Conan Doyle Saves Actor
Conan Doyle Saves Actor is an article published in the The Washington Post on 28 august 1914.
Conan Doyle Saves Actor
William Gillette Had Plans of British Embassy.
From The New York Times.
William Gillette the actor who was in London when war was declared was under surveillance as a supposed spy because he had plans of the British embassy at Paris in his possession. Only the intervention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle saved him from jail.
The American actor had been stopping at a retired London hotel because of depleted funds Detectives who broke into his room rummaged through his private papers and found the embassy plans. They were confident they had caught a German spy. Through the author of Sherlock Holmes he explained the plans were part of the play Diplomacy, in which he is to appear here.
