The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-20
Decorated War Nurse IS
 Held In New York TOI1lbS

New York, March 2o.---Emily, Jay, French girl who has been in this country about 15 months, stumbled up the steps leading from the waiting room of the Tombs prison to cell cor ridOr recently weeping bitterly. She stumbled because she has been par tially blind since being wounded by q bomb when she was a nurse with the French army. She wept because all her hopes of finding a peaceful and pros porous life in America have ended in the TombS.
 The girl is the widow of an Ameri- can soldier whom she met in France and the wife of a French sailor whom she married since coming to this country. Her husband must sail with his ship for France today. Alone iE- this country, charged with a serious crime, and expecting to become mother in a few weeks, the young woman, to whom the French Govern ment awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery in service, has excited even the compassion of prison natrons in ured to pitiful spGctacles of human suffering.
 Emily is accused of having taken 1 c,othing bclonging to 6 patron of the lRcndezvous Hotel, 107 West Forty third street. This clothing, she de l of the hotel, and seeing that it had not been taken away Believed that it ihad heen discarded. After five months, i Margaret AHeS, an actress, owner of ! the clothing, returned and as1-~7 for i it. The arrest Of the Frer.ch woman ! followed.
 !! Wcunded iii tile head, arm. leg and mouth by the bomb which destroyed the sight Of one eye, the girl was re-
 turned to her people for convaiescence after serving with the army in 1915
 She had been studying . { the Middle
 sex Hospital in London v"ieh the ob- iect Of becoming a trained nurse when the war began, and she was recalled to her own country. Her sister went to the front as a nurse and her four ibrott1ers immediately entered the
 army. Although she was supposed tc stay home with her mother, she vol
 uteered at once and became a nurss
 on a sanitary train. About two ol !thrcG3 miles from the front sEe wa:
 wounded.
 Her family lived at >Rouen. but she
 had an uncle who was mayor of { small town near Bordeaux The mayo had receivcd many communication
 from General Scott of the American
 forces calling attention to iuposition' on American soldiers by tradesmen il , the vicinity.
 'tAs I could speak English my uncl
 sent tor me to stay at his home an'
 help him take care of these matters. , explained Mrs. Jay. Tn that way
 became acquainted with my first hus . band. He was an American soldier, mcm5er of the 27th Division. Hi name was Gilbert Smith and becaus of his bravery in battle he became l captain. I was marFe5' to him i Bordeaux. April 15. 1&17. He lived onl t five months after We were married, a = inc was gassed and died from the ef i fects- y Two of my brothers were killed i = the war and then my mother died, an
 although my father was very angr . with me I felt I couldn't stay at hom . any more. It was so sad with S >; many people that I had kro---a '5aa = or suffering. So I came to this cour
 try thinking that I would like to mak
 friends with the family of my hus
 band.
 When got here I went to Wasl
 ington, where they lived, and. saw h
 sisters They lived in a little villas S outside of the city and I did not fe at home there. It seemed to me
 would be better for me to come ba6 u to New York and try to earn my oH H. living.
 $, T" came back, having only $50 le Ill by that time. I did not know how st do very much. so I went to Q Frenc Id restaurant and learned to be a wal y ress Afterward worked at the Iie, le dezvous restaurant and later at a pr n- vate house. I met my present hu
 band last June and was married
 fhfrrl about three months ago. e. While I was working at the Re ny dezvous I saw some clothing in | d. linen room. There were an eveni
 dress. three silk shirts, a collar a. in two sweaters. They were partly wo ITS and were not tied up or marked wi he a name. so I thought no one want
 them I told the other maid that