TRADING WITH THE ENEMY
THREE TRAITORS SEVERELY DEALT WITH
London, February 14-. William _ Gurdcii Rigden, William Fownes Bigden, and Stanley Fownes Rigden, partners in the glove firm of Fownes Bros., were charged with trading with the enemy. The defendants pleaded guilty. ' ' W. G. Rigden was fined £500, W. 7. Rigden was sentenced to twelve' months' imprisonment, and Stanley Itigdcn to four months' imprisonment. [At the first hearing, on January 20, counsel statpd that correspondence had been found showing that the defendants, who had a branch in New York, owned by a company in Germany, imported to New York from Germany goods to the value of £60>0p, promising to pay for them after the war, paying additional interest, and promising big orders.]
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2696, 16 February 1916, Page 5
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121TRADING WITH THE ENEMY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2696, 16 February 1916, Page 5
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