The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-20

trauleln Elise and stood gazing AZ
lit at is quite plain why you should
have been sent by His Majesty" .
why. I don't understand. But
His Majesty told me that you would
explain. The young lady and her
mother are friends Of mine"
Exactly. That's just It! he ex-
claimed. You apparently know but
little of them-eh?-or you would
not call them your friends"
Those words surprised me, but 1
was the more astounded when he
continued:
"You, OF course. know of those dis
graceful anonymous letters which
have been continually arriving at
court-of the Emperor's fury con-
corning them"
Intimate Details Given.
replied in the affirmative, for, as
matter Of fact. for the past three
months the whole court had been
flooded with most abusive and dis
graceful correspondence concerning
the camarilla that had again sprung
up around the Kaiser. The EN-
peror, the Empress, the crown prince.
and princess, Prince Eitel, Sophie
Caroline. Prince Henry OF Prussia,
and others had received letters, most
OF them in typewriting, containing
the most intimate details of scandals
concerning men and women around
the Emperor.
Fully a 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 man
ner.
On at least three occasions willie"
had shown me letters addressed TO
the Kaiser himself. and intercepted
by the Kaiserin. who in consequence
OF this flood OF anonymous eplstles
that had produced such terrible sen
sation at Potsdam, had ordered that
/ all such letters in the imperial post
| bag be handed at once to her.
The identity OF the writer is the
point that Is engaging my attention,
the baron said, as he opened a drawer
and drew forth q bundle of quite a
hundred letters, adding: "All these
that you see here have been address
ed either to the Emperor or the EN-
press" and he handed me one. which
on scanning saw contained some
outrageous statement, allegations
which would make the hair OF the
all highest bristle with rage.
WELL" ! exclaimed. shat certain
ly Is q very interesting specimen OF
anonymous correspondence"
"Yes, II is"" exclaimed the baron.
'Tn Berlin every inquiry has been
made to trace its author. Schunke
(head OF the detective police) was
charged by the Emperor to investi-
gate. He did so. and both he and
Klewitz failed utterly. Now II has
been given into my hands"
Typical German Investigator.
Presently. when sat with the
baron at his table, he switched on an
incense electric light and then spread
out some of the letters, above a small.
square mirror.
you see. they are on various kinds
OF notepaper. bearing all kinds of
watermarks, of French. English, and
German manufacture. Some we have
here are upon English paper. because
II Is heavy and thick. Again, three
different makes OF typewriter have
been used-one a newly i'm
portatIon from America. The written
letters are. you will see, mostly in a
mans hand"
Yes. / see all that" I said. But
their author? The letter ! received
bore a French stamp and the post
mark OF Anglers"
He placed before me quite a dozen
envelopes addressed to the Emperor
and Empress, all bearing the post
mark Of that town in the Maine-et-
Loire. Others had been posted at
Leipzig. wilhelmshaven. Tours. Ant
werp. Berlin-W ilmersdorf, and other
places.
THE investigation is exceedingly
difficult. I can assure you" he said. Il
have had the assistance OF some OF the
best scientific brains OF our empire in
making comparisons and analyses
Indeed. Prof. Harbge is with me from
Berlin"
few minutes later the professor
himself. an elderly specialized man in
gray tweeds. entered the room.
knew him and greeted him.
Finds Distinctive Paper.
sixteen different varieties OF paper
have been received at the Neues and
Marmor palaces" the baron remarked
We'll. I have worked for two months
night and day. upon the inquiry.
! have discovered that eleven of these
varieties OF paper can be purchased
! at a certain small stationer's shop
; I.ancry's. in the Boulevard Hauss-
mann. close to the Printemps.' One
paper especially is sold nowhere else
in Paris II Is this"
He held over a mirror letter upon
a small sheet oEnotepaper bearing the
Watermark of bulls head.
That paper was made at a mill in
the south Of Devonshire in England
DESTROYED by FIRE five years ago. Paper
OF that make cannot be obtained any
where else in France" he declared.
at once realized how much
, patience must have been expended up.
on the inquiry, and said:
"Then YOU have actually fixed the
shop where the writer purchased his
paper?"
yes" he replied. "And we know
that the newIy-invented typewriter
a specimen one, was sold by the Mai
son Audibert, in Marseilles. The
, purchaser Of the typewriter in Mar
settles purchases his paper and en-
, yelopes at Lancry's, in the Boule.
ward Hausemann.
"SplendIdw ] said, for IT was cleal
7 that the baron, with the thousand
and-one secret agents at his becl
=, and call, had been able, with the pro
! fessor's aid, to FIX the source Of th'
stationery. But" l added, what IL
wanted from meg" Why, ! wondered
had mis- majesty sent the baron tina
photograph OF Elise Breitenbach?
ct want you to go with me to thu
central door OF the 'Printemps' at