Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-12-14 | Page 1 | Hist! the Spy Refuses to Die

HISIf THE SPY REFUSES TO OIE George Cornwalhs West Was Not Shot at Sunrise or Any Other Time Was Lieut George CornwaUIa West, of fleer of the Scots Guards, end moat blue blooded among1 blue blooded Engr Ishmen, shot to death by order of Lord Kitchener because he naa betraying British mill tary secrets to the Germans T Yesterday's Herald Republican. Iso he was not. Every drop of his blue blood Js still coursing as healthful! throueh his Telna as blue blood can course. For three months various letter writers have been shooting him almost every sunr se as a spy It remained for the Herald Republican to bury him with the fu 1 r tual of red Ink. It was a terrible, scene of carnage but the lieutenant still survives. At all events, his wife Mrs j Patrick Campbell the famous actress, who ; arrived tn "Vew To k a short time agro and is now In Detroit, be leves him to be all e He was a Ive when she saw ! him In London a few weeks ago and that i was after the letter writers had opened j fl e upon him He was first shot as a j spy about the t me the 80 000 Russ an soldiers passed through England on their ; wa from Archangel to Be glum and neer arrived About the same time Lord Kitchener was reported to have gone to France to raise a row because the English were beaten back from Hons. That is another piece of eosslp which the Herald Repub lean s letter writer cred lS adding tbe remarkable Information that Kitch ener constituted h mse f a French court martla and lad two treacherous French officers put to death Kitchener went o er to France himse f tried them and had them shot sajs the credulous lady The various news, agencies of this coun try heard about the etory veeks ago but refused to handle it In fact all of them obtained pos tlve denials from official sources Tl e Tribune wired the Inter national Isews Ser ce yesterday for the results of its investlgat on and received the o owing replj Tribune Salt Lake The Corneal Is "U est story has been kicking around for five weeks It originated In St. Louis whej-e letters were said to have been recel ed tel ng of his execution. "We cabled London and g'Ot an abso lute den al from 1 e Off clal Preas B reau Later v,hen Mrs Patrick Campbell ar I ed here sbe was Inter viewed and denounced the story as a falsehood Her manager a so said It was untrue j I S V Y ! i