SPY TRIAL
MORE EVIDENCE HEARD COURT CLEARED By Cabl•*».—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. Noon. LONDON, Monday. At the trial of Hansen and McCartney, who are charged with espionage, Admiral Hall was giving evidence as to how he arranged with Monkland to meet the chief of a Government department, when Mr. Travers Humphreys asked that it be heard in camera, and the court was cleared. Cross-examined when the court reopened earlier, Monkland said he told McCartney that he might as an underwriter get information regarding shipments of arms to Russia’s border States from Britain. He did not suspect McCartney of acting against Britain until he received the first questionnaire. He admitted that previously he accepted £25 for fictitious information, merely in order to discover McCartney's object. He was not able to say what would be done with the money if McCartney never reappeared. It was a week or a fortnight later when lie consulted the authorities that he adopted the dual pose after interviewing Admiral Hall. He was unable to understand the phrase in the letter, “The remuneration he (meaning Monkland) gets is large,” because he never demanded more money.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 220, 6 December 1927, Page 11
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190SPY TRIAL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 220, 6 December 1927, Page 11
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