The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-16

Wno ,onQucteQ an undefground falls way for the escape of war prisoners. Cullen has been freed, due to insult ficient evidence against him, after almost 20 years Imprisonment.
 Mile. Thuliez, who knew Quien slightly during the war, refuses to commit herself as to his guilt. T know that Edith Cavell was under surveillance by the German secret service for some time before she was arrested, and am inclined to believe that my own arrest was an accident" said Mile. Thuliez.
 Arrested With Friend
 we had all been working in the same organization, taking war pris- oners by night from one place to another until they escaped over the Dutch frontier. I spent most of my time in Brussels and offer arranged for the stop-over of prisoners at Miss Cavell's home there. One af- ternoon happened to call upon a friend, likewise under surveillance, and we were both arrested that aft. ernoon.
 "Quien had been sheltered by Miss Cavell and although French man was said to be in the pay of the German secret service. I have no possible way of knowing the truth of this. I do know that when 35 of us were arrested and five of us were sentenced to death, Edith Cayell was not even permitted to defend herself in court. She and a Belgian, Philippe Baucq, were put to death even before the oftlcial notice of the sentences imposed was published.
 All Were Volunteers
 "Editn Cavell died because the Germans were particularly bitter against the English at that stage of the war. They pretended that she was the head of our organiza- ton, but in reality we were all volunteers working together. Miss Cavell's home was made into head quarters in Brussels and she planned many of the midnight trips from town to town until the border was reached. She and Baucq were kill- ed unjustly."
 Mile. Thuliez and the two other prisoners condemned to death had their sentences commuted after the Intervention of President Wil- son, the Marquis de Villai-Lobar, Spanish ambassador at Brussels, and Pope. The rest of the band had been sentenced to hard labor Some worked in 8 brick factory others made buttons which were marked Made in England" and Mile. Thuliez was set to work em- broidering clothes to be sold to Ger man stores. Three days before the Armistice was signed, after spending 8 months in prison, Mile. Thulie1 and the others were released by German revolutionists.
 Cavell Cell Set Aside
 The cell which was occupied by the English nurse is no longer used for the confinement of prisoners The prison of St. Giles is visited as a show place and the solitary cell, al- ways filled with fresh flowers and bearing the portrait of Edith Cavell and the English flag, is considered tourist attraction.
 Following her release from the prison Louise Thuliez returned to Lille. She has received many dec- orations for her bravery, including the Croix dc Guerre, which was awarded by Premier Clemenceau the Croix de Combatant, the awards of Chevalier and Officer of the Or der of the British Empire. She has done much to see that other wal workers have been rewarded fol their services by similar decorations
 For the past 12 years she hal lived in 6 Paris suburb where she has 8 school for 50 students. Her villa is filled with wartime souve. nirs, including signed photographs of Edith Cavell, and the officia' document which condemned her tt death and which states that Editf Cavell already had been put tt death.