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Show FRENCH SPY IS SENT -TO PRISON FOR LIFE i ! Tried to Sell Naval Secrets to Foreign Power; Places Blame on Woman. TOULON, Franco. Feb. 22. Charles B. Ullmo. an ensigu in the French navy, has been found guilty bv a court-nuir-j tial of attempting to sell naval secrets to n foreign power aud seutenccd to life imprisonment in a fortress and to be degraded from his rauk The court decided unanimously that Ensign Ullmo had abstracted military documents involving thc security of .tho state and had communicaLed them to a foreign power with thc view of selliug them. lie had not, however, actually disposod of tho papers. Counsel for Ullmo practically admitted thc facts as charged, but asked for clemency on thc ground that Ullmo was a victim of thc opium habit nnd that ho had fallen j under the influence of an unscrupulous ! woman, for whom he had squandered his fortune and ruined his life. Ullmo was completely crushed when his sen-tenco sen-tenco was read. Ensign Ullmo was arrested at Toulou on October 2:1 on tho charge of being a sp3 An examination ot his offects showed him to be in possession of many valuable documents nnd afterward of having abstracted a complete signal code and tho naval cipher. Au army reserve officer named Burton was afterward after-ward arrested at Vcndomme on similar simi-lar charges, and at Toulon on Novcm-j Novcm-j ber 10 five ringleaders of an important I association of international spies wero taken into custody. It is bclioved that all these men were in somo way con-i con-i nected with Ullmo 's plan. Tho authori-i authori-i ties found evidence that Ullmo had of-j of-j fercd to sell information concerning the defenses of France to a German agent. Ullmo made a partial confession to thc ehnrges brought against him and as a result tho French authorities decided j to ordor tho reconstruction of the I French naval tactics. I |