A WOMAN TRAITOR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1644, 10 January 1913, Page 2

A WOMAN TRAITOR.

From the "Petit Parisien" comes the story of a woman of high standing. in Sofia, wife of a Bulgarian staff offioer, who was found guilty of betraying tho Bulgarian mobilisation plans to the Turks, and shot. : A few years ago, when 6he was still a young girl, she fell in love with a young officer attached to the Turkish Legation at Sofia. Her parents would not hear of their marriage, and when the young officer was recalled to Constantinople she reluctantly married a Bulgarian onioer. Some time later the Turkish officer returned to Sofia charged with a special mission, and friendship was renewed between the two. Finally, it is asserted, the Turk asked her to run away with him. "I have been ordered by my superiors," he said, "to obtain the Bulgarian mobilisation plans. If I do not succeed I shall be relegated to some distant command in Asia Minor, and. we shall have no chance of seeing one another." ,

The woman pointed out that they were both too -poor to think of doping, and told him to be patient. A few days later she handed him a bundle of documents containing the Bulgarian; army war plans. She had taken them from her husband's, desk, apd told the .Turkish officer to photograph them and give tho originals back to her. When the war broke out the Turkish officer .was captured in ono of tho first engagements, and papers were found on him revealing the whole affair* He was tried by court-martial and shot. The -young Bulgarian woman, thougn the wifo of an officer was not spared, and. having been found, guilty by a special oourt at Sofia, was also shot. Hot hus* band, determined to wipe out the dishonour on his name, was one of tho nrut in tho storming line at Kdrk Kilisse, and fell.