Evening star., 1933-04-12
ONE BR|TON PLEADS
GUILTY TO SPYING
Five Others Deny Charge as
Trial Opens Before
Moscow Court.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MOSCOW, April Nv. H. Mac
Donald, British employe of the Metro
politan- -Vickers Electrical Co., and II
Russian employees of the company to-
day pleaded guilty to charges of es-
pionage. sabotage and bribery.
Five other British employees of the
company pleaded not guilty.
The five other Englishmen are Allan
Monkhouse, Moscow director for the
Metropolitan vickers Co.; Charles
Nordwell, L. c. Thornton, A. w. Greg
ory and John Cushny.
The II Russian employees of the
company include 1 woman.
Their trial started this morning in
october Hall. the house of the trades
unions, which was guarded closely by
uniformed and bayoneted soldiers sta
toned inside and outside the court
room.
Four Judges Preside.
October Hall was crowded to its
capacity of approximately 500. Spec
tators were admitted only by card.
Four judges, one of whom is an
alternate, were seated at red-draped
table on an elevated dais, back of
which stood a squad Of uniformed
soldiers.
The prisoners were seated in dock
to the right and behind the judges,
with two soldiers, with bayonets fixed,
standing Immediately in front Of them.
Nine defense attorneys were in court,
five Of them renreSenfino tho Enp~
To the left sat sandy haired and
bespectacled Prosecutor Audrey Wish
insky. He had one assistant.
Monkhouse, Nordwell, Thornton,
Gregory and Cushny first filed in, fol-
lowed by the remainder of the prison.
ers who had been kept in custody. (All
of the British subjects except Mac
Donald had been released on bail)
One Woman Accused,
Macdonald, % years old, whom the
prosecution said 1t expected to attempt
to chow Is spy, walked in the front
rank of the prisoners, and without
speaking to his colleagues took seat
in the front row of the prisoners dock.
He is tall and was wearing closely
cropped goatee. His face was pale.
Thornton also sat in the front row
Of the dock, two seats removed from
Macdonald. The remainder Of the
Englishmen sat together In the
back row.
Anna Sergeyevna, 37-year- bobbed
haired blonde, who was Monkhouse's
| personal secretary, also was seated In
the front row.
In formal perfunctory questioning
the prisoners were asked by Chief Judge
Ulrich whether they had received a
copy Of the indictment. All of the
Englishmen except Gregory answered
In Russian. Gregory, who does not
speak Russian, was questioned through
an official interpreter.
Russian Defendant Ill.
1t was announced at the outset of the
trial that the eighteenth defendant a
Russian, had suddenly become i'll and
would be tried later.
After the formal questioning reading
of the indictment was started. The
document is approximately 10000 words
long.
All of the British Metropolitan
Vickers employees were neatly dressed
and appeared in good health. The Rus
slams. all of whom were employed in
technical capacities in Soviet electrical
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All answered the initial questions ir
firm voices.
William Strang charge daffaires al
the British embassy, and a number Of
secretaries from both the embassy ane
the British consulate watched the open.
ing proceedings intently, as did a specia
representative of Metropolitan Vickers
who was sent here to observe the case
Virtually all of the diplomatic corp
was represented.
Alleged Confession Read.
In his alleged confession, the indict
ment said, Macdonald told of actin,
under Thornton's instructions in col
! lecting military, economic and politica
information; in organizing a breakdown
OF the Zlatoust electrical plant, which
: furnishes power for military and metal
5 lurical factories in the Urals.
1T understood Thornton was acting
In the interests Of England" the indict
ment quoted Macdonald as saying
, Thornton denies having obtained an
information of secret character or hav
ing issued any instructions for sabotage
The woman, Kutuzova, upon who's
testimony the present indictment