NURSE CAVELL
HER BETRAYER ON TRIAL.
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(AUSIBALIAN-NBW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) PARIS," 23rd August. The trial has comenced of the Frenchman Gaston Quien, for beixayiug the late Miss Edith Cavell after the latter had befriended him. [Quien was in prison at St. Quentin for swindling when the Germans arrived in 1914, and he was speedily on good terms with tho' Huna, who called him " double-metre" (that is, 6ft 6in) on account, of 'his great • height. They employed him to assist in unearthing the " underground" organisation which Prince and Princess do Croy had set up for getting stray Allied soldiers over the Datch frontier At Brussels l^e stayed at Miss Cavell's house, and then, with others, was got away to the Hague. Instead of returning to France he went back to Brussela, denounced Miss Cavell and others, and sent mo3fc of the band of devoted patriots to. prison or exocu: tion. Returning to France after the armistice in a crowd of refugees, Quien was immediately arrested.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 47, 25 August 1919, Page 7
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