HELD AS SPIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16484, 25 February 1914, Page 9

HELD AS SPIES.

MAN AND WIFE ARRESTED.

INCRIMINATING DOCUMENTS FOUND.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

LONDON, February 23,

Prior to the departure of tho Continental express from Charing Cross, detectives arrested a woman on a charge of espionage. A number of documents were seized.

A man named Gould, living at Wandsworth afterwards was arrested.

Gould’s house, at Southfields, was searched, and several incriminating documents relating to the navy were found. The woman stated that she had torn up the address of tho house to which she was going at Brussels. The police found fragments revealing the name of Peterson Gould, who stated that tho woman was taking a message from him, but he did not know the contents of the lettei*. Gould is a cigar merchant and a British subject. THE PAIR REMANDED. DOCUMENTS REFER TO NAVY. LONDON, February 23. Frederick Gould and his wife have been remanded on charges of espionage. The documents referred to the British Navy. The woman denied knowledge of the contents, but admitted her intention to take them to Brussels.