NAVAL SECRETS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 742, 15 February 1910, Page 5

NAVAL SECRETS.

KNOWXDEN HAD "NO CRIMINAL ■>'' INTENT."; :■ VV;f : ''V> By loleEraDh—Preaa Asaoclation-Oocyrlitlit. London, February 13. Knowlden; tho young draughtsman arrested oil a oharge of removing from the .torpedo .. school ship'; Vernon ' : plans, sketches, and portions of the Vessel's natal wireless : telegraphic system, was'released on .Ms" own sureties,.. The ' Court is fied ho. had no criminal intent. ."tln ; . the- preliminary . proceedings ■;Mr.' Bodkin, for. .the prosecution, explained : that Knowlden was. charged,, with: taking documents containing ■ secret information; but not with imparting it to anyone else; ■Eighty / documents and instruments: wore found. in : his; domicile/ 1 For' upwards of> two years he had 'boen connected 1 with ■ the' wireless telegraphing l school; and, was. very clever. In June last he was seen copying ', wireless plans,', and'/was can-' tioned../He/explained. that / the copies' were meant.to help him.'in preparing for : an •; examination. ,f The explanation was considered-, reasonably .. satisfactory, but; notices prohibiting, similar • conduct were, posted in the ship. . Three detectors found' m, .his/ possession \ important improvements tho result of experiments by tho Vernon's officers, and the drawing constituted a record of. ;the latest discoveries.]. ./