The Archive · 1940

Dublin Case

Internal Plot to Usurp Government Functions; German Involved

London, June 22.

A code alleged to have been found.|m a house at Dublin was mentioned in Dublin Court yesterday, when Stephen Carroll Held appeared under the Emergency Powers Act and Offences Against The State Act, including conspiring with unknown persons to usurp function of the Government -by maintaining an armed force, styling itself Irish Republican Army, and obtaining, on behalf of that force U.S.$20,000.

Mx. McCmhy, K.C, prosecuting, described the charges as being of very great gravity, "in view of the epoch-making events taking place outside Eire." He said there were a number of documents which the prosecution contended would show existence of a code at Held's house. and submitted that evidence about the code would have to be heard in camera.

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