HIGH TREASON
CONVICTION QUASHED London, December 18. - THa 'Appeal Court has quashed Ahlers s conviction, . . r [Alders (late German Consul at Sunderland) 'was' seritehoed to death for high treason.] ' , THE JUDGMENT. 'ACTIONS NOT NECESSARILY HOSTILE. . (Rec. December 20, 3.80 p.m.) • London, December 19. The Lord Chief Justice, in delivering judgment, said counsel had cited ton Order-in-Council to show the reasonableness of Ahlers's view that a margin of time would be permitted to en,'labia Germans to depart, and the order jtlent some colour to the reasonableness ]<of his belief. Moreover, one .material 1 point, namely, the alternative issuo phother A'hlers was actuated by the taurpose and intention t-o aid the King's penemies was hot put before the jury •in the way_ that it ought to have been put, and it in nowise followed from [the evidence that Ahlers's actions were fhpstile to Britain, certainly they were !tot necessarily hostile.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2338, 21 December 1914, Page 6
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148HIGH TREASON Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2338, 21 December 1914, Page 6
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