REVENGE FOR A SHOT SPY

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4011, 10 June 1920, Page 4

REVENGE FOR A SHOT SPY

GERMAN GIRL'S AUDACIOUS DEI Colojiiie. 'Maria- Selentin, a German girl ol VJ. was tried. Dy. summary, court-niax-tial on the charge of oeing in possession of British. Army motor tyres. Whe astounded the court by alleging in de- / itence Ithat the proceedings had boon instigated as an act of-. revenge, because in 11)16 she had caused spy to be arrested and shot. Slie further declared that she had ' been awarded the Jfon Cross for her action. The R.A.if. sergeant whom she accused of -revenge"started that the woman was a notorious receiver of stolen goods and that he had laid a trap for her.:'A. considerable amount of army property was found in iher house. 'He .lip knew the spy to whom she" referred, but stated •thafehe tv4s credited in Ehrenfeld, where she lived, with having ' Deen rewarded by the German Government for having. caused an Englishman to be shot. ■ . . nf The girl admitted the possession .01 Ithe tyres, and her intention to-i-esell them.- Slie was remanded m custody, the court suggesting that she must (have some powerful backing to be .able W engage in this illicit trade *a such a large scale.