The sun., 1919-09-04
ALLEGED BETRAYER
OF CAVELL TRANQUIL
Georges Quien Unruffled as
He Fights for Life at
Trial.
HIS ANSWERS PLAUSIBLE
Explains His Lack of Pass
The Evidence Piles Up
Against Him.
Special Cable Despatch to THE suS from the
London Times Serrice

Special Gable Despatch to TnE suS from the
London Times Service.
Copyright. 1918. all rights reserved
PARIS, Sept. 3.-Georges QUEEN. the al
legged betrayer OF Edith Cavell to the
Germans. is the only one of the actors
In the drama now being played In court
who has not lost his temper. He seems
TO have complete confidence in his cour-
sci and lets him do the talking At the
same time he Is very bland and plausible.
He is more like a big schoolboy who has
been found OUT and wants TO make
the best of II than man fighting for
his life.
There Is no accentuation Of sincerity.
never an indignant population of the
crime laid TO him, never a passionate
protest of innocence. II Quien Is inno-
cent he Is a most dlsconcerting accused
man.
This is not due to stolid stupidity. for
he is clearly very intelligent. He rarely
IL ever contradicts himself. and II the
President or the Government commits
sary detects a discrepancy between his
statements at the preliminary examina-
ton and those at the trial he nearly al
ways has a plausible answer. AS case
In point the commlssary is continually
barking back to QUEENS statement that
he moved about without papers. NJ.
Eynde was given pass when he left
Turnout prison. while Quien said none
had been given to him or left to him.
TT is because he said. ct was as and
SO was over the Belgian military age"
He Seems Plausible.
why did he finger in Brussels? Be-
cause he had an ingrowing toenail. Miss
Wilkins, Edith Cavell's chief assistant.
corroborates this, but points out that he
was able to walk at least mile or so
with a stick. A servant OF Miss Cavell
swears she did not notice he hobbled and
knew nothing about the toenail. yet she
had been out with Qulen. Again he said
to Eynde: You know you told me you
had arms walled up in your house and
the wall had been so cleverly papered
over that no one could detect the hiding
place. If I had wanted to betray you /
could have told the Germans that"
But Eynde declares no living soul had
heard the secret from his lips and the
arms were not what Quien described
them 10 be, but a rife, a Browning gun
and carbine. And how did Quien know
Eynde's house had been searched for
weapons when Eynde swears he never
told this to any one? The inference Is
that Quien learned II from Pinckhoff.
the German detective.
Nine. Adams swears that Quien was
the only person outside her family who
knew her pet name Ninetee. which she
had confded to him to ensure his being
received by her aunts, yet the German
detective hailed her with the words,
you are Ninetee, aren't you%"
Again a witness. a maid. Nine. Henry,
who was connected with Baucq's or
ganization, told the court how she was
arrested. She had told QUEEN her name
was Ofrance.
Now this was the name under which
she was arrested The Germans con-
fronted her with ouien, who betrayed
her with the words, yes, 1t is She
She was sentenced to twelve years at
hard labor. Before she was sentenced,
Quien said to her, You are going to
make buttons in Germany" Evidence
was submitted insinuating that she he'd
denounced her fellow accused. Where
upon Nine. Henry. boiling with indig-
nation cried, 'Tf had been a traitor
should not have been sent to the gal
legs"
How long were you there" asked
the prisoners counsel.
witness Accuses Quien.
Three years. That was the reward of
treachery" The Government commits
sary interjected that this was somewhat
different from QUEENS three months i'm
prisonment. Mile. Henry continued
The Germans had their motives for
spreading the report that had peached
on my fellows accused. I did my duty,
but Quien did not do his"
The Government commissary then
asked: 'Is it true that Quien told you
that you belonged to the Baucq organi-
zation before even you said a word to
him about it?''
The reply was. Yes; swear 1t. and
two days later l was being Swallowed"
A telling incident was the confront
ing of Quien with three Frenchmen
who were fellow prisoners at Sennesla-
Ger. They stated that two hours after
Quien arrived at the camp he was in
possession OF a detailed map of the
camp and was seen speaking to Pinkoff
whom he addressed as Ami" Quien was
visibly embarrassed and explained that
he had obtained the map with the view
OF escape. The witnesses affirmed more
over that pas de corvee'' exempt from
forced labor) was written against his
name on the prison sheet.
Maitre Kirchen, Miss Cavell's counsel.
stated to the court that in his opinion
Neels De Rhode, who was popularity sup
posed to be the betrayer of Miss Cavell.
had In fact nothing to do with the af-
fair Neels was shot by Brillo on the
frontier because Brllo suspected him OF
working TO prevent his crossing the from
tier. Brillo himself was shot by the
Germans. 1t will be seen that many OF
these minor incidents have no direct
bearing on QUEENS guilt as the betrayer
of Edith Cavell. At the present mo-
ment two witnesses, Mile. Thulliez and
Miss wilkins, have recorded the belief
that he is innocent OF this particular
charge.
ONE KILLED q HITRT IN CRASH