TRIAL OF A SPY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1354, 3 February 1912, Page 6

TRIAL OF A SPY.

BERTRAND STEWART'S EVIDENCE,

By TeleEruh—Pretl Ata«oii.U<>*-4Jo»rrieM

Berlin, February 1,

Extraordinary interest is being manifested in the trial of Bertrand Stewart, with attempted espionage at Bremen and other places. The President of .the Court subjected Stewart to a singular examination regarding his friends and means, suggesting that'he was a wealthj aristocrat. Stewart denied that ho was a member of the "Upper Ten Thousand," though he is a nephew of Lady Kensington;'his income is ,£2OOO a year. When at Oxford he belonged to the volunteers, and he served*in South Africa, where he aofc* cd as a cavalry scout and not as a spy. He did not ask his military superiors for leave to visit Germany. I The prosecution alleges _ that Stewart inspected the battleships building on the Weser and' at Hamburg, and obtained I the exact details of one of them. Four dockyard - servants ' wcro afterwards arrested.

. It is.further alleged that compromising letters from highly-placed British officers were found in Stewart's luggage.

POLICE INSPECTOR SENTENCED. Berlin, February 1. An ex-inspector of police named Reich has been sentenced to eighteen months at Essen for espionage. Max Schultz, a British subject, who was recently sentenced to seven years' imprisonment on charges of espionage, was among the witnesses.