New Britain herald., 1915-10-22

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 | night at 10 o'clock and that he had l given her holy communion and had found her admirably strong and calm. ''I asked MT. Gahan whether she l had made any remarks about any, thing concerning the legal side of her case, and whether the confession which she made before trial and in court was, in his opinion, perfectly free and sincere. MT. Gahan said she told him she was perfectly well and knew what she had done; that, according to the law, of course, she was guilty, and admitted her guilt, but that she was happy to die for her country"
 Promised Information.
 Secretary Gibson's report says that Conrad, an official of the German civil branch, gave positive assurances on the 11th that the American lega- ton would be fully informed of the developments in the case, and con- tinues:
 D6SplCo CHoSS dIC6o, we lIlodO repeated inquiries in the course of the day, the last one being at 6:20 D. m. MT. Conrad then stated that sentence had not been pronounced and spec1h- caIly renewed his previous assurances that he would not fail to inform us as soon as there was any news.
 Sentence Passed.
 "At s:3O it was learned from an outside source that sentence had been passed in the course of the afternoon, before the last conversation with MT. Conrad, and that execution would take place during the night"
 Secretary Gibson thereupon sought the Spanish minister, with the Amer ican minister's note for clemency, and, with Mr. Deleval, they went to von der Lanckens quarters. Finding the governor and his staff absent, they telephoned to them asking them to return on a matter of the utmost urgency The governor, with his staff, returned shortly after 10 o'clock.
 Secretary Gibson's Report.
 Secretary Gibson's report to Minis ter Whitlock continues:
 . '"The circumstances of the case were explained to him and your note was presented. He read it aloud in our presence. He expressed disbelief in the report that sentence had actu- ally been passed and manifested some Surprise that we should give cred ence to any report not emanating from official sources. He was quite insistent on knowing the exact source of our information, but this l did not feel at liberty to communicate to him.
 "No Action Before Morning."
 Baron von der Lancken stated that it was quite improbable that sentence had been pronounced, and even if so it would not be executed in so short a time and that, in any event, it would be quite impossible to take any action before morning.
 "It was of course, pointed out to him that even if the facts were as We believed them to be action would be useless unless taken at once. We urged him to ascertain the facts inn mediately. This, after some hesi- tancy, he agreed to do. He tele- phoned to the presiding judge of the court martial, and returned to say that the facts were as we had pre-  to carry out the sentence before morning.
 Presented Earnest Plea.
 We then presented as earnestly as possible our plea for delay. So far as I am able to judge, we neglected to present no phase of the matter which might have had any effect, en- phasizing the horror of executing a woman, no matter what her offense, and pointing out that the death sent ence had heretofore been imposed only for actual cases of espionage and that Miss Cavell was not even accused by the German authorities of any thing so serious.
 "I further called attention to the failure to comply with MT. Conrad's promise to inform the legation of sentence. I urged that inasmuch as the offenses charged against Miss Cavell were long since accomplished and as she had been for some weeks in prison, delay in carrying out the sentence could entail no danger to the German cause. I even went so far as to point out the fearful effect of a summary execution of this sort upon public opinion both here and abroad, and, although I had no au- thority for doing so, called attention to tbo ,oSnopcibi1if y,,ioI,t