Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-27
YOUNG SHOPE
WAS GRILLEO
Son Of BARONESS ZOIIner Closeted
With U. 5. District Attorney
Kennerly
YOUTH DISPLAYS CLEvERNESS
Youth Proves VeritabIe Record Beck
And Displays cleverness while
Being Quizzed by District At
torney Spaldiug TO Appear

Dci1s QuiLLco ny OlSttlcl Ak-
torney SpaldiBg to Appear
UHted States District Attorney Ken
nerly, Of Knoxville. arrived at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, Friday night to repre-
sent the government in the trial OF
Baroness Iona Zollner, charged with
espionage, which was held Saturday
morning before United States Commits
sioner McAlester in the Federal
Building.
Mr.. Kennerly would not express an
opinion on any phase of the case He
met young Bedford Shope, who went
there last Thursday night from New
York at the request of his mother, and
| questioned him for several hours at
he Hotel Patten
No specific charge had been regis
tered against the baroness other than
the broad accusation that she is an
alien enemy and is guilty Of espion-
age. Under the espionage act a num-
Der of charges are referred to with
various notifications as to the penal
ties.
Lieut. Spalding viii be brought in
o court and viii be placed on the
stand The testimony will be heard
by the nspector-general at the post
who Will investigate the case against
Spalding from the standpoint of his
arrest by the military authorities.
Young Shope has proven most
cheerful and philosophic since his or
rival Tie is youth Of very aigh
mental type, and has extremely nerv-
Gus characteristics. His use OF the
English language is wonderful for q
boy Of 16 years, and his accent is
pleasing He stated that the foreign
accent with which he speaks is not
German by any means, but a mixture
Of foreign brogues as a result Of his
extensive travel throughout Europe.
and his long stay in England He
stated to O reporter that he is not the
son of Zollner, the alleged baron, but
the offspring Of Warren shope an
American.
@It has been -tAe bane OF my life to
be called q Kolberg or a ZoIlner
saia Bedford shope. My fathers
brother married cousin OF Presi-
dent Wilson, who is now Mrs. VIII
lam Crehs Shope. Ny mothers name
was Pickhardt, her father being OF
French descent.
II am labbergasted at the rather
extraordinary charges. against mother
Those weird kilograms and messages
are easily explainable And as to the
name Preacher, used by Spaiding,
can say that he has always been call
ed Preacher because Of his antics at
the dinner table while in school
There's nothing unusual in that
wired my mother that an anticipated
operation on my throat had been post
poned, and, il you please. they consid-
er that code.
Mr.. Kennerly found the young man
veritable record book Dates from
the birth OF his mothers father to the
marriage of the baroness to Zoliner.
the German officer, were reeled of
endlessly Hours Of arrivals to and
fro from various places on the old
continent were given without hesita-
ton. In fact, the family history Of
the Pickhardts, the Slopes, the Kol-
bergs, the Zollners and their friends
Is imprinted on the boys mind as If it
were set out in a book of records. He
stated thai Zollner does not bear the
title of baron, but that his mother had
! married Baron Kolberg, a member Of
the royalty in Germany, and has re-
tanned the title after her divorce. He
| told OF his mothers c5urtship with
- ~ off m
marry her. which bore fruit after the
/ German had threatened to commit sui
eide
He related that his second step
| father was on his way from the Malay
Islands to England when war broke
out. and was interned in a concentra-
ton camp in England for two weeks
| and was released on parole with the
| understanding not to take up arms
against England He told Of Zoll-
ner's coming to this country in 1914
| with his wife and children, and his re-
turn TO Europe TO become an active
| member of the German army. The
boy stated that his mother has always
been able TO get news to her husband
through Mrs. Paul Turstig. resident
Of Holland, and that the German cap
tain in this manner conveyed word 70
the States since the declaration Of war
BY the United States On Germany
That SpaIding IS infatuated with the
baroness was stated by the boy who
| said that he was always opposed to
spaldings attention to his mother, as
he was considered the head of the
! house in the absence Of his father.
/ he told OF Spalding's roonling at vari-
lous boarding houses wheTe his mother
l,ived in Annapolis. and explained that
the baroness pawned q diamond
brooch in washington in order TO de-
| fray Spalding's expenses 10 Fort
I4,eavenworth after the lieutenant had
| received his commission. He said that
his mother came to Chattanooga TO say
good-bye to Spalding, as she under
stood the soldier would leave soon for
France
Bedford Shope was clever through
| out the questioning. displaying Won