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Show IB IS GAEN . DEATH SENTENCE I Betrayer of Edith Cavell Is Convicted by Jury of Frenchmen. j Universal Special Cable Dir-''--'1- f'AlU.S, HeiJt. Ocori-s Qu:--n must die for having had intelligence vith the crit-my in 1914 and 19 li in Bfltfiurn, Germany Ger-many anl Switzerland. The court martial, mar-tial, after forty minutes' deliberation, found him guilty on two counts; first, of swindling in Paris last spring, and, secondly, on the graver charge of being a German ag-jnt. The vote was four to t::roe. The judgment calls for a sentence on the second count of military degradation and death. I lis counsel, however, professed pro-fessed after the verdict of seeing a chance In the closei'.ess of the vote. Quit-n was not present wnen the judgment was read by the president f the court martiai. The French law provides that his counsel must inform him. After the speech in Quien's defense, In which Mai ire d' Armon tried to convince the court that there was nothing against his client except suspicion, and that every proof was lacking, the court asked Quien what he had to say. The prisoner replied: re-plied: "I accept whatever sentence the court sees fit to impose upon me, but I declare de-clare and I always will declare that I am innocent." D' Armon made much of the prosecution's prosecu-tion's admission of-being unable to prove Quien t!ie betrayer of Edith Cavell, but it is understood that evidence given at a secret hearing a few days ago by Colonel Rouquette, chief of the French counterespionage, counter-espionage, settled Quien's fate, because it is said to have proved that the condemned man was an active spy in Switzerland after leaving Belgium, where he had ostensibly worked with Miss Cavell. |