The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-25
FRENCH TRAITORS TRIED
Woman Charged With Denounclng Her
Own Husband to the Huns.

| Own Husband to the runs
| From the London Telegraph.)
| Paris.--Recently in the small room o
| the assize court began the trial by
| court martial of thirteen men ant
| twelve women - twenty OF Frencf
| nationality, four Germans and one Bel
| gian--who are accused of many crimes
| of treachery committed In the service
| OF the German army against then
| neighbors and France.
The reading of the charges against
the accused. who are called the De-
nunciators OF the North" occupied q
considerable time. But 1t was not dull
reading. There were moments, indeed,
when the recital caused shivers to run
through the court. A patient inquiry
had been conducted in the Laon dis
trict. and was completed by the military
authorities In Paris.
Those in the dock had to answer the
charge of intelligence with the enemy.
They were discovered through con-
fcssion made by the German police
agent, Emile Thomas, after his arrest
in Paris last December. Although this
man played a preponderating role in
this sorry business, the military magis-
trates who have drawn up the tndict-
ment consider that he did his work as
German, -and the only charges against
him are completely in espionage ana
cutting and wounding.
The principal accused Is a man named
ToQue, formerly colonial administra-
tor, whose record was SO bad that he
had to leave the service. He was at
Laon when the Germans entered that
town, and Immediately began to play
their game. He invited the officers to
his house, became the friend and adj
wiser of Capt. Groth, chief OF the Ger
man service Of information, was ap-
pointed official war correspondent OF the
Seventh German army and eventually
ac the mn n a uenant NJ the fyn-
Zette des Ardennes. to which he con-
tributed Numerous articles, which were
intended to show that French victory
was impossible, and that a German
triumph was certain; Toque was aided
around them all those weak and mis-
guided people who, actuated by promise
of gain or by private spite, did not hest
tate to lend themselves to the odious
business of selling their neighbors to
the enemy.
Their story Of Shame.
The story of their doings teens with
shame, horror and pathos. One of the
accused women, ALBERT, betrayed two
| French soldiers who for fourteen days
were concealed In q chimney at Angull-
court. She denounced them. together
with NJ Evrard. the mayor; NJ. Derbois,
assistant mayor, and F'rideaux, a po-
| liceman, who were aoTused of having
| fed them. All were shot.
The same woman is alleged to have
| denounced to the Germans a miller
who. she declared, had given shelter
to a French aviator who had fallen be-
hind the German lines. But her charges
| could not be upheld.
Another woman, Adele Schuster. is
accused OF having denounced her own
husband; and a third woman, Gabrielle
Lambert, whose husband vas fighting
| in the French army, betrayed her
| father-in-law, who was sentenced to
| twelve years hard labor. This woman.
according to the accusation. actually sat
| on courts-martial and directed the
| judges. Several members of the gang
both men and women, accepted spying
missions, and came to Paris with false
| papers.