SHOOTING AND KILLING AT LIEGE
, EXECUTION OP A' WOMAN. By Tolegrapli—Fress Association—Copyright Borlin, July 4. A Maestricht newspaper, describing the shooting of Liogo residents in June, states that a woman named Louise Firnay was'led to execution calling tlio Germans'cowards. The first volley, hit her in the legs, and she foil, shouting, "Vivo Liege/ "Vivo la Belgiquo." A non-commissioned officer then shot her through the head. The wifo of another victim was told the day before the execution that she could ransom hei\ husband.' She col- .. fimok aa4.
when sha returned the Germans merely showed her her husband's body. [The Germans were stated, in a Berlin telegram; to have discovered an espionage conspiracy at their headquarters at Maastricht. Seventeen spies were arrested at Liege, eleven of whom wero sentenced to death and six to long terms of imprisonment. Soven of those con-, demned have already been executed.]
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 6 July 1915, Page 5
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