Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1914-11-20
Revelations of the Kaiser's
Personal Spy
By d.. Aymeaard Karl Grapes
Win, for a Number Of Years Prior to His Arre,t and
Betrayal IN England IN 1912, was Emperor
Wlliams Most Trusted Personal Spy.
By Dr.. Armgaard Karl Craues
cepsrish.. .e.4. b. tAs Whsslsr SYNDICATE. Ioe.)

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called my landlady and casually In
CURED II my tailor had been there.
She said. "No, Doctor"
WELL" I replied. "what reason have
you then to rearrange my clothes?"
Her face REDEEMED and she seemed
dustered.
Il wasn't in your ROOM" she fall
tered. Il remember now. believe the
tailor was here. One of the servants
let him in"
1 made 1t my business to go around
to my tailor's within an hours time
and he contradicted her story. He had
not been at the house.
recognized 1t as an occasion where
had to make right royal bluff.
went at once to police headquarters in
Edinburgh. asked for Chief Con-
stable Ross, and sent in my card bear
ing DR.. A. K. Graves, 'uro. s. Austria
liza. Presently I was shown into the
cn1efs room and was received by q
typical Scottish gentleman. opened
fire in this way:
Have you any reason to believe
that am a German spy?"
I saw that it had knocked him OF
his pins.
why, no." he said, startled. Il
don't know anything at all about II"
TITS not by your orders, then, that
l am followed?"
Certainly not" he replied.
He bowed me out. OF course. I
knew ! still would be Swallowed, which
did not mind in the least
A Wrongly Addressed Letter.
About week after my experience
with Constable Ross, I received infor-
nation that William Beardmore & Co.,
OF Glasgow, were constructing some
new 14-inch guns for the British gov.
eminent That meant q change Of
base.
at once made 1t my business to go
to Glasgow and get particulars. in
stalled myself in the Central station
hotel, and In a few weeks gained all
the information l wanted. While in
Glasgow 1 received letters addressed
to me as James Stafford. received
two such letters. and upon calling at
the General Post Office for third. /
was informed that there was q letter
for A. Stafford.
oh. yes, that is my letter." I said.
The clerk demufreds and replied: <.
you asked for James Stafford. IN
der those circumstances cannot hand
you this letter. It is against the postal
law" @i
Not being in a position to raise .
question, I let It 60 at that, never for
a moment thinking that my employers
would be so culpably careless as to
put any discriminating evidence In the
mail. Events proved that that 10 just
what they did. Moreover, l later came
to know why that particular letter
was addressed not to James but to A.
Stafford. All my previous letters were
addressed to me as DR.. A. K. Graves
and were enclosed in the business en-
velope Of well-known chemical firm
of Snow Hill, London, e. (Which
paper had been fabricated for the pur.
pose. OF course, the letters were sent
from the continent to London and
there reposted.
When left Edinburgh to lind out
about the 14-inch guns, gave our
people in London instructions to use
plain envelopes and to address them
to James Stafford, g. P. O.. Glasgow.
The first two letters were addressed
correctly and plain envelopes were
used. The third was not only mis-
addressed, but was enclosed in one Of
the Chemical company's. envelopes
this, as later learned. for q reason.
No one having called for It, the let
ter was returned to the chemical COM
pany. At their ofice 1t was opened
and found to contain q. typewriter.
letter In German language and five
ten.pound notes on the Bank Of Eng
land. The contents Of the letter was
such 40 to lead the firm to call in the
police.
"There's Gentleman Down Stairs to
See You"
On the evening Of April IA, / had
Just put on my evening clothes and
gone to the upstairs writing.room: I
was awaiting party Of. gentlemen
who were coming to dine: With me iii
the hotel. There came Q buttons"
who announced:
There's = gentleman downstairs To
90 you. Doctor"
A premonition stole over ma I
knew that my guests would not have
sent for me to come down but von,d
have been announced. I realised mn
II was going to be caught there m
no avoiding It. Secret. service mafea 4
man q fatalist.
I had hardly reached the last stan a,
the grand stairway when four hir
plain-clothes men bounced upon rne
More for the fun Of It than anythinc
else, guess. got on my horse ma
demanded to know what was the mn.
ter.
you'll soon know" Inspector French
declared.
The seareh-and Prison.
He then ordered his men to search
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