New-York tribune., 1918-03-20

of $1,000 month since she landed in
this country
Her wardrobe examined by agents Of
the Department of Justice III the But
more showed that the beautiful Turkish
ter Of wearing apparel. She had more
than one hundred expensive gowns,
which were the product of the best
modistes in Europe and America;
thlrty-two hats of thc latest design,
and more expensive furs than are car
ried in stock in some of the we'll known
establishments on Fifth Avenue. She
also had fortvtwo pairs of shoes, with
several pairs of stockings to match each
pair. Her bills for flowers ranged from
$40 to $40 a day during her long stay
at the Biltmore. She spent as high as
$50 day for taxi fare.
Only once in her career of romance
did true love enter her heart. That
was when she was in Spain and she was
Wooed by brilliant young Spanish army
officer. who, when he realized that she
was just using him to attain an end,
attempted suicide. This episode in her
life the woman spoke of with regret,
for although she was fond Of the man
her jilt him.
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Yesterday Mr.. De Woody told how,
IN her preliminary examinations, Nine.
Storch. who is remarkable lingust,
professed to be ignorant of the Ger
man language She said she did not
understand German, nor could she read
It. One day while she was being ques-
toned, agents of the Department of
Justice turned the conversation into
German and the woman quite uncon-
sciously picked up with them and spoke
the language with ease. The woman.
according to Federal agents, has
fluent command of French, Russian,
German and Spanish and speaks excel
lent English.
During the two weeks she was being
questioned before her arrest she fire.
quently would tell friends how she
fooled Mr. De Woody and his staff and
anything on her. However. she did
not know at the time that these init
1nates of hers were operatives Of the
Federal government and that Mr. De
Woody knew all the time just what she
thought of him.
Trailed by Scotland Yard
During this period she would never
acknowledge to Dc Woody or his as
sistants that she had used the alias
Nine. Hesketh while in England. 1t is
known that Scotland Yard was on her
trail while she was living at the Savoy,
in London, under this name. Finally
when confronted with correspondence
seized in her safe deposit vault adj
dressed to Nine. Hesketh, she tried to
explain to Mr.. De Woody that she had
known such woman very we'll. and had
probably, while in this woman's apart
ments, unconsciously put personal let
ter IN a wrong envelope. The letter in
the envelope was addressed to Nine
NeZia. one of the various aliases under
which the woman travelled.
She said she left her luxurious
apartments in the Savoy in London be-
cause of her fear of air raids. She
went to Lisbon, where she stayed a
short time, and then to Madrid, where
she first appeared as the Barone;s dc
Bevllle. Her arrest in Madrid caused
her to cut her stay in Spain short, This
was in 1915, just prior to her appear
ancs in this country.
The fact. that the spies have used
| letters as a means of conveying in
formation is being looked into by Mr..
De Woody. He said yesterday that he
was confident that some means Of es-
Gaping the censor had been employed.
but that, for the present. he would
rake nothing public about the methods.
1t is thought that the government knows
Just how the mail reached the other
side of the Atlantic
Claims French Citizenship
Nine. Storcn was married when she
was sixteen years old to q French
army officer, and bases her claim of
French citizenship on this fact She
was Mortified when told that the French
government wanted her to try her on
charges of treason. She protested her
innocence of any wrongdoing, and said
that her arrest was a great mistake
AS the result OF the wide publicity
( given the arrest of the four spies many
additional leads were furnished the
+ Department of Justice yesterday by
patriotic citizens anxious to assist in
stamping out the menace of Prussian
espionage. Important developments
are expected within a few days
II was learned last night that the
Army Intelligence Bureau in Washing
tton had been investigating the activi-
ties of Nine Nix for some time prior
to her arrest. The status of this WON
an is rot yet cleared up, and there is
some double as to whether she will be
dcported TO France or Italy. She is a
German and came to this country with
the Count Robert de Clairmont from
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