Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-04

of Europe, and spreading the net for
indiscreet attaches and military and
naval officers.
"Crime too Great"
"I believe you were trapped by
woman who is the agent Of some for
eign country Because believe that.
l am going to show some sort of
leniency for you, but it cannot be
much-the crime is too great"
1t was after making these trenchant
remarks that Mr.. Justice Darling
some time ago sentenced a gunner in
the British navy to four years penal
servitude for communicating naval
secrets to a foreign Power, the case
providing a striking illustration Of
how home women employed as spies
go to work to secure naval and mill
tary secrets.
This gunner made the acquaintance
Of a woman at a music hall, and i'm
mediately become one of her most
ardent admirers So much so, in fact,
that he forgot his duty and complied
with her wishes when she asked him
to provide her with information re-
garding secrets of the navy.
The Gibraltar Sensation.
The case calls to mind the Gibralter
sensation, when it was discovered
some years ago that Germany possess
ad a fairly accurate drawing Of the
defenses Of the key to the Mediter-
ranean. Investigations were made by
the British Secret Service, and it was
then discovered that a beautiful girl,
who had taken up her residence at the
Rock, and who was extremely popular
with numbers Of the officers with whom
she danced and flirted, was in reality
a German spy, who was using her
power Of fascination to extract Sc
cret information from her admirers.
Needless to say, she was quickly
shown the way back to Berlin.
All countries spy, however. although
England's Secret Service system and
that of France, Russia and other
Powers cannot be said to be as perfect
as that of Germany. Moreover, the lat
ter seems more alert in the matter of
detecting spies in their own country.
In May last no little sensation was
caused in Berlin by the sentencing of
Rosa Langstein to two years and six
months penal servitude for admitted
betrayal of military secrets.
A Bohemian by birth, she was en-
ployed as a lady clerk in business
houses in Frankfort, Berlin and other
cities, and being in need Of money,
endeavored to raise it in Hamburg,
Cologne and Paris by espionage. 1t
was related at the trial how, at the
end Of 1912, she endeavored to sell
Austrian military secrets to the French
and German Consulates in Berlin.
Ultimately she made the acquaintance
Of a dockyard locksmith in Ham,
burg, who stole and gave her draw
ings of some machinery in German
warship. One of her letters fell into
the hands Of the German police, who
enticed her to Cologne by means Of
a trick, and there arrested her.
Romance of Marie Petersen.
Germany also had shock last year
when it was discovered that a beau
tiful young woman named Marie
Petersen, who had been living at Keil,
was really a French spy. Ostensibly
a teacher of languages, she had made
use Of her great beauty to entrap a
non- commissioned officer named Diet
rich, connected with the German ex-
plosives department. So madly in
love was he with her that when she
told him she would have to leave him
unless he helped her, he gave her
plans Of the situation of mines in
certain ports and the formula en-
ployed in making Germany's smoke
less powder.
But Marie Petersen brought sus-
picion on herself by the fact that, al
though she was supposed to be earn
ing her living by tea aching, she always
had plenty Of money and wore beauti-
full jewels. Inquiries were made by the
authorities and the whole plot frus-
trated.