The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-05


States government. This, you will know.
was a safeguard. as nobody would open a
letter with this seal on IT. Florschuetz.
into France than either SigI or Franz. and
he always had some of this paper in his
satchel He would not go INTO France d.
scrutiny at the frontier. He would go first
to Bremen and from there TO Southampton.
Here he would board a steamer either for
Cherbourg or Toulon and land without any
trouble.
SECRETS BETRAYED BY A WOMAN.
Il will tell you how F'lorschuetz got the
plans for the new submarine boat Goubet,
while 1t was being built at Toulon This
Florschuetz told me himself at theater i'm
Berlin week or two after he returned from
the expedition. He landed at Toulon and
went to a hotel. Here he sent a note to
Nine. Jansen telling her what he wanted
and then proceeded TO Monte Carlo for a
day or two at the tables. 1t was arranged,
of course, If there was any trouble over the
work word would be sent him Nine. JAMS
sen is the wife Of naval officer and had
the entree to the arsenal at Toulon. She Sc
cured all the information desired and 1t was
handed to Herr FlorschuetZ on his return 10
Toulon, in less than one week Informatio
regarding the construction of the war vessel
bourg. was obtained in the same manner.
II will cite another case to show how
easily anything thar Germany wanted could
senal at Toulon, Thomas by name, at the
request of one of the five or six women
skirmishing around there at that time, pur-
Joined a drawing which gave clearly the
inside of the fortress at the location of the
submarine mines in the harbor. This in
formation / know went to Esterhazy, but
it took a half dozen women to get it TO him.
This drawing was copied at the home of
one of Prince Pless's sweethearts at Paris
and original drawing returned two days
later TO TOulon.
Sergeant Thomas was found out in this
matter, however and is now in prison.
The espionage system was such that Ger
many was advised of the meeting of all
boards connected with any arsenal or for
tifica tion For instance, If new gun were
TO be tried, a German agent would be loi-
tering near the testing place and / remem-
Der on one occasion when an experiment of
this kind was concluded rough sketch of
the results was handed the German agent
before the officers left the grounds. This
report on the test of new invention would
be in the hands of the German government
before 1t reached the. Ministry of War in
office at staff headquarters. During all this
time i never heard of Captain Dreyfus, and
did not know there was such a person until
/ heard of his arrest
HOW THE MONEY WAS PAID
Mr.. Bentheim was asked who handled the
| money for the maintenance Of this infor-
nation bureau. His reply was: Captain
| Sigl handled all money for this merchan-
| disc. as they termed it to Herr Florschuetz.
Emperor William did not, of course, have
any direct dealings with those who did the
work, but knew where the money went.
| The money, as have said, was paid from
| the secret service fund of the minister Of
marine and / can recolect now that $4,000.
| or its equivalent in German money, passed
| into the hands Of Florschuetz and Franz
| I'm the War Office in Berlin. This money
went into the hands or the workers through
| a postoftice in the American quarter Of
Paris. Every six months remittances are
made anonymously TO the Baroness De Del
den through the Credit Lyonnais in Paris.
The bank is entirely innocent of the pur-
| pose for which the money is used and the
| record will corroborate this statement.
| Baroness De Delden was a sweetheart of
| ferred her affections to Esterhazy. She is
| martial
| Mr.. Bentheim was questioned as to his
| reason for leaving Germany and his reply
was TO the effect that a quarrel with the
| Emperor over another matter caused 1t. He
| was arrested and placed in the fortress at
| Potsdam. AT that time.'' he continued, II
dld not have my passports on my person,
then secretary of the embassy at Berlin
| who came quickly to my assistance and, 1t
being proven that | was an American citi-
| zen, was released and soon after left the
| country: Mr.. Coleman will confirm what
/ have said"
| Mr.. Bentheim said he arrived in New York
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| plenty of war talk then and he enlisted on
| Aug. of that year in the Two-hundred-
| and-second New York Regiment. While at
Camp Meade" he went on, II was trans
| ferred TO the quartermaster.s department
| and later made brigade clerk. 1 was dis
| charged at Washington barracks Jan. q Of
| this year and received my money the day
| following. l was the only man of the Two
| hundred and-second New York discharged
| In Washington. AT this time the regiment
| was in Cuba. Brigadier General Oates, in
| whose headquarters / was clerk recon-
mended my muster out at my request and
| Adjutant General Horton, who is now in
| the commissary department of the War
| Ofice In Washington, signed in Cuba the
| papers which secured for me my honorable
| discharge The papers were finally signed
| by Colonel F. l. Guenther who was at that
| time at Fort Myer.'
Mr.. Bentheim was told that the fact that
| his story should appear at this time and
also that it contained much startling
| information 1t would cause considerab BILE
| doubt as to its authenticity, but to this he
| replied: II will go with you before a notary
| public and swear that everything 1 have
| told you is the truth: or will swear in a
| similar way to any United States officer or
member of the German embassy. The story
| Is absolutely true and you are at liberty
10 communicate with any of the persons
l have mentioned in an effort at corrobo-
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