The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1914-11-27

service number. l took up their point
with Berlin. Well, the "other busines
in hand" was to put certain British
army officers under monthly retain
ing fee Of f100 for which in the even
OF war he was to commit an act o
unspeakable treason and treachery OF
certain harbor defense.
Caught
! had judged my jurymen right, fol
they were very little impressed by thi.
letter. 1t was all too vague and ever
the fluent language of Crown Prose
cutor does not impress a hard-headet
Scotchman. ! was feeling In high
spirits indeed, when l saw one of the
attendants approach Sir A. M. Ander
son and deliver a document that ha6
been handed into court. | at once recog
nized 1t and my heart dropped into my
shoes. The Solicitor General read the
document and smiled. l knew they
had me.
In addressing the court the Solicitor
General produced two pieces of thin
paper-the same that had been brought
in on the previous afternoon.
i have got to show the court, .
he said fmpressively, "the most dead
~ code ever prepared against the safe
guards of Great Britain"
And it certainly was. It contained
the name of every vessel in the British
navy, every naval base, fertilization
and strategic point, in Great Britain.
There were over ten thousand names
and opposite each was written a num-
Der. For example, the dreadnaught
Queen Mary was number $40.
Using a magnifying glass had writ
ten IN tiny characters my code There
were so many names it was impossible
to memorize them all. Two opposite
sheets of the little memorandum book
were used, then the edges of the pages
were pasted together. Whenever
learned the British warships were 60
ing to put to sea, slipped the book
in my pocket. went to a position of
vantage where / could make out the
silhouettes of the warships, classified
them In my mind, and then writing
out cable put down the code num-
bers, say in this way:
PA, SO, 700. go. 21-(Necessary
words were filled in by the A. 3. c.
code.)
This message was sent by way of
Brussels or Paris to the intelligence
department of the German Admiralty
in Berlin and told them what warships
were putting to sea or arriving at
Rossyth.
The Puzzle of the Sentence.
The accidental finding OF the code
If course settled all further argument.
called no witness for the defense ex.
;ept two or three personal acquaint.
inces, to each of whom put this ques-
ion:
What is your knowledge of my
Ittitude as regards England?"
They all declared that even if | was
spy in the pay OF any foreign gov.
certainly had never shown
ny personal feeling or luminosity
cTard Great Britain.
All of which figured might aid the
ause Of clemency. The jury was not
ut more than half an hour. ! was
ound guilty of endangering the safe
yards of the British empire and IN
er the new law that had been aimed
gainst German spies l was liable to
even years penal servitude. Even
hen my spirits were not down. | had
hat Americans call "a bunch
Just before his Lordship, the Chief
ustice, summed up, an aristoeratic,
ray-clad Englishman, who never had
cen in the cou-. room before, ap-
cared and was courteously, almost
conducted to the bench.
noticed that the Chief Justice bowed
} him with JUNCTION and they had
bout two minutes Whispered CONVEX
ltion. His Lordship was nodding i
peatedly. This worried me. felt !
was going to get it good /
But, in substance, his Lordships i
,rdict was: c
Taking all the circumstances into L
the court pronounces a 4
ntence of Is months Imprisonment" a
l smiled and said: S
Exit Armgaard Karl Graves"
A Caller. il
I was taken first to Carlton Hill iail P
linburgh, and transferred after two a
seks to Barlinney prison near Glas-
W. Considering the circumstances.
IS treated with surprising consider v
on. The conditions that had char q
terized my trial prevailed in the "
son. / soon perceived that the Bar OF
ney prison officials were trying to re
Ind me in canny Scotch way-with az
result. 81
You're foolish to stay in here C:
u must have something worth
don't you get out? Al
That was the gist of their talks with c;
from the warders up. I kept nv or
nth shut. RI
Tow / shall present information that tel
s denied the house of commons to
m the occasion of an inquiry into of
case. tel
IN the fifth week of my imprison- so
ut was taken to the office OF the We
ernor of the prison. AS entered tic
NV a slight, soidierly looking Eng
gentleman Of the cavalry type tn,
cavalry officer has certain manner- tn,
s that invariably give him away co,