Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1915 — U. S. Boy Arrested As Spy to Have Life Spared. [ARTICLE]

U. S. Boy Arrested As Spy to Have Life Spared.

Kenneth G. Trjest, a Princeton student who is under arrest in England being charged with being a German spy, will escape the death penalty which at first seemed likely he would receive. His trial will take place Oct. 18th and his fathtr Tias consented to a prison sentence and through the intervention of the English ambassador his life will probably be spared. Young Triest had enlisted as a wireless operator in the English navy. He had written letters to say that he had enlisted to secure English secret® for transmission to Germany. His father says he is mentally unbalanced.