Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-23 | Page 8 | Teuton Agents are Given Prison Term

TEUTON AGEHTS ARE GIVEN PU TERM Sentenced to Two Years in Atlanta After Entering Guilty Plea, NEW YORK, March 22. Albert 0. Sander and Charles N. Wunnonberg, who pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of having sont spies to England from this country to g;i ther information informa-tion for thn German military authorities, authori-ties, today wero sentenced to serve two year in the federal prison at Atlanta and to pay a tine of $-"juO each. Wore Zander and Wunneiiberg were BOnt.pnced Assistant United States Attorney At-torney JoIid Knox informed Judge Van Fleet they were "mere tools" in t he conspiracy and urged severe pu n-ishment n-ishment as a warning to others. Ho asserted that the defendants had sent tieorge Vanx Bacon, an American newspaper news-paper man, to England to obtain information infor-mation about the "location of antiaircraft anti-aircraft bases and the shore auchorage of a certain cable. '.'For this work Bacon was advanced - $1000 by Sander and Wunnenberg,''' Air. Knux continued, "and was promised prom-ised $125 as week!- pay. He also was t-npplied with invisible ink with which to write, under cover of letters upon trivial subjects, military intelligence and instructed to forward communications communica-tions of that character to a 'spy master' mas-ter' in Holland, who would see to it that they reached the proper authorities in Germany. Bacon was not the, only spy sent out lv Sander and Wunnenberg Wunnen-berg itnd several other newspaper men still abroad havo not yet been indicted. in-dicted. ' '