The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-04-28
NAB WOMAN AID
OF MASTER SPY
L. s. Officers Led on Wild
Chase on West Side for
kaiser's Agent Here.
FEAR HE GOT WARNING
Suspect Used German Gold
Freely and Stirred Up Sim
Feiners in L. s.
FEAR HE GOT WARNING

Lieutenant-C Commander X. OF the
German navy Is the Kaiser's master spy
in this country. There have been other
master spies. Of course. but they are In
prison or intsrnnent camps. Lieuteh-
ant-Commander Y. has succeeded them
In command. s.,
Naturally agents OF the Federal Gov
ernment are extremely anxious 2"
make the acquaintance OF Herr Oefizier
X and they invited Nine. Louise
| victorica 70 assist them. The invita-
, ton was courteous. as was the due OF a
lady. but it was urgent. In fact It was
backed by q polite threat.
Madame promised II, comply and kept
promising. Last nieht she led agents
Of the Department OF Justice and the
ether spy hunting experts on a wild
goose chase through the crosstown
(! streets OF the upper West Side.
=. cannot remember tne street or the
number OF Lieutenant Commander XII
home," she told the sleuths. but 1t is a
house easily recognized. Perhaps II We
canvass the district I shall be able &c
Identify II. have been there"
1t was pleasant night and the
| Super-Sleuth Six was hitting on al
cylinders, but eventually Capt. Roger
e. Hull OF the Enemy Allen Bureau
tired Of the ride and the lady's company
So the prov Of the S. 3. s. was turned
southwark and Mme Nictor!ca. together
with her maid" a Miss Sullivan. wa
taken into custody. Madame was lodged
in the prison ward at Bellevue.
she Speut Money Freely.
disappointed at not getting her su
pcrior. Capt. Hull insists Nine. Victor
lea Is pretty big game herself. a. sh'
has spent $4,000 OF German propa
ganda money in the United States In th'
last fourteen months. She has beer
living at the Waldorf Astoria. the Hote
Netheriand and on Long Island. He
work, It 10 charged. was principal!
among the excitable faction o: Irish
men who fell Tor the Sim Fe'n mad
ness.
Next TO the Turkish beauty. Mime
Storch, who died on Ellis Island. Mime
VictorIca is declared to be the cleveres
and most dangerous woman spy tn
Government has picked up since war be
gan.
She has packed a great deal into he
| thirty three years-two husbands, 70
instance also courses OF study In Ber
lin. Heidelburg and Zurich, a long tern
residence in South America and IN
acquisition of perfect French. Spanis
and English, II goes without sayin
she speaks faultless German.
After several days OF tactful negotia
} t!ons, having for their aim the disclo
sure OF the whereabouts Of Lieutenant
. Commander y. Capt. Hull and John {
Knox. Judge Of the Federal Distric
Court, who relinauisned his office as a.
Assistant United States Attorney yester
day. decided that there was little hop
OF finding the man they seek throug
, Nine. V!ctorica-
. They caused her to be apprehende
with her maid. Margaret Sullivan. Mis-
sullivan was committed last night I
, the Florence Crittenton Home. wher
, she will be held as material witness
Miss sullivan. although servant wa
, paid 500 month by Nine. Victories
and she IL said to have rented n room |
a boarding house In Brooklyn. where sh
never slept. The room was engaged, nc
cordng to Federal agents. SO that IN
address might be used to receive letter.
Master SPY Gets Warming.
Capt. Hull said last night that ther
o Ia little doubt that the master spy hs
> received warning that he 10 being souSf
. and that the task OF catching him hs
. become difficult.
Capt Hull would give no informatio
= about the master spy except to quo'
. Mime. Victorica a. saying that she MI
= him In Hamburg In October. 1915. II
came to the United States In Decembe
llsis. She came here In January. 1871
Z Mime. Victorca denies that she wOrkt
e FOR the master spy with the specif
X assignment Of stirring up unrest anon
y unassimilated Irishmen. She denies q
i OF the Governments suspicious ar
I charges concerning her.
d She became 70 nervous last night
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