetween May, 1942, and SepteniDer last, was a member of the organisation established by the Government to investigate atomic energy. He went to Canada at the end of 1942 and worked in a iaooratory in Montreai. ' There he was] on two committees, having access to" ' the iatest uranium developrnents in ! Bntain and Canada. Leonard Burt, head of the Special. Branch of Scotland Yard, said he saw! May in Pebruary last, wlien May ad-l mirted that he had ari appointment in ! London with someone in the vicmity j of the British Museum. May said he ! did not keep the appointment, because ! he nad ' ' decided to wash his hands of ! the whole business." May had heen followed from Pebruary 15 to 20 and j he hau been found to be a inan of exeim plary - character.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 March 1946, Page 5
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