Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-09 | Page 1 | Edith Cavell's Betrayer Soon to go on Trail

Edith Cavells Betrayer Soon to Go On Trial PARIS, Juno 8. Gaston Quien, also known as Luc, -who, it is believed, played a prominent part in the betrayal of Miss Edith Cavell, English nurse, who was executed by the Germans at Brussels, in October, 1915, will be tried next month. A long preliminary inquiry conducted con-ducted by Captain Grebault of the Sixth military court, established that Quien was serving a sentence in the jail at St. Quentin iu 1911 and was liberated when the Germans first took tha town. It is said he entered the German service as a spy and got employment in Bliss Caveli's hospital hos-pital at Brussels. Soon after he began to work there, it is alleged, Miss Cavell was arrested and executed. exe-cuted. Quien was afterwards sent to Switzerland as an invalid. Sixty witnesses have been called to testify in the trial. They include Princess Maria of Croy, who also was denounced to the Germans by Quien, and Madame Bovard, who was tried at tho same time as Miss Cavell.