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CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE.

0 GERMAN SECRET SERVICE MAN IN ,ENGLAND. By Teleßraph-Press ABsociaUon-OoDyriEht ■.'■■' London, March 4. Frederick Gould and' his wife, in whoso premises, recently searched, wero found documents of an incriminating nature relating to the Navy, have been charged with espionage, and remanded until March. 11.

Mr. Bodkin, K.C., stated that a letter in Gould's letter-book to a correspondent, 1003, showed that his real name was Schroeder, and that ho fought in the Franco-German Wan and visited parts of Europe as a member < f the secret service of a foreign Power. Mr. Bodkin remarked that Gould had been a spy on fJreat Britain for maiiy years. Ho told -a former schoolfellow that he was an agent for the Gorman Government. Letters in his letter-book proved the payment of money and also a request for two hundred marks. '(Ike. March 6, .0.35. a.m.) ..- ' London! March 5. Mr. Bodkin stated that tho official chart at Spitlieud, drawings relating to ,tlio engine-room' arrangements on a battleship, and also a gunnery book, had been found in Gould's possession.

"When arrested tit' Charing Cross Railway Station,' Guild's wife stated that she hatl torii up a jiaper containing the address of the place where she was going to! in-Brussels.-.'.The-police found fragments of paper reyealiiifrtlie name "Petersen." Gould stated that the woman was faking a! message fi'om him, but did not know the contents.. When previously brought before the Court,"it was stated that the documents fouml in the woman's possession.'referred';to the British N.iry. The wquiau denied any knowledge of their contents,' but admitted her intention to take them to Brussels.

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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 7

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CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 7

CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 7

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