The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-09

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It was in the month of October in
the year 1909 that first made the
reception held at the abode of Frau
Anton Schultze in the Victoria-Luis-
enplatz, Berlin. We became very
friendly.
Although she never confessed to
me she was a Secret Service Agent,
in the employ of Potsdam, 1 had it on
good authority that she was Ger
many's chief woman spy.
Once on taxing her on the point she
laughingly replied, II am merely a
journalist; but one day 1 will write a
book about German spying-and /
will send it to you in England to pub
lish."
1 thought no more about the mat
ter. considering her promise as a
joke; but much to my surprise on the
afternoon of October IL, 1916. I re-
ceived at my private residence by reg
istered post( postmark London, W.
c. a parcel containing a manuscript
and accompanying the parcel was a
letter couched in the following words:
C-'s Hotel, w. c.,
October II, 1915.
Ny dear Friend:-Doubtless you
will be very surprised to hear from
me after so long a silence, and espec-
tally will you be surprised to know
that 1 am in London, when England
is at war with Germany. Anyway, rest
assured that L have no hostile intent
against the dear old Motherland. am
on my way to the states, where I shall
indulge in farming for year or two,
and SO find, fervently hope, the rest
and recuperation need 1 have done
with Germany forever. Her barbar-
ic and disgusting methods have sick
ened me to loathing. After the war
hope to settle down in the land that
bore my dear mother-old England
the land Of the free. I send you my
"reminiscences''-do what you like
with them. They should prove inter.
esting reading to the English public
Adieui We shall meet again wher
peace Is signed in Berlin.
Ever your true friend,
o. Won M.
Curiosity naturally at once compel
| cd me to pay a visit to C-'s Hotel
where found-without surprise
that the name Of Olga Won Marx wa!
not known. On giving a description
of the Fraulein, I was told by the re
ception.. clerk that a lady answering
to my description had left Euston fol
Liverpool en- route for New York b!
the 11:16 train that morning. Sh'
had registered as Miss Amelia John
son, of Boston. u. 8. A"
I now propose to give the text o
Fraulein Won Marks M. s. in full.
How I Entered German Secret Servic,
I will not begin this story by weary
ing the reader with a detailed des
cription of my LIES history, nor shall
give the year in which I first saw
the light of day. Suffice it to say
that 1 am still young enough for mel
to rest their eyes on me with appro
baton; yet I am not a mans woman
Had / been so I should never hav
been entrusted with important Secre
Service work on behalf of the German
government.
It was owing to the death of m,
mother that found myself obliged t.
earn my own living. My mother,
should tell you. had a small privat
income, which died with her. M
father had died when I was quit
lyoung-killed in a duel with a Ger
man officer in Dresden. To tn,
credit of my mother 1 must at one
admit that she gave me the best ecu
cation she could afford. AS a prom
ising pupil of the distinguished so
prano, Frau Gleiss-I, a girl Of II
sang at a concert in the Beethove
Hall in Berlin, at which place yo
will have heard no "novices" are al
lowed to appear. Buoyed up by m
success there I very much desired t
enter Grand Opera, but my mothe
was firm as adamant against my pro
posal. In her true English, puritani
way she declared that opera singer
were not respectable members of sc
ciety; that the life Of a woman pub
lie ginger was encompassed by unde
siF1ble temptations; in other word
she considered the lives Of all publ
performers immoral" Although
did not altogether share her ideas o
: this highly debatable question I &
length yielded to her entreaties t
abandon singing and cultivate anott
er talent which was told 1 possesse
in a remarkable degree. At an earl
age was very adept in the use
: pen and pencil. and often as a chill
even I produced portraits of FRIEND
and relatives which were pronounce
'1ife-like." At the age of 10 I sold
dealer in the Friedrichstrasse a we
: ter color painting had done, for fiN
= pounds, and a little later 1 dispose
of short articles on various subjec
to the Berliner Tageblatt and the Al
Izeiger for the same number of shil
lings. My mother voted me a very Gle
ler girl and prophesied that I shou
get on" Had she dreamt that
should ever enter the German Seer
IS Service do not know what she wou
e have sailor done. In her good oil
fashioned English way + am sure 81
would have denounced all spies as Il
scum OF the earth" in which Il
dear soul would have been rath
wide Of the truth.
10 How 1 became a Secret Seryi
IL agent to the German governme
then came about in this way. In t
vossische Zeitung one morning I ha
n pened on the following adYertis
II ment: "Gesucht wird Privatsel17ets
0. in. Muss franzozisch and englisch b
herrschen." In English "A lady pi
~ vate secretary required. Must ha
1t thorough knowledge of French a
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