Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-19
SOME NOTED FEMALE SPIES.
Women Have Done Remarkable Work
In international Service.

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In international Service.
The wit of most women serves more
to strengthen their folly than their
reason" and it Is as the result Of wo-
mans wit that brilliant young Ger
man officer Is at the moment Of writ
ing languishing in prison under the
terrible charge of high treason. while
his sweetheart has also been arrested
as his accomplice. The affair Is one of
the most romantic cases Of espionage
on record. The officer, who Is attach
ed to the garrison at Posen, fell in love
with a girl, but owing to lack OF mon
ey they were unable to marry A Rus
sian secret agent learned Of this, and
approaching the officer promised him
a sum equivalent to $4,000 for plan
Of the fortress at Posen. After a
while the officer gave way to the
temptation, but found 1t impossible, on
account of the careful watch kept, to
get the plans out Of the fortress.
In his perplexity he confided in his
sweetheart, and her woman's wit sug-
gested way out of the difficulty. You
shall tattoo the plans on my skin," she
said, "and I will go to Russia with
them. They will never discover us In
that way"
The officer accepted the fantastic
and heroic suggestion, and after
very painful process an accurate plan
of the fortress was tattooed on the
shoulders of his sweetheart. The girl
journeyed to Russia, received the re-
ward and returned to her own lover
and it was the silly extravagances in
which they INDUCED with the money
on her return which led the author
tiles to suspect that they had derived
funds from some illegitimate source.
They were arrested, and 1t was when
the girl, in accordance with prison
regulations had to be measured and
inspected for purposes Of identification
that their ingenious plan was dis
covered.
That women pay a very prominent
part in many cases of international
spying is shown by Mr.. H. L. Adam
in his remarkable book, women and
Crime" Mr.. Adam gives some start
ling revelations concerning young and
attractive women who win their way
into the confidence Of youthful mill
tary officers, whom they induce to be-
tray state secrets.
"a few years ago." he says, "a
young and beautiful woman, named
Peterson, was arrested at Kiel, In
Germany, on suspicion Of being a
French spy. Posing as teacher OF
languages, she had entered into love
affair with a noncommissioned officer
named Dietrich, Of the explosives de-
partment, for the purpose Of inducing
him to reveal important German ma
val secrets. She had, by the exercise
of her arts Of fascination, attained
complete ascendancy over the young
fellow, who was found to be supplying
her with the formula for the manu-
facture of German smokeless powder
and the situation Of port mines. The
attention Of the authorities was first
drawn to her by the ample funds she
always seemed to have at her dispos-
all"
One of the most notorious and sue
cessful Russian female spies was
Nine. Joutcfenko, who began her
career as a spy at the age Of %, and
was the cause of many people losing
their lives and many others being
sent into exile. She was one Of the
most scheming and treacherous OF
women, her method being to fraternize
with Russian revolutionaries and then
betray them to the government
Through her instrumentality young
girl named Frania Froumkin was sent
to the gallows in connection with a
plot to kill the prefect Of Moscow
This contemplate woman would also
work her way into the confidence Of
families and then betray them to the
government, as consequence OF
which many persons found them
selves on their way to Siberia. No
work was too dirty for this handsome
traitress to do in pursuit Of her blood
money"
Then there was the case Of the noto-
rious French beauty, known as La
Belle Lison, who fascinated young
naval officer, Lieutenant Ullmo, who,
in order to obtain funds to crafty
the expensive whims Of this woman,
sold some of his country's secrets to
foreign power. He was discovered,
put on trial, and the most i'm
portant witness against him was the
woman who had ruined him. In the
end the young man was publicly dis
graced and sentenced to imprison-
ment for life, but nothing appears to
have been done to the woman. al
though, as Mr.. Adam truly remarks,
she ought to have been held guilty as
an accessory.-Tit-Bits
InexcusabIe Noise.-Judge William