The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-11-30

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at the Embassy opened the letter and
laid it, as matter OF routine, on the
Ambassadors desk. Bernstorf ap-
peared on Tuesday, and as soon as he
read 1t he telephoued DR.. Albert to
come to Washington.
The two men met the following
morning at the Embassy and en-
braced In the presence of the Journal
reporter And the first words DR..
Albert spoke were to praise his Ex-
cellency upon his choice of so dis
Greet and admirable an agent" as he
had sent to him in New York. Then
there was scene. Bernstorff denied
sending any messenger, and Albert re-
affirmed it. The mail clerk was called
in, and declared he had slit the en-
velope with his own hand. Albert re-
peated that he had had that very let
ter, physically, back in his hand from
the messenger. on Sunday. Results:
Two badly perturbed agents of the
Kaiser, and the ultimate exposure of
DR.. Albert in the Providence Journal.
How Won Papen Was Caught.
Another episode among Mr.. Rath-
om's many adventures into the intra-
cacies of German intrigue is known
in the Journal office as THE Case of
the Two Hearts" He had caught the
trail Of Won Papen when this happen
ed. Won Papen, in the course of his
duties here, had accumulated large
mass of letters, receipts, reports OF
plots to blow up munition plants and
American ships, and other documents
that would be as useful to the United
States and England as to Berlin. eve
were still neutral and the Kaiser still
addressed the President in friendly
messages). AS they often did, the
Germans used the Austrian diplomatic
channels to get this treacherous cor
respondence to Berlin. Hence Won
Papen was packing his documents in a
box in the office Of the Austrian Con-
sulate-G General in New York for ship
ment on the Oscar II. The stenograph-
er in the office had been on the job
only a few months. Before that she
had never done anything more exciting
than to take dictation in the office of
the Journal, though, Of course, that
was not mentioned when she applied
for the place She knew what was
going into the box and had reported
it. and she had instructions to mark
the case so that it could be identified
later. The day it was nailed up for
shipment she ate her luncheon seated
on the top of it. When she was in the
midst of her meal, Won Papen came in.
He asked if he might share her sand.
wiches She consented. They sat on
the box together He grew sentiment
al. She did not discourage his poet
ical mood At it's height she took a
red crayon pencil from her hair and
| in a dreamy way drew, on the packing
| box, the outline of two hearts en-
twined. The susceptible Won Papen
| in the spirit of the moment, seized the
pencil and with his own hand drew
an arrow piercing them. And so II
was that when the British secret serv
| ice agents inspected the cargo Of the
Oscar L. when it touched Falmouth
| they took particular pains to look fol
| the box marked with two read hearts
and an arrow-and found it. And ulti
mately the Providence Journal publish
ed such full and intimate details o.
the sentimental Won Papen's career ii
/ America that he was invited to leave
| the country
Episode number three. and the las
/ TO De lOlQ Q6T0-MT. ftdIuOlu, III LII
articles, will tell others more import
ant-illustrates not only one of thu
/ many methods used to gather evidence
| but also the cheering fact that some
German-An1ericans are just American,
and Of the most loyal kind at that. Mr.
Rathom discovered that the offices o
a great German steamship compan!
in New York were in reality brancl
of the German Government and hot
bed of German intrigue, and he de
termined to get access to their rec
ords One of his reporters was littl'
more than a boy, the son OF German
parents. They were good Americans
though, and the boy himself was al
/ ardent patriot Under instructions b,
went back from Providence to hi
birthplace at Lima, Ohio, and Their
he wrote a letter to the general man
ager of the steamship line in New
York. He had a brother, so he wrote
who was telegraph operator in Prov
idence and acquainted with one of tn
telegraph operators on the Providence
Journal. Through this channel b
learned that the Providence Journa
planned to install one of it's men Il
the office of this German teamshil
company in the guise of a janitor ST