The Ordway new era., 1917-07-13

r "Why. l don't understand. But hi
" majesty told me that you would ex
plain. The young lady and her mother
are friends Of mine"
~ Exactly. That's just I'll" he eN
,. claimed. "You apparently know but
:. little of them-eh?-or you would moi
Il call them your friends!'
n These words surprised me. but was
y the more astounded when he contin-
Q ued:
. you Of course know of those dis
, graceful anonymous letters which have
been continually arriving at court-of
, the emperor's fury concerning Them
I replied in the affirmative, for, as n
: matter of fact. for the past three
months the whole court had been food
ed with most abusive and disgraceful
correspondence concerning the rama-
rilla that had again sprung up around
the kaiser. The emperor. the empress,
the crown prince and princess. Prince
Eitel Sophie Caroline. Prince Henry Of
Prussia and others had received let
tiers, most OF them in typewriting. con-
tanning the most intimate details Of
scandals concerning men and women
around the emperor.
Fully dozen Of these letters ad-
dressed to the crown prince he had
handed to me-letters denouncing In
some cases perfectly innocent people.
destroying the regulations Of honest
men and women. and abusing the heir
to the throne In an outrageous manner.
On at least three occasions "Wlllie"
had shown me letters addressed to the
kaiser himself, and Intercepted by the
kaiserin, who. in consequence of this
: flood of anonymous epistles that had
produced such terrible sensation Mt
Potsdam. had ordered that all such
t letters found In the imperial postbag
r should be handed at once to her.
l 1.-THE identity of the writer Is the
point that Is engaging my attention"
9 the baron said as he opened drawer
: and drew forth bundle of quite n
=" hundred letters, adding: "All these
Il that you see here have been addressed
either to the emperor or the empress"
n and he handed me one, which on scan.
Is ming l saw contained some outrageous
le statements. allegations which would
2, make the hair of the all-highest bristle
he with rage.
IN SWELL" I exclaimed, THAT certainly
Is very interesting specimen o.
ie anonymous -spOndence."
"Yes, it is" exclaimed the baron
ie I'm Berlin every inquiry has been mad
IT, to trace its author. Schunke (head o
'e the detective police) was charged b.
the emperor to investigate He did sc
IS and both he and Klewitz failed utterl,
e. Now 1t has been given into my hands.
A Typical German Investigation.
n Presently, when I sat with the baro
'r- at his table, he switched on an intens
~. electric light and then spread out som
*. of the letters above a small, suuar
e.' mirror.
e's 'You see they are on various kint
ee Of note paper, bearing all kinds of W,
10 termarks, Of French, English and Ge
nu man manufacture. Some we have he,
es are upon English paper, because 1t
heavy and thick. Again, three diffe
DIN ent makes Of typewriter have bee
used-one newly invented import
es- tion from America. The written le
ex- ters are, you will see, mostly In
nd mans hand"
as "Yes, I see al, that" I said. "B
what have you discovered concernIl
TO their author? The letter I receiv,
ng bore French stamp and the postma
of Angers."
iai He placed before me quite a doz
sht envelopes addressed to the emper
and empress, all bearing the postma
of that town in the Maine-et-LoIl
iv- Others had been posted in Leipz
ve- Wllhelmshaven. Tours, Antwerp, B,
ge. lin, Wilmersdorf and other places.
ute "The investigation is exceeding
md difficult, can assure you," he said.
he have had the assistance Of some of t
mt, best scientific brains of our empire
Of making comparisons and analyses. ).
tue deed, Professor Harbge is with me I,
the Berlin"
yed A few minutes later the profess
himself, an elderly, spectacled man
his gray tweeds, entered the room.
me knew him and greeted him.
sixteen different varieties Of IA,
elt- have been received ut the Neues a
the Marmor palaces" the baron remark
au- "Well, I have worked for two mont
TT night and day, upon the inquiry.
ave have discovered that eleven Of ID,
varieties ok paper can BE- purchai