The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-04-12
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Englishman Enters
Plea of Guilty to
Espionage Charge

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seat In the front row Of the prisoners
dock.
Thornton also sat in the front row Of
the dock, two seats removed from
Macdonald. The remainder Of the
Englishnaen sat together In the back
row.
It was announced ct the outset Of
the trial that the 18th defendent, q
Russian, had suddenly become III and
would be tried later.
After the formal questioning. read
ing Of the indictment was started.
The document Is approximately 10000
words long.
william Strang, chage d'affaires at
the British embassy, and Q number Of
secretaries from both the embassy and
the British consulate watched the
opening proceedings intently, as did q
special representative Of Metropoli-
tan-vickers. who was sent here to OBJ
serve the case.
Virtually all Of the diplomatic corps
was represented.
In his alleged confession. the in
dictment said, Macdonald told Of
acting under Thornton's instructions
in collecting military. economic and
political information and In organic
ing a breakdown Of the Zlatoust elec-
trical plant which furnishes power
for military and metallurgical factor
les in the Urals.
Il understood Thornton was acting
in the interests of England" the In
dictment quoted Macdonald as say
ing. Thornton denies having obtain
ed any information OF secret charac-
ter or having issued any instructions
for sabotage.
Woman's Guess Cited
The woman, Kutuzova, upon whose
testimony the present indictment Is
based. told the police that man
named Richards, vaguely described as
an official Of Metropolitan-Vickers,
came to see Monkhouse. Cushny and
Thornton In 1880 and that afterward
these three and Macdonald secretly
met q number of Russian citizens on
several occasions.
quotes her as saying, that all Of them
were collecting political and economic
information and sending 1t to Eng
land"
Later. she said, Thornton told hez
espionage was going on. Still later
she told police she discovered that
Thornton and Monkhouse were plan
ming to wreck the turbines at Flat
Dust under Richards instructions.
Monkhollse, said the indictment, al
so denied having collected any secret
information, or having given any
brides, or having organized any sabo-
tage. He said he did get information
on his company's work In Russia and
on general conditions In this country
"of interest to the firm"
He did admit, It was stated In TIKI
indictment, that he and Thornton
paid considerable sum Of money II
rubles to q man named Dolgov, man.
ager Of the control department Of the
Russian electro-import.
To Call Five Witnesses
Dolgov. who turned the money over
to the Ogpu, Is one Of five witnesses t
be called by the prosecution.
MacDonald's plea, which followed
the reading Of the indictment, fur
nished q dramatic climax to the first
session of the trial. It surprised evel
British embassy officials, who had
not been allowed to discuss the cas-
with the defendant.
i It was believed MacDonald's ples
would be used by the prosecution
along with those Of the accused Rus
slams, In an effort to convict his fel'
low Metropolitan-vickers employee
all five of whom were understood pre-
pared to make q vigorous denial o
the charges.