NURSE CAVELL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 March 1922, Page 5

NURSE CAVELL

TRIAL OF JEANNES

Btf CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ' LONDON, March 21. The Daily Brussels cor-! »^)sp|ont|oiSt ; fetates that- the trial oi| Armand Jeannes, charged with the betrayal of Nurse Cavell and other Allied natiouals, is jproducing most sensational incidents. I The evidence shows that Jeannes is a most curious type, and the product, of modern unhealthy detective litera-1 ture. He took a mad and passionate" [ interest in police work, which w*s the only £hing he did well during his whole idle life. He has a mania known as. "policeana," a new form of insanity. I His self assurance is colossal. He has ! a trick of gnashing his teeth, which, combined with a malignant circular glance^ conveys a sinister impression. \ Jesahnes is aefended by an officially appointed counsel, others refusing to act voluntarily. WHen the prisoner arrived at the court a multitude of men and women howled with rage and bitterness, the police intervening to save Jeannes from the fury, of the mob, who otherwise would assuredly have lynched him