The sun., 1918-03-19
TURKISH WOMAN
SEIZED HERE
AS SPY SUSPECT
French Baron. a Count and
a German Widow Also
to BE Deported.
LONG UNDER SCRUTINY
AS a BiltmOre Patron. Nine.
Despina Cultivated Military
Men and Diplomats.

secret history OF the war is ever written
the full truth about the arrest OF the
Beautiful Turk and her three satellites,
whom the Department o. Justice lifted
out of New York hotels yesterday and
will drop at Ellis Island for deportation
TO France, cannot be printed nov.
But there is enough OF the story avail
able to suggest that some OF our best
fiction writer's in building their tales OF
International intrigue find their material
in achieved fact.
The Beautiful Turks real name is
Despina Davidovitch Storch. In Paris
she was Mime. Nezie. in Madrid and
London Nine. Hesketh. in Rome Nine
Davidovitch. at the B.ltmore Hotel in
New York Nine. Dcspina and at the
Shoreham III Washington the Baroness
de Beviile. European capitals were
illumned by her presence for the first
two years Of the war. Army officers,
Ambassadors and even higher person.
ages we!e Oh her visiting list.
Had Mysterious Remittance.
Then too overt an acquaintance with
supposed German agents caused her de-
paIture from Spain. and by way OF
Cuba. where Havana briefly enjoyed her
radiance. she came to New York. where
$4,000 entrusted to her by a foreign Of
flc!ai before she lef, Europe was per.odi-
; cally added unto by remittances that
have not been explained to the satisfac-
ton Of the Department OF Justice.
Her friendships here have been wide
aud varied. Her special prediction was
, FOR diplomats and men in uniform
officers OF many nations who constantly
stream through the Biltmore. where she
has lived since 1916. and other hotels in
/ whose bathrooms she was almost as we'll
known. In her safe deposit box in the
Lincoln Safe Deposit Company's vault
, the Government agents have found half
Il bushel OF documents. including corrc-
| spondence, plain and in code. und cable
grams reputed to have come from very
| important persons indeed. The woman
| is % years old.
One Poses as . BarOp.
The three others arrested and on their
way to deportation as undesirable aliens
are Baron Henri dc Beville living at the
Hotel Woodward. so close a friend Of
the Beautiful Turk that they sometimes
used the same name when travelling !;
title Of the Count Robert de Clairmont
I is somewhat in question. and Nine. Char
lotte Nix, German born. vino had apart
.!ients at the Hote! Netherland. widow
: Of middle age who has two children in
school in this country.
T; Count de Clairmont and Nine Nix. ac-
cording to the Department OF Justice.
also had the habit OF sharing a common
name on their Journeys. travelling as
Nnyy Ina Nd Nro Doh
Nine. Nix, the Department OF Justice
says. has admitted having received
$4,000 from Count Won Bernstorff as a
loan
All four were under guard last nigh.
for transfer to Ellis Island. Count de
Cla!rmont cannot be moved for few
days. rs he Is III in a West Fifty eighth
street apartment.
"Why are they to be deported instead
OF prosecuted here:" q Government Of.
flcer was asked.
Because OF their suspicious activi.
ties here it Is the belief OF Federal
officials that they are connected will,
activities in behalf of the enemy" he
replied. Their deportation is desirable
because of facts which cannot be stated
at this time
4 Strikinaly Beautiful Woman.
Aside from nose which complies
with Turkish rather than Occidental
standards OF symmetry, Mime. DespinA
Davidovitch Storch is really a strikingly
beautiful young woman. and her ward
robe, both In quantity and quality. com
ports with the comeliness OF her face
and the distinction Of her manner. Shs
says she was born in Constant!noplt
and was married to a Frenchman, Pau
Storch. at the age Of H. They wer,
soon divorced, and Storch is now II
the French army. she says. protesting
at the same time her utter loyalty &c
France.
With the help of the secret service o,
the Allies the Investigators OF the De
partment Of Justice have traced hel
wanderings. She herself talks of hel
acquaintance with high officials in hall
q dozen capitals. Beginning in 1912
the Federal agents say. she received al
income from sources not yet who'll,
identified. She favored the hest hotel.
with her presence-the Savoy in London
the Palace in Lisbon, the d'Alba II
Madrid. and so on. British army officer.
attended her little parties in her suite
at the Savoy.
Brie. Detention in spain.
IN 1915 she and the Baron de Bevill,
were IN Spain. They were accused o
too close a friendship with Germa,
agents and were feld for a time. bu
for some reason were released. The!
hurried to Cuba. and in April. 1915. ar
; rived In New York.
Mime. pespina had only a room-no
a suite-at the Biltmore. so the socia
activities that had been so greatly en-
joyed by her friends In London were no
: duplicated here. But she danced a grea
, deal and never lost an opportunity o
conversation with young officers to whom
she was introduced. embassy attache
up from Washington for the moment an
|, men Of all sorts OF large AFFAIRS. Sh
conversed brightly with French &C
cent, and was voted to be very attractive
, Baron . Daily Caller.
!. She was rarely serious except in tn
evening, and the cause Of this change &
her demeanor was the arrival of Baro
\ Dc Beville Almost every evening tn
Baron dropped In to call, and in corne
of a BIltmore supper room Nine. Des
pima and the Baron talked long an
earnestly. She seemed to have plenty @
| money, spent II freely. paid all bill
| ~.o,,Dtly and had no visible object 4