ENGLISH VICAR'S DAUGHTER EXECUTED
HORRIFYING NEWS OF GERMAN BRUTALITY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Octobor 17. Miss Editli Cavel! (late liead of a training school for nurses in Brussels), who was arrestorl in August and executed on October 13 on a charge of (it is understood) harbouring fugitive British and French soldiers and Belgians of military age, and assisting tbern to escape to Belgium to join the was the daughter of a former Vicar of Swardeston. Tlie news of tlio' execution lias sent a thrill of horror throughout the country. , . "BLOODIEST OUTRAGE OF THE WHOLE WAR." (Reo. October 18, 11.30 p.m.) Amsterdam, Octobor 18. Details of the execution of Nurso Carell show that the German firinu party awaited their victim in the garden at Brussels. She was led in blindfolded and faced the firing party, but her strength gavo way and:she fell to tho ground. An officer drew his revolver and blew out her brains.^ The Belgian community describes fhe dee_d as the "bloodiest outrage of tlio wholo war." Nurse' Cavell and her staff worked hard tending tho German wounded at the Royal Palace after the occupation of Brussels.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2596, 19 October 1915, Page 6
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