Piute Chieftain | 1917-05-31 | Page 7 | Germans Execute Women

GERMANS EXECUTE WOMEN A victims accused of being spies because they smuggled letters geneva la suisse prints details of it case similar milar sl to that of miss aliss edith cavell C Lvell flie ho english nurse who was executed by the gerni germans ns in brussels in ill Oe october fober 1915 the germans says the newspaper recently arestad two women lVa mandame darne ster and her daughter aged 22 on tile the swims alsa aisa thin frontier they were charged with acting as spies the women promptly admitted tit at the trial that they had smuggled led letters without knowing their contents from Al alsatian fair families illik to relatives lit in switzerland tills this was done simply as a friendly iffet act and without political or malicious fous r Y pui pos poses ei both won ivil nays lu la suisse Sul fese were ere shot at alue Muelha the mother was a horrified witness of the execution of her daughter before her turn came