The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14
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and Security" to an agent of Che Japanese navy.
 @Eiow do you wish to pleads" the commissioner asked.
 "tll plead not guilty" FaFnsworth said in Q low voice, after leaning over to examine the warrant and complaint.
 Farnsworth remained standing while Turnedge read the brief doc. ument. The spy suspect wiped his face with an immaculate white linen handkerchief.
 May Go To Hospital
 It was reported that Farnsworth would be taken to . hospital at his own request. He said he had been seriously ill for two weeks and had lost 90 pounds following attacks Of gastrltis and lung trouble.
 Not With Thompson
 ''So far as VIC have been able to determine" Hoover said, "there isn't any tleup between the Thomp. son case and this one"
 Harry T. Thompson, former navy petty oflicer, was convicted and sen. tenced to l5 years in prison. He was charged with masquerading as Q sailor and thus gaining access Go United States battleships from which he made observations and rec ported to the Japanese.
 In contrast Thompson's low rank ing position in the navy, Farms worth once held Q high command. He was court-martialed and dis. missed from the navy for scanda- lous conduct in 1927.
 Farnsworth was arrested shortly after midnight on a warrant Issued by U. 8. Commissioner Needham Turnedge charging espionage. The navy intelligence department said the former officer was held In the U. S. district court building pend- ing arraignment later today.
 At the court building, however, there was no indication that the prisoner was in custody and it was believed possible he had been taken to the department of justice for safekeeping.
 Hoover would not confirm this.
 Attaches of the Japanese embassy here refused to comment on the case.
 Record of Accused
 Farnsworth, Q graduate of the U. s. naval academy at Annapolis of the class of 1915, served l2 years in the navy as Q commissioned oficer. Up to the time of his court martial and dismissal from the service, he had a brilliant record as an oflcer, 1t was said at the navy department.
 His record shows that he was born | in Illinois in 1893 and was appointed to the academy from Ohio in 1911.
 After his graduation in 1915 he entered aviation and was rated Q navy aviator. He was graduated from the navy postgraduate course in aviation.
 He had reached the grade of lieu- enant-commande when he was or- dered court martialed on two specifi- cations in 1927.
 Tried, Convicted
 He was tried by general court martial at the Philadelphia navy yard beginning october 3, 1927. The charges were:
 1. Violation of regulation issued by the secretary of the navy;
 2. Scandalous conduct tending to destruction of good morals in the navy.
 Under the first charge he was tried on a specification charging | him with having pecuniary dealings with an enlisted man. Navy officials explained that this charge involved borrowin gof money from nenlisted man.
 Under the second charge three offenses were specified, all in the nature of subordination of perjury, which, it was explained dealt with Farnsworth's alleged attempt to show that he did not know at the time he borrowed the money that the man from whom he borrowed was an enlisted man.
 He was convicted and sentenced by the court to dismissal from the naval service. This sentence was forwarded by the secretary of the navy to the president on November 2 with recommendation for dismiss sal and the findings of the court and the sentence was confirmed by the president on November 2.
 Espionage Section
 The espionage section of the crim- inal code provides:
 Whoever with intent or reason to | believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to, or aids, or induces another to communicate, deliver, or transmit to any foreign government or to any fraction or party or mili- tary or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or un- recognized by the United States, or to any representative, officer, agent, employe, subject or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photo- graphic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appli- ance, or information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than