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Show GIRL GIVEN SENTENCE FOR AIDING PRISONER Two Years and Six Months in Prison Is Punishment Imposed for Forwarding Letter. Special CrMo to The Trlhune. BKRLIX, Juno 10. Because she tried to forward a letter of a French war prisoner, Bertha Bchumacker, a factory jlirl of Noechst, has been sent to prison lor two years and six mouths. The girl made tho acquaintance of the French soldier in a factorv, where """he was employed. Friendship', if not love, sprang up between the two. When the Frenchman, who speaks some German, Ger-man, learned that tho girl had relatives in Switzerland, he impiored her to aid him in sending a letter to his parents The girl consented, aud mailed the letter let-ter to her Swiss relatives, with the request re-quest that it be forwarded to France The letter fell into the hands of the censor, and on examination it was found to contain many false statements which were to be published in French newspapers. The prisoner said he hart been tortured to compel him to work in "a German ammunition factory. e works in a calico factory, and was given employment there nt his own request with.thirtv other prisoners. ' The girl who forwarded the letter maintained at her trial that she did not : know the contents, but she was eon- ' victed under the law forbidding all intercourse in-tercourse with war prisoners. |