MURDER OF MISS CAVELL.
HER BETRAYERS' END. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Feb. 17. The Cologne Volkstiestung says that a Belgian secret society proved' that a journalist named Keels was guilty of betraying Miss Cavcll. A waiter named Louis Brill, with a youth of 11. named .Maurice Leclerc. followed Keels for three hours in Brussels and picked a quarrel in a side street, when Brill shot him twice with a revolver, killing him instantaneouslv. Brill vislfd' a Belgan ex-officer at Betrancourt and described (he assassination. The Germans allege that a Betrancourt smuggler is at tlie head of the Belgian society, but are unable to incriminate him. Brill,was eourt-mar-tialled and shot on February 11, Leclerc put in prison for ten years, and Leclerc's lather for five years.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1916, Page 8
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127MURDER OF MISS CAVELL. Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1916, Page 8
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