Show Isobel Steeles Steele's tell Cell ell ellB Bore BoreN B ore N Death D eat h Cross C ross F By EDWARD W W. BEATTIE United Press St Staff rc Correspondent nde t Copyright 1934 by United Press ABO ABOARD 9 Isobel RD S Steele JL S. S S. S PRESIDENT former fOlmer Salt HARDING R G A AT SEA Dec 12 Miss Lillian Lake City girl expelled from Crom Germany on charges chares of oC spying told the United Press today that her prison cell in the reich had been marked with a cross indicating that she des des- was tined for execution by the nazis As the President Handing Harding steamed from Hamburg toward Le Lc Havre 4 bearing Miss Steele home homo In ln time for Christmas she discussed her adventures adventures adventures ad ad- ventures with reserve st still ll fearing to break the seal of ot silence put on her herby herby herby by German authorities as a n condition of her deportation instead o of trial by bythe the stern peoples people's court Miss Steele spent four months InGerman in inGerman inGerman German prisons She was arrested on an unspecified charges and finally was released under orders of deportation tation only after strenuous efforts In her behalf behal by United States consular authorities Authorities declared she had been guilty of indiscreet espionage espionage espionage age activities although obviously not nota a professional proCessional spy Wearing a blue suit which had been been her only dress for the last three months the American girl whose musical studies in Berlin were Interrupted Interrupted Inter Inter- by her sudden arrest played the piano to entertain other passengers passengers gers ers in m the third-class third section of or the President Harding She was penniless and pale but bu otherwise in in good spirits spirito over her release release release re re- re- re lease after a Ion long Imprisonment and what amounted to a tour of German Ger man jails She said she had been held in m five prisons including the Berlin political prison At the latter she declared were at least girls and 1000 men mostly most most- ly y political offenders Her cell she said had a cross on it and her prison neighbors told her Your case is hopeless I After Arter dreary weeks she was overjoyed over over- joyed oyed when the authorities decided to o dispense with a trial and send herout her herout herout out of the country I I had a bath every three weeks she said I was constantly watched and accused of ot attempting to signal to others I was forbidden to talk but managed to whisper sometimes to my neighbors Even the bedbugs s sas as visitors were a minor thrill in the themo mo monotony rio tony Protesting her Innocence Miss St Steele le refused in her first interview to go into full ull details of her activities in the reichI reich I cant can't talk freely until I receive a certain letter from New York for lor fear of or hurting many others she said Miss Steele declared that when she was transferred from to the prison she was asked to pay for a taxi but pleaded she was penniless She then was obliged to togo togo togo go in an omnibus in the summer clothing and shoes with which she had entered prison despite the winter winter win win- ter cold Her plans are uncertain she said She was placed on the boat last midnight midnight mid mid- night just before it sailed and was kept away from reporters and photographers photographers pho under orders not t to talk She was assigned to the third class She denied reports of the execution execution ti tion n of ot women spies implicated in the recent case and declared she herself was not connected with it |