GAOL FOR HELPING RUSSIA
YIOXTKEAL, June 20. : Ylr. .Tustice Lazure lias sentoru-ed | Fred Kose, the Comiiiunist liienibef of j Parliament, to six vears' iuqirispiiment. j Kose was convicted of seuding informa- , tion illogallv to Kussia in coimection j with espionage activities. The Court scntenct'd Yli's. Woikin to 1 six niontlis' imprisoiimeiit for contempt ! of Court in connection with the Fred Kose trial, and seiitoiiced 0 Gordon! Luuan, Ilarold Gersion, Kric Adams j and Matt Xight ingale to tliree monlhs'i iniprisoniiient. The three last-named l'aci'd charges arising out of the invcstigation oi the alleged Boviet spv ring. JMr. .lustice Lazure explained tiiat .Mrs. Woikin, who had previQusly pleaded guilty to contraveiiiiig.. the Ofhcial Kecrets Act, received the highest sentence because there was less reason for her not testifving. (All four refused to testify in the Kose ease, and later threh declined 011 the ground that their evidence niight be prejudicial to their own cases. ) Before the sentence was imposcd Kose tohi the Court: "1 have never done anything against the interest of 111 y country. I still sav I am innocent."
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 June 1946, Page 5
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