The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
WOMEN SPIES MEET
 WITH FINE SUCCESS
Get State Secrets By Win
 ming Love of Officers

The wit of most women serves moro to strengthen their folly than their reason, and it is as the result of wom- ans 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 was at tached to the garrison at Posen, fell in love with a girl, but owing to lack of money they we're unable to marrH. A Russian secret agent learned ot this, and approaching the officer promised him sum equivalent to t5o0o Tor u plan of the fortress at Posen. After Il while the officer gave way to the temptation, but found 1t impossible, on account of the careful watch kept 10 get the plans out of the fortress.
 In his perplexity he conided in his sweetheart, and her woman's wit sng- gesteds way out of the difficulty. "you shall tattoo the plans on my rkin.. she said, and l will go to Rus sia with them. They will never discover us in that way"
 The officer accepted the fantastic and heroic suggestion and after very pafnftll process an accurate plan Of the fortress oc lis sweetheart. The girl journeyed to Russia received the reward and re- turned to her own lover and it was the silly extravagance in which they in- dulged with the money on her re turn which led the authorities to sus- pect that they had derived funds from nome jllegitimate source. They were arrested. and 1t was when the girl in accordance with prison regulations, had to be measured and inspected for pur- noses of Identification that their in- genious plan was discovered.
 That women play very prominent part in many eases Of international spving is shown by MT. H. l.. Adam in his remarkable book "Women and Crime" MT. Adam gives some startling revelations concerning young and at tractive women who win their way into the confidence of youthful military oi- fcers whom they induce to betray state secrets
 "A few years ago." he says, "a young and beautiful woman named Pe- terson was arrested at kiel Germany. on suspicion of being French spy. Posing as teacher of languages, she had entered into a love affair with a noncommissioned officer named Diet -ich. of the explosives department, for the purpose of inducing him to reveal Important German naval secrets. She had by the exercise of her arts of fas-
 
 cination, attained complete ascendancy over the young fellow, who was found 10 be supplying her with the formula for the manufacture of German smok e. less 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 disposal"
 One of the most notorious and sue cessful Russian female spies was Mme. Joutchenko, who began her career as spy at the age of 23 and was the cause of many people losing their lives and many others being sent into exile She was one of the most schemlng and treacherous of women, her method be- ing to fraternize with Russian revolr- tionaries and then betray them to the ;eovernmcnt Through her instrumen- taliiy "a young girl named Frania Trourlkin vas sent to tho gallows in connection with plot to kill the pre- feet of Moscow. This contemptible woman would also work her way into the confidence of families and then be-