Show I I I I i I CHICAGO WOMAN IS STARVED IN INGERMAN INGERMAN GERMAN PRISON Mrs l Fuhrman Reaches N. N Y After fter Awful A Experience in Husbands Husband's Country Captured as a asp spy b by Germans sentenced sentenced sentenced sen sen- to be shot finally Imprisoned In Ina I a penitentiary where scores of oC women died about her and living 11 conditions were tero Indescribable such is the story story told b by Mrs Margaret far Fuhrman upon I her return from Germany German yesterday to toa toa a Now New York Tribune inter l interviewer I II The Tho daughter of ot a Chicago publisher publish publish- I er er Mrs Fuhrman went to Europe to I study art In Germany German she met the theman man she afterward married I But ut when the war broke broko out he was wasa I Ia a G German first m my husband after 1 afterwards after after- wards ards said Mrs Fuhrman a as she I told her stor story to The Tho Tribune yester yester- day n This woman woman who has hns suffered I j cruelly at the tho hands of oC the Germans i c talked vividly of or her experiences and tho the Indignities she had undergone In ini i tho tho penitentiary When relating became strained between be- be I be j tween husband and wife wiCe as a n. result or of their differing sympathies on the I war nr Mr Fuhrman sought a divorce Sho did not secure It until sho was released from prison and then than It was wasi I given her on tho ground that being an anI American she was not fit tit to live 11 with witha n a worthy h Germs r n It I. I I l I I I f I j I I I I I I t I i I i I II I I I I I I I n 1 German Ignore c zoo Defeat dent i iI I left Germany German only two weeks ago ao and let me tell you tho the Germans dont don't feel that the they have been boen licked declared Mrs Fuhrman VI 1 I have o lived in Prussia and I know tho the sort of oC spirit they have hae It la is too loo bad that the armistice was signed at I should have liked to the allied armies marching marc right up to to Berlin which is the hotbed of oC all nil trouble in Germany i Soon after the war broke out Mrs Irs J Fuhrman started to do war work A The I German government en 1 engaged c 1 her to take charge chare of or the In English lIsh censorial censorial department in a German camp near Merlin Berlin Hero Here shoo had an nn opportunity to help English and American prisoners prisoners prison prison- prison prison- ers got their mall through and was able to be kind to them In many ways was Through an agent Mrs de decided de dc- to make a bid for tor her freedom Along with three other prisoners sho she got as far Car as Hamburg Humbur but one of or her escorts happened to be a German German- American and right within sight of of the Stars and Stripes waving ln on an American boat at the port she wan manacled and taken through h the streets first to Hamburg Hambur- then to Berlin branded as a sp spy and arch criminal d To ro He lie Shot hot Her tier p persecutors found amon among her possessions PO a U letter from her father rather In iii America and maps and plans she had kept In the dl discharge of her duties as censor i Sho She yeas was promptly court and sentenced to be shot This was waR in May 1017 1917 For Por a week she hc 11 lay under sentence but after explaining to high German officials tha that prominent fellow countrymen of oC theirs were using tho the same means means of oC I communication with the world I her sentence was changed chang d to a years year's 1 Imprisonment For two months she t I Ila II la lay In III military prisons where she re received received re- re rc-I rc fairly decent treatment treatment- Then she was thrown Into a n penitentiary I along with of or the vilest women criminals In Germany Gelman This was when her reign of oC hardship began Not only wa Wl I starved related Mrs Mrs- Irs Fuhrman but the women wardens wardens war war- dens were absolute devils We Ye were not riot allowed to to speak and we wc had t to work eleven cn hours a da day mending gunn gunny sacks l ck getting two for our lab rs We Ve were given s forty grams of oC black bread In the morning and anda a n pint o of some som beverage made of oC roasted turnips This was a substitute for coffee Then later Inter In the day we got some half decayed salt saIl fish ish that we had to pick the maggots out of oC Prayed to Keep p Reason on onI I l have seen women nomen go insane under this treatment I have ha seen their wrists eaten with gangrene under their manacles For myself I could Just put m my hands to my mJ head hea and pray God Just let me keep mo-keep keep m my reason When I la lay ill lit with Influenza a doctor came and when he found out outI I was an American he said Why dont don't you turn her to the wall and shoot her like a dog log Mrs F FUhrman hrman was liberated December December December Decem Decem- ber 1 13 and it t took three months of re red tape to secure a passport back baek to America She came camo out of or the penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary peni peni- weighing se seventy five f fe e pounds although ordinarily well built and of oC medium height hl |