New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Daughter of Late Adolphus
Busch Knew Count
and Mime. Nix
Photograph Reveals
Intimate Friendship
Titled Prisoner Expected to
Marry Woman Mill
ionaire

Mrs. Hugo Reisinger, daughter OF
the late Adolphus Busch, the st. Louis
brewer, will be questioned this morn
ing by agents Of the Department. OF
Justice about her associations with GER
+a;n members Of the alleged spy ring
now at Ellis Island waiting deportation
to France, where they will be tried on
charges Of treason.
Mrs. Reisinger is said to have been
we'll acquainted with the Count ROBERT
do Clairmont and Nine. Nix, two OF the
nlotters. Immediately after the pub
iicat;on of the fact that Mrs. Reislnger
was in any way connected with any OF
tho spies strenuous efforts were made
to discredit the evidence against the
nlotters. Dispatches from Washington
nuoted government agents there as
saving that the attention Of the au-
thorities was directed against the quar-
tet because of love affair between
Nine. Storch and neutral d1piomas
and that they were not to be deporteo
as spies, but as undesirables.
Knew Count Intimately
II is known that Charles De Woody,
head of the local bureau OF the De.
partment of Justice, who has conducted
the entire investigation, has not as ye1
made any detailed report to Washing-
+on on the case. At the headquarters
~ tho Department of Justice in Wash
;noton il was denied that the quartet
was being deported as undesirables.
All day yesterday evidence OF the IN
+imacv between Mrs. Reisinger ana
Count de Clairmont poured into the
hands of Federal agents. 1t was
learned that last summer the Two hao
snent much time together at Jersey re-
sorts and had had many photographs
taken together. They are said TO nave ave
motored about, visiting the coun.,y ,
clubs in and around Lakewood aiio ~
have frequently dined together at 7T, ene e
fashionable hotels of that place. lnere
,ras nersistent rumor at one time
thst the count was to marry the
wealthy Gcrman-American woman.
During this time, when de Clalrmon'
was courting Mrs. Reisinger. ne was
also busily engaged with the plot.el;s
in carving en- German espionage wors
in this country. Nine. Nix, who is no"
locked upon by Federal agents as thf
master mind in the spy ring, was alse
verv friendly toward Mrs. Re'slnger'
Husband German Agent
,ir,e Nix was shown in new ligh
yesterday when agents Of the Depart
ment of Justice learned IN searchln
her papers that her husband IS an OF
ficer in the German intelligence SCI ,
Vice. which directs the activities OF Tn
Kaiser's secret agents IN all paris
the world.
At Ellis Island Mrs. Nix is reporte
as prostrated in the detention pei
She pleaded so taarfully for her chi
dren Yesterday that Federal agent
We're sent up to Greenwich, Conn
where they have been attending an e. e.
elusive boarding school, and brougf
them to the city. When the woman
deported in all probability the chlldre
will be sent across the Atlantic VIII
her. =, -,
Nine. Despina Davidovitch Store
the Young Turkish woman who VIZ
thought to be the leader ,,1; Of the e, $ 81 !
band, is Mortified in the Elhs lslaI
pen at the possibility of being turnt
over to the French authorities. 4
times she raves, and other times 81
breaks down and weeps, declaring NJ
arrest is mistake She has lost n
naughty pose and is much perturbts
over the predicament in which 81
finds herself.
An interesting phase Of the develo
ments of yesterday was the TACT IN
the acquaintance of Mrs. Relsinger al
de Clairmont was discovered throu'
nicture of the two taken some tlr
200 bv a Fifth Avenue Photographic