The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
Henry B. Gray Spent Four Months Touring With
 Carl Hans LOdy
A GREAT FAVORITE
 ON s. s. CLEVELAND
News of His Execution Was Great Shock-known Also to Gen. l.. V. Clark and Major and
 Mrs. Tutwiler

To many Birmingham people Carl
 Hans Lody. executed as a German spy
 in the Tower of London, was we'll and
 favorbaly known. The fact that the execution of MT. Lody was the first to
 take place in the Tower of London for
 the past POO years and his acauaint-
 ance in Birmingham attracted wide
 attention in this city yesterday morn
 ing when the official announcement of
 the execution was made. He was q
 rather young man and free from care.
 which may account for the fact that
 he and Henry B. Gray, former lieu
 tenant governor of Alabama, found d
 common interest in passing many idle
 hours together on tour of the world
 during 1912.
 MT. Gray said yesterday that in ad :
 dition to himself MT. Lody was known
 by Gen. Louis V. Clark and his daugh-
 ter. Miss Augusta Clark. and by Major
 and Mrs. Tutwiler. All of them. it was
 stated found Lody to be a very like
 able chap and a thorough gentleman. MT. Gray was very much distressed yesterday over the execution of Lody
 and was not unwilling to say few things about the man who will live in history through the fact that his
 death was the first in 200 years in the famous English prison
 Was Very Likeable
 When we went around the world" " said MT. Gray, i've found in the Ham
 burg American line offices at New
 York Carl Hans Lody He was there
 to help the travellers get on their way
 and he accompanied us on that mem
 orable trip around the world. In my experience with men l have seldom seen one or have been thrown with q
 man of such charm of manner and
 such wonderful personality.
 He had been over the world many times and was, l believe. known per- sonally at every port at which we touched. He was as much at home in the wflds of Borneo as he was in Lon don and was Just as much at home in Manila as he was in New York or San Franci8oo. MT. Lody was especially | attractive to the younger persons on the boat and the ladies. He was cul- | tured and possessed a personal mag netism that was almost Irresistible. For
 four months he and l were close com
 panions on the Cleveland and invar- | iably when We stopped at any port | he and l would be in the division oi
 the passengers to inspect or look ovei | the points of interest. Mir. Lody was | at that time a reservist of the Ger | man navy, having served until giver 1 the post of lieutenant. He spoke man, | languages, how many I do not know but I know that he spoke Russian | Italian, German. French and English l These he spoke as a native of eithel
 country There was not the trace oi
 accent about his pronunciation and
 I am not at all surprised that he passed l for an American before his arrest ir i London for espionage.
 | "We did not touch a port where Lods
 was not known and found his wide ] quaintance to be of invaluable aid tc l all of the party. His good manners 1 his sense of humor and his captivat- 1 ing presence made him a favorite | among the persons on the boat as well
 as at the ports we visited. He came | back to San Francisco with us and | last saw him there being greeted by some friends who happened to be or | the wharf waiting for some other per l sons.
 Was a Modest Man
 1 'Lody was 3S years of age. I noticed l that the papers said 2S. He was born | in Germany and was, of course, sub ! ject of the German Emperor. He never
  1 when he was on our boat and scarce l ly knew until weeks later that he was l an ef-officer of the imperial navy oi | that he was a reservist. He was with all his popularity, culture and refine ment a man of extreme modesty anc l willing at all times to defer to anyone else. He made himself agreeable on all | occasions.
 l "I was extremely sorry that he had | to suffer the penalty of death in the I Tower of London. There is one thing of which I am sure and that Is that | Carl Hans Lody barred his breast tc | the fire without a flicker of an eye. l lash as he had a chance to prove thai
 once while l was acquainted with hin
 that he was a man of courage ant
 bravery of the very rarest and mos l romantic sort
 l He was known to Major and Mrs | Tutwiler of Birmingham and to Gen eral Clark and Miss Augusta Clark quite we'll They had crossed with hin | from the earlier accounts of his troubl, 1 that he would be given a sentence ant 1 at the expiration of the war be se
 free again. but it appears that tn, | English are not inclined to transact
 business that way. I had hoped also | that in view of the fact that he wal 1 not in the war zone that his punish
 ment would be somewhat milder thai l it was. As it is he may live in his l tory as a second Nathan Hale. I an | quite sure that there could be no great 1 CT indication of courage and braver. i than his refusal to disclose his supe riors even in the face of the sugges tion that perhaps he could escape suf fering death by that act. If he hat
 shown such an utter lack of the cour 1 age which I was sure he possessed ! would have been disappointed in th | man that I came to respect and ad 1 mire as only gentlemen and soldier are entitled to be respected and ad |