The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19

informed, but that the man who gave
her name would be placed on the list
for special treatment. Needless to
say, we refused.
We thought no more about the
matter until the next night, when rifle
shots were heard outside, and soon
afterwards a party of men came along
with a stretcher on which they sub
sequently carried the dead body Of a
young girl. We tried to get near
enough to see who it was, because we
feared it might be the girl who had
befriended us, but the Huns kept us
back.
Governors Daughter Is Shot
We learned afterwards what hap
pened. The daughter of the governor
of the camp was carrying on with a
young officer of the guard, and was
in the habit of meeting him on GER
tain nights near to the place where
the sentries were posted. He knew
the danger they ran, and had intended
to speak to the sentry at the post,
but was detained on business for
some time.
That the girl happened to be early,
and she approached the camp furtively,
arousing the suspicious of the sentry,
who was on the lookout for the Eng
fish girl. without waiting to chal-
lenge he fired, and the girl was killed.
There was a terrible row over it. The
girls father stormed about 1t, and
one of her brothers fought a duel
with the officer she was going to meet
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but the matter was subsequently hush
ed up.
After the camp governor realized
that it was dangerous to be too Sc
| we're, and the orders about shooting
at sight any girls in white who might
approach the camp at night was with
drawn.
On several occasions after that we
had visits from the mysterious Eng
lish girl She would not tell US any
thing about herself beyond the fact
that she was more or less a prisoner
and could not leave Germany without
a permit. She was very good friend
to us, defying the brutality of the en-.
envy in order to bring us comforts.
Assisted by an English Girl.
1t was shortly after that there wa.
an attempt to escape. Two men o.
the Lancashire Fusiliers goI over thu
camp wall and made their way out O.
the town during the night. They were
not missed until the next day. The!
had learned where this English CIR
lived and had gone there with the in
tention of asking her for assistance
to get into Holland. When they camt
to the house she was greatly terri
fed and begged them to go away with
out letting anybody know that sh
had seen them. She said that he
husband was a highly-placed German
officer, whom she married before thu
war while he was on a visit to Eng
land, and that if her sympathies witt
the British were known to anybod!
but her husband, both would be ruin
ed for life. She gave the men som
money and told them the best way t
leave the town.
The men got across the Rhine a
right, with the intention of making fo
Maestricht in Holland by rounda
J bout way, and were in Sight of ths
| town when recaptured by a Germa
5 patrol, who offered to let them go
, they would pay certain sum of NOR
ey. The men had not enough to
3 it, but one of the German soldier
:, suggested that they should remain
r hiding at his house until the none
4 was sent from England. The two me
agreed to that, and the Germans too
n letter which they said they coul
= smuggle into England. For two da!
e the escaped prisoners remained
t hiding, but the morning of the THU
i day the police arrived and arreste
t them. The letter had been intercep
g ed. The two prisoners were brougl
1, back and put into cells for the re
Re of the time. We were all held r
g sponsible for their escape, and oil
e diet was reduced in consequence as
# punishment. (By The Information
e News Bureau, Inc, Boston, Mass.)