The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-24
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FEMALE SPIES
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~ W " ii serves more
to strengthen their folly than their
reason" and it is AS the result of WON.
ans wit that a brilliant young Ger
man offlcer is at the moment of writ
ing !ansuishing in prison under the
terrible charge of high treason, while
ms sweetheart has also been arrested
as his accomplish. The affair is n
OF the o romantic cases of espion-
g on record. The officer, who was
attached to the garrison at Posen. fell
IN love with a girl, but owing to lack
OF money they were unable to marry.
A Russian secret agent learned of this.
and approaching the officer promised
MIN a sum equivalent to $4,000 for
a plan of the fortress at Posen. After
a while the officer gave way to the
temptation. but found it impossible, on
account or tho careful watch kept, to
get the plans cut of the fortress.
In his perplcxity he confided in his
sweetheart and her wornan's wit sug-
gested a way III of the difficulty.
You shall tattoo the plans on my
skim" she said. land | will 90 to Rus
STA with them. They will never dis
cover us in that way"
The officer accepted the fanta site
and heroic suggestion. and after a
cry 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 one
on her return which led the authori-
tics to suspect that they had derived
funds from some illegitimate source.
they We're arrested. and it was when
the girl, in accordance with prison
regulations. had to be measured and
Inspected for purposes Of identifca-
ton that their ingenious plan was dis
covered.
That women pay a very prominent
part In many cases of international
spying is shown by Fl. l.. Adam in
his remarkable book. "Woman and
Crime Mr.. Adam gives some start
ing revelations concerning Young and
attractive women who win their wa
into the confidence of youthful mill
tary officers. whom they induce to be-
tray state secrets.
"A few years ago." he saws "a
young and beautiful named
Peterson was arrested at Kiel. in Ger
many, on suspicion of being a French
spy. Posing as a teacher of languages,
she had entered into a love affair with
a non-commissioned officer named
Dietrich of the explosives department,
for the purpose of inducing him to re-
veal important German navel secrets.
She had, by the exercise of her arts of
fascination. attained complete ascend
ancy over the young fellow, who was
found to be supplying her with the
ormul for the manufacture of Ger
man smokeless powder and the situa-
ton of port mines. The attention of
the authorities was first drawn to her
by the ample funds she always seemed
to have at her disposal"
One of the most notorious and sue
cessful Russian female spies was Nine,
~Joutchenko, who began her career as
a spy at the g of 90. and was the
cause of many people losing their lives
and many others being sent into ex-
lie. She was one of the most schem-
ing and treacherous of women. her
method being to fraternize with Rus
sian revolutionaries and then betray
them to the government. Through
her instrumentality a young girl nam
ed Frania Froumkin was sent to the
gallows in connection with a plot to
XII the Project of Moscow. This CON
temptfble woman would also work her
way into the condence of families and
then betray them to the government,
as a consequence of which many per-
sons found themselves on their way to
Siberia. No work was too dirty for
this handsome traitress to do in pur-
suit of her blood money"
Then there was the case of the no.
torious French beauty. known as La
Belle Lison. who fascinated a 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 a for
cign power. He vas discovered, put
on trial. and the most important wit
ness against him was the woman who
had ruined him. In the end the young
man was publicly d%isgraced and SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life, but
nothing appears to have been done to
the woman. although. as Mr.. Adam
truly remarks. she ought to have been