SUSPECTED GERMAN SPY IN NORTHAMPTON - Aug 22, 1914

An incident of a particularly suspicious character has been discovered in Northampton.  A young

unnaturalised German who lived on the Kettering Road and mixed freely in many local circles,

walked into one of the Northampton Banks when the war clouds were gathering and asked for change

in German gold.  As he could not be supplied he took English change and disappeared from the town.

It is believed he hurried back to Germany.  When the authorities received orders to register all

Germans resident in the district, they visited his house and found to their surprise a wireless apparatus

fixed on the roof.  He had erected this without obtaining a licence for it and apparently had been

using it for some time.  The facilities he thus exploited for getting information  he had no right are

obvious.