Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1945-10-22
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007358

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, typed on label: BAILLIE-STEWART TREASON TRIAL OPENS IN LONDON: / QUEUES WAIT OUTSIDE BOW ST. POLICE Court. / On a joint order from the War Office and the Home Office, Norman / Baillie-Stewart, 36-year-old ex-British Army officer, was flown from / Brussels to Croydon, for his trial on a charge of treason to be / heard at Bow St. Police Court, in London. Queues of Londoners and / others who wish to hear the trial were waiting outside the Court / from early morning. The ex-Seaforth Highlander took the name of / Baillie-Stewart by deed poll 15 years ago. He vleft [sic.] England eight / years ago, but it is only five months since he was detained by / American forces in the Austrian village of Ault Aussee on grounds / of “security”/ PHOTO SHOWS:- The queue outside Bow St. Police Court, awaiting the / opening of the Court for the Baillie-Stewart treason trial, in / London. / TOP 22 October 1945 PN; stamped: [star shape] / COPYRIGHT Credit: / PLANET NEWS LTB / 3, JOHNSON’S COURT. / from BLACK STAR / LONDON E.C.4 / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK / [illeg.]; handwritten: Court

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON / COURTS
Retouching: N