New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-22

London, Oct. Ill NIWly Dei'0''
tho government will collapse, was the
Of securing any consideration for the
case. We left shortly after midnight
and I Immediately returned 20 inc 'e-
cation TO report to you. o,,co,,r
"(Signed) HUGH GIBSON"
Counsellor Of Legation Deleval re-
norted TO Mr.. WhitiocA hot on the
failure Of the German authorities 20
reply TO Mr.. Whitlock's request OF
August 81 that ". Deleval be permitted
TO see Miss Cavell in order TO nave
ALI necessary steps taken ;or her ue-
fence. another letter was Dispatched on
September 10 TO which German reP.y
on September IL refused the reqSeS'
INIT referred him 20 Attorney hiTscneh'
who had been assigned Tor the oe1e''''
Denied Access TO Client.
Attorney Kirschen. NJ. Deleval re
norted. stated that Miss Cavell was be
inc prosecuted for helping soldiers
cross the frontier, and that lawyers
defending prisoners before German
military court were not allowed 70 see
their clients before trial and were not
shown any document Of the prosecu-
lion. but that trial was developed so
carefully and slowly that II was pos
sibie 70 have d fair knowledge OF all
the facts and present good de1ence
for the prisoner. ~ NJ,
81 Informed Mr.. Kirschen," NJ. Dele
veVs report continues, "of my intention
70 be present at the trial so as 10
watch. He dissuaded me from taxing
such an attitude, which, he said, would
cause great prejudice to the prisoner
because the German judges would re
sent II and feel that II was almost an
aTront If ! was appearing to exercise
a kind Of supervision on the trial.
". Deleval's report says that A'toi-
new Kirschen assured him repeatedly
that the military court Of Brussels AL
WAYS was perfectly fair and that Herr
Kirschen would keep him informed OF
all Developments in the case put that
Herr Kirschen failed 20 give him any
;nformation and that after the trial ".
/ Deleval learned from other sources the
! following:
Aided to Cross Frontier.
Miss Cavell was prosecuted for hav-
ing helped English and French soldiers
as well az Belgian young men to cross
the frontier and 80 10 England. she
admitted BY signing a statement before
the day Of the trial and by public ac-
knowledgment in court that she was
guilty OF the charges. not only that
She had helped these soldiers 70 cross
the frontier. but also that some Of
them had thanked her ia writing when
arriving in England.
This last admission made her case
more serious, because II II had only
been proved she had helped soldiers to
traverse the Dutch frontier and no
proof was produced that those soldiers
had reached q country at war with Ger
many, she could have only been sen
fenced for an attempt TO commit the
crime and not tor the crime being duly
accomplished.
"As the case stood, the sentence fixed
by the German military laws was the
sentence Of death"
The report Of VI. Deleval says that
Miss Cayell, in her oral statement be
fore the court, disclosed almost all the
facts Of the prosecution. She spoke
without trembling and showed clear
mind, and often added some greater
precision TO her previous depositions.
Saved Soldiers Lives.
W NtN she was dHhtu Why Hh' htiH'N
these soldiers 20 20 TO England the
report Of NJ. Deleval continues. "she
replied that she thought If she had not
done so they would have been shot by
the Germans. Therefore, she thought
she only did her duty to her country
In saving their lives.
THE military prosecutor said the ar
gument might be good for English sol
dlers, but that il did not apply to Bel
gian young men. who would have been
perfectly free to remain in the country
without danger to their lives"
Herr klrschen made a good plea
Tor Miss Cavell. says the report, but
the military prosecutor asked the
court FOR death sentence for Miss
Cavell and eight others Of the thirty
I'VE persons on trial. The court did
not seem 10 agree and judgment was
postponed. The trial lasted two days.
ending October $.
NJ DelevaPs request on the 10th for
permission for an English clergyman
20 see Miss Cavell was denied. the re-
port says. lie was told she could see
me three Protestant clergymen at
iaehed 70 the prison.
No Delay After Sentence.
On the evening Of the 18th ". Dele
val learned from unofficial sources that
the sentence Of death had been passed
az 8 o'clock in the afternoon and tina.
Miss Cavell would be sho, at ? o'clock
in the morning.
On October 9 Mr.. Whitlock notified
Walter Hines Page, the American Am
bassador In London. that a sentence
Of death had been asked for, but that
he had hopes the court might decline
10 grant Il. Mr.. Whitlock added that