Word: shapcott
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...removed and the trial proceeded. In a two-and-a-half-hour speech, the Prosecutor, Major Harold Shapcott, outlined the Government's case. Because Britain is not at war Lieut. Baillie-Stewart's life was not at stake, but there were ten charges against him. with a maximum penalty of 140 years in jail. On the plea that he was studying for staff college examinations, he had borrowed from the Aldershot Military Library the specifications and photographs of an experimental tank and a new automatic rifle for infantry, also notes on the organization of tank and armored...
...mincing words!" cried Major Shapcott. ''The prosecution contends that Lieut. Baillie-Stewart sold his country for the sake of ?50 or more...
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