ESPIONAGE AND TREASON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18513, 25 March 1922, Page 9

ESPIONAGE AND TREASON

NURSE CAYELL’S BETRAYAL TRIAL OF ALLEGED INFORMERS. Preaa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BRUSSELS, March 24. (Received March 24, at 7.20 p.m.) Madam Werres, to whom Jeannes boasted he was instrumental in securing the condemnation of 126 Allied Nationals, including Nurse Gavell and her colleagues, gave evidence at the Mons trial. Witness, who is a typical Provincial, said that Jeannes was quartered in her house at Liege previous to the armistice. She gave her evidence clearly and intelligently and was unmoved by counsel’s severe and prolonged cross-examination and prisoner’s bullying and shouting. She said that Jeannes made the boast when slightly intoxicated. Two witnesses, an engineer and a barrister, who were court-martialled with Nurse Cavell and sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, deposed that Jeannes was present when they were arrested.—A. and N.Z. Cable. (The Daily Telegraph's Brussels correspondent states that the trial of Armand Joannes, charged with the betrayal of Nurse Cavell and other Allied nationals, is producing most sensational incidents. The evidence shows that Jeannes is a most curious typo and a product of modern unhealthy detective literature. Ho took; a mad, passionate interest in police work, which was the only thing he did well during liis whole idle life. He has a mama known as "policeana”—a new form of insanity. His self-assurance is colossal. He has a trick of gnashing his teeth which, combined with a malignant circular glance, conveys a sinister impression. Jeannes is defended by an officially-appointed counsel, 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.]