WOMAN SPY.
TRIED AND SENTENCED TO DEATH. The Home Secretary was asked by Mr Snowden in the House of Commons recently if any woman had recently been tried in Great Britain as a spy and condemned to death. Mr Samuel replied that a wo a; an spy was tried at the Central Crimuwu Court, found guilty, and sentenced to death. An appeal was dismissed, but tlie sentence was commuted to one c penal servitude for life. Her activities were discovered sax days after her arrival, and her correspondence was intercepted until her arrest. She was not a British subject. (Last September a German woman was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude for being a spy. A man charged with her was executed.)
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 173, 12 May 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)
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122WOMAN SPY. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 173, 12 May 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)
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