The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28
WOMAN ACCUSED
 OF BEING 4 SPY Mile. Theron Arrested at
 Cologne CRIME AT ZABORZE Sweeps Make Discovery in Old Fashioned Chimney-Govern- ment Has Been Swindled
 Out of Millions
By MALCOLM oLARKn

| under arrest at Cologne on the suspicion that she was military spy. A German
 army officer Is implicated:
 Miss Theron is & Parisian and is said
 to be related to the French premier, M Monis, and she was nominally earn ing a livelihood by initiating ladies and
 gentlemen moving in military circles Into
 the mysteries of her native tongue
 Among her pupils was an officer. who
 at her suggestion laid before her 8 copy of one of the German mobilization
 schemes which he had abstracted from a | fortress.
 The fact that she had gained posses
 sion of this jealously guarded secret came
 to the knowledge of the authorities, and
 she was promptly arrested. But, while
 evidently unable to deny the fact, she
 had a much more innocent interpreta- | tion of 1t than that which had naturally | suggested itself to the minds of her ac- | cusers. Her account of the matter Is that | the perilous task which she set her &C.,
 complice was merely intended to be a
 touchstone of his love- He had, she de-
 clares, sought her hand n marriage, and | to test the strength of his affection and l the measure of his devotion. she called
 upon him to be false to his military oath,
 and court a risk more terrible than that
 of death, assured. as she put 1t, that
 if he did tits for her sake, he would show himself to be a true character. How | far this ingenious explanation will help | to get her out of her scrape remains to
 be seen.
 I uAI1 rxyI4
 gently sentenced to five years imprison-
 ment for refusing to work on Saturdays, l has recanted Naumann held the belief | that Saturday was the real Sabbath,
 and, therefore, all work was forbidden.
 He has at last realized that he would
 spend his whole life in prison unless he submitted.
 | An extraordinary crime has been
 brought to light in an accidental manner
 at Zaborze, in Silesla. Sweeps are en-
 gagged in cleaning the large old-fashioned
 chimneys at the house of a landowner
 named Czekalla. When in the chimney
 of one of the bedrooms they met with an obstruction. After difficulty the men suc- ceeded in extricating a black object, which
 proved to be the remains of a human leg,
 blacked by smoke. Realizing that they | had stumbled upon traces of a crime, the sweeps summoned the polIce and a thor | ough examination of the chimney was | then carried out under the police super vision. Piece by piece the remains of what was evidently a girl were brought
 out, blackened and hardened by the effect of the smoke. The doctors who subse- | quently examined the remains declare | that the corpse, which Is believed to be
 that of a girl aged IS, who disappeared | about year ago from the neighborhood.
 must have been in the chimney for ! months.
 l The police are following every possible clue in the hope of arresting the perpe- | trators of the murder, for that the girl
 was murdered before her body was put in | the chimney the examination leaves little 6oubt.
 The finance committee of the diet of Oldenburg has determined to tax bache-
 lors and old maids. All such having
 reached 30 will be liable If in receipt of
 an income of $1050 annum, to 10 per cent
 tax. The new tax. it seems will fall ai-
 most exclusively upon men.
 | duel took place in Derfen, near Mu-
 nich, between two boys. aged 14 and 12
 years old. After a quarrel the boys de-
 cided to settle their differences, in &C.,
 cordance with the code. Taking up posi- | tions at distance of 30 paces they opened
 fire with small calibre sporting rifles The
 younger boy was hit in the eye at the | first exchange of shots, and was so badly wounded that he had to be taken to
 Munich to have an operation performed | The reichstag has been debating the | imperial insurance bill which is intended I to simplify and unify the present system | of state insurance, with It's three depart
 nents relating to insurance against sick
 ness, accidents and old age, and at the tN zt.1I.,
 in relation to widows and orphans. The bill which contains 1754 clauses, has been
 under discussion in committee for over a | year.
 A skating rink for the blind has opened | here The wonder acuteness of the sense of feeling in those who are blind makes | it possible for them to know certainly
 when they approach objects, although l they do not see them. They avoid each | other with ease, whether skating singly | or In pairs; they waltz around the hall, | and the spectator watching them would | never suppose they were sightless, for | their movements are as swift and sure as 1 those of people blessed with normal sight | The government has been swindled out | of millions by estates which made false
 returns The estate of a man who was known to be worth s10O00,000 was returned as being worth only s750,000.
 Profiting, perhaps, by the experience of | Lloyd George, the authorities of the in1- l reral treasury summoned tax gatherers high and low from all parts of the em-
 pire to receive instruction In the mys- | teries of increment taxation. Some 370 | officials received instruction on the con- tents of the law, the principal methods of circnmventng taxation, and the appro- | priate remedies.
 l A young man at Salfeld seeks a di- yorce because he has discovered that his 1 wife added four thoughts to the $50 thatl | stood for her credit in the savings bank | book when she showed the book to him l>hefore they became engaged.
 | Proceedings have been taken against Herr Woelfer, municipal architect, who
 has been acting as treasurer for the | Woman's association of the Red Cross for | the German colonies. He has been charged with having embedded the sum of ScO0,OC0 of the association funds. l Professor Frobenius head of the Ger man Archaeological mission in West Az rica, has dispatched a communication, in which, amid complaints of misrepresenta | ton couched in violent language, he brings the serious charge against British officials of tourturing native from .he German protectorate of Togo. Professor Frobenius protests against l two charges which, he says, have been brought against him-one that he had stolen objects of worship from natives: the other that his discoveries were not