FIVE YEARS’ GAOL
FOR INTERNED GERMAN IN AUSTRALIA. CONVICTION ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CANBERRA, July 20. A sentence of five years’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed cm Karl Oswald Thierfelder, the ini-lined German machanic, who pleaded guilty at the Adelaide Criminal Court to two charges of recording defence measures in a manner projudicial to the Commonwealth defence. In passing sentence, the Chief Justice (Sir John Meilis Napier) said he believed Thierfelder had been used by others as an instrument in a system of espionage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1943, Page 3
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87FIVE YEARS’ GAOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1943, Page 3
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