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Show VI HEINRICH IS HHERGHMGES Military Governor of Lille May Face Trial for Murder; Mur-der; Women Accuse. LILLE, France, Tuesday, Aug. 19. J (French Wireless Service.) Evidence ad- I duced before the French military court inquiring into crimes committed by the j Germans during the occupation indicates . that a charge of murder may be brought against Von Heinrich, a former military i governor of Lille. ; Madame Jacques and Madame Martens, ' widows of men shot by the Germans, ! testified today that after sentence of death had been passed on their husbands, hus-bands, Von Heinrich authorized their 1 lawyers to appeal to the German em- ; peror. "While the appeal was being made Von Heinrich, it was declared, ordered that the men be executed and they were , shot twenty-four ljours later. The court also has heard evidence against Von Zoelne, former quartermaster-general at Charlevllle. It has been testified that he was responsible for the deportation of girls from Lille In 1916. General von Gravenitz, governor of Lille ; at the time, it was declared, held him . responsible for the order of deportation, i Dr. Van Henverhny, a resident of Fives, near Lille, told the court that his i ; 19-year-old son was killed with a bayo- net by a German soldier on order of Cap- ; tain Himmen le Belafre. The doctor tes- tified further that the captain, the Ger- : man governor of Lille and the German ' governor of Roubalx were responsible for , the torturing of French youths in German Ger-man work camps. The court also Ie inquiring Into tho case of Lieutenant iBoysel von Gymnltz, charged with the attempted murder of Abbe Hallinck of Marcq-en-Baroeul. It Is declared that the officer, while drunk, twice stabbed the priest, in whose house he was living. Afterward he smashed the furniture and stole some money. |