Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-01-14 | Page 3 | Camera Gets Salt Laker in Trouble

CAMERA GETS SALT ! LAKER JHROUBLE Delwyn Thomas Attempts j to Photograph London 1 Fortress, Arrested J Arrested on a charge of being a German spy thrown in a London jail, pnt in the sweat box, and on fiie point of being court maxtialed when a fellow Oxford nni ersity student rescued him was the recent experience of Delwyn Thomas, a fclt Lake boy who won the latest Rhodes scholarsh p from this state according to a letter reeeited from him by a local unit ersity student yesterday Thomas committed the grae offense of photographing some London military works and it waa charged that he intended sending information concerning them and a strategic eearehl ght to the Germans. The former T n vers ty of Utah Btu dent according to his letter was in London on a vacation In a desire to add to hut collect on of pictures, he at ' tempted a snapshot of an English armv station, not knowing: that the recent defense of realm0 act passed bv the English pari ament made such an 1 act a violation of the law Instead of 1 being taken to an English court, as cos ! tomary for such offenses, the Ctahn ' was marched to the army barracks and placed under a r gid cross examination. ' after which he was cons gned to a cell with a birdseye view of armv rickets l, under his window to await tr al before , an army court. 4. short time before Ue trial he was ident tied by a fellow era 1 dent an officer in the British army, t who testified to his Innocence and ignorance of the defense of realm law 5 After his examination Thomas t learned that the tower which he was i leveling his camera on at the time or n his arrest contained a secret search J light designed to betray German Zeppe-h Zeppe-h his at night- Had the Oxford student been convicted by the court he would p have faced a poss ble twenty five-year s sentence in prison or death