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Show MYSTERY VEILS TREASON TRIAL Young Offioar of British Army Coea on Hearing Before Courtmartial By CLITPOBO L. BAT CaJted rreea atari Cerreeaeadra LONDON. Marrh 10 ta a claacly fuarded courtroom and smld the anys-tery anys-tery that ha veiled hi per ion inr ha wm confined la tha tower of Lea-don. Lea-don. Lieutenant Norman BeillM-Stewart, BeillM-Stewart, 14-yesr-old officer of the Seaforth Highlandere. want aa trial today charged with trcaeoa. BaiUie-Btewart entered tha courtroom court-room clad In tha amart uniform of hh regiment Olengarry rap. ihort cutaway cut-away khaki luntc and Highland regimental regi-mental kill. H tttfmed Into a j ramrod and talutod U court and then marched to hi arel Ha aroea mla. luta later Id plead not (uilty Id all ton count. II u brruaed f rereallng lha errt of a new Bntua army lank to a con- Icera that later af(rd similar tanks to a foreign power. PLAN 8 ABB TBAILIO Lieutenant Belllle-Stewert wa arrested ar-rested whoa British military attach learned the duplicate war machine were available and Scotland Yard operative trailed th plana to the young officer. He ha beea held Incommunicado In-communicado In tha lower ef London, Lon-don, stripped of his rpun and (word, and allowed only ( brief walk along, the tower walla. Identity of Ihe mve-'ertoua mve-'ertoua military prisoner long baffled tha city and drew crowd to walch hw dally oolllary promenade. Today' courtmartial opened St II a. m. In the Duk of York school headouarter la th Chelsea barrack, a low lying group of typically grim military building off King road. Chelsea. More thn 100 persons gathered gath-ered eutatde the barracks, peering through high pikd Iron railing m th hope of glimpsing Belltto-Stowert Officer of th court were lust rwora la when a man rose la th pub-It pub-It section, raised a Bible sbov halved ha-lved end shouted: "Mr. President, in th Mm ef Jehovah Je-hovah I protest agamrt thi officer being aent to th tower." Police Immediately fleeted the, man, wbe Mid he was th Rv. I. Prater. PRESIDES AT TRIAL i M)or General Winston i. Dugan presided at the trial, and eight offl-L-ert of high rsnk constitute th court If found Innocent th officer will be restored to hi regiment; If found guilty sentence will be promulgated after approval by th king. BUl!-Stowrt son of n srmy officer. of-ficer. I a gradual of Sandhurst, England's Eng-land's crack army school. He mw eerv on th Indian-Afghanistan tron- tier and lator wm attached to the royal srmy service corps si Alder-shot Alder-shot Th slteged aal of military secret It wm revealed, look plac between August I and JO, 111 In association with s Germsn, Otto Wsldemar Obst. Baillie-Stewart WM charged with I making note of the organUatioo of tank, armored car equipment and 'arms atructur. of an automatic Irtfle pattern and of the organisation lot brigade of tank. I The charge, describe thi sa obtaining obtain-ing information which might ba ue-tful ue-tful to an enemy. In ll. th officer iwm indicted on ton count of commuting com-muting civil eflense under sections I seven end eleven of th official secrets se-crets act of Itll. In addition to being accused of reveellng military secrets in nrni". Betlile-Btewert also wm chsrged with obtaining aimlltr Information at or near A Id en hot between July 1 nd November 10, 1B1L and with having arranged lo Biett Obel In Holland on August SB Tha prosecution read s letter which Balllte-Stewart received from Berlin. It began: "My Dear Boy" aad waa alined Mario Louise. It spek of th -nice day w spent In Berlin together last summer," and thanked bim for loan of money. BaillirStewart kt th flrat British officer to be courtmartlaled for breach of the official secrets act sine Ihe war. The prosecution contended Be 11 lie Stewart sold hi country for the Mke of M pound ($1M at pari. It had reason to suspect, the prosecution Mid, that Ob.l wm a foreign agent within th meaning of th official secrets se-crets act |