PARACHUTE CASE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1940, Page 6

PARACHUTE CASE

MAN SENT TO GAOL IN EIRE EVIDENCE OF ENEMY CONSPIRACY. WIRELESS TRANSMITTER FOUND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.50 p.m.) LONDON. June 26. The Special Criminal-Court in Dublin sentenced Stephen Carroll Held, described as a company director, to five years’ imprisonment on each of two charges under the Emergency Powers Act and also to imprisonment for three years for possessing a wireless transmitting apparatus, the sentences to run concurrently. The Prosecutor stated that a code was allegedly found in Held’s house, also a German Air Force cap, a swastika, some decorations, four maps, a telescope, a wireless transmitter and a telegraphic tapper. Held allegedly declared that he knew nothing about the transmitter and also, when asked to account for a parachute, said he did not know what it was.

The Court postponed the trial of Mrs Iseult Gonne Stuart.

1 A cablegram from Dublin on May 26 stated that an open used parachute, together with a radio transmitting and receiving set, and military equipment of German origin were found by the police in a house in County Dublin on the night of May 22. The police also found documents and maps referring to Irish harbours, aerodromes, roads and bridges and the disposition of the defence forces, a secret code, and a box containing 20.000 United States dollars. The occupier of the house allegedly made a statement that a stranger came to. the house on the night of May 19 and asked to be accommodated for a short period. The stranger disappeared on May 22. A woman whose husband was believed to be in Germany was arrested under the Emergency Powers Act.