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(United Press Association — By 'Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)
LIEUTENANT BRANDON BRINGS AN ACTION
DAMAGES AWARDED.
(Received May 1-1, 8.10 a.m.)
BERLIN, May 13
Lieutenant Brandon, the English officer who, with Captain Trench (also an English officer), was, in December, 1909, sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment in a fortress on charges of espionage secured a verdict of 80s damages against a newspaper for accusing him of bribing a soldier to enable him to escape.
The Court mitigated the fine, because it held that a spy was unworthy of special protection by the law.
(In January last it was reported that Trench had attempted suicide, but that the authoriies' were convinced that it was a sham attempt Trench, hoping to lie transferred-to the hospital -with a view to escaping. In the following month, several German papers announced that Brandon attempted to escape from the fortress at Wesel. It was said he filed through his window bars and .reached the courtyard by means of a rope, but that a sentry recaptured him. Later, the Convmiaiidant'of the fortress and Brandon's friends'deny the alleged attempt at escape by Brandon.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10636, 15 May 1912, Page 5
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187SPY UNWORTHY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10636, 15 May 1912, Page 5
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