Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-20
PHOTO TAKEN
TITLED SPY
Reisinger, Daughter
Brewer Busch, Posed
With Count
ADMITS SHE KNOWS HIM
New York. Marc


W ~ name of Mrs. Edme Reisnger.
4li<0ter Of the late Adolphus Busch. Cf
~ Eeuis, and widow of Hugo Reislnger.
<ot New York and Berlin. was today
8 bfouRht into the case which resulted in
EMO arrest of two titled men and two
4 yRumen and presidential orders for their
1eportation to Europe as alleged spies
A photograph showing Mrs. Rcisinger
*1u friendly pose with Count Robert De
8Glairmont, one of the four alleged spies,
&as the cause of her name being brought
1oto the case. The photograph was taken
~ Fifth avenue studio, and Is posed
ia the same manner as the published
4 E1hotograph of the Count and Nine
4 FzcIixabeth Charlotte Mix. who has ad-
k3nittcd receiving $4,000 from former Ger.
Elnal Ambassador Won BernstorN.
Mrs. ReIsinger seemed greatly per-
Eturbed when informed that a photograph
~ herself and Count De Clairmont was
I'm the hands of Department OF Justice
6nlciais, but she explained how she had
met the Count and how greatly aston
1Hhed she had been TO learn of his arrest
Eand the charge against him.
II was Mortified to learn that Count
J be Clnirmont had been arrested" said
Mrs Reisinger. 'He was a charming
man who enjoyed the highest connec-
Efions. He was close friend OF General
{Izadiuuet, a hero of the Marnc and in
Produced me to him last summer The
Ecount was a close friend and associate
4 IN the Duke and Duchess De Richelieu,
and OF course, at my homo he met many
Observation-Disclosures of the highest stand
{fnK Therefore. I am firmly convinced
Etne Covernment has made n mistake in
{arresting him.
II was at the photographers one
+ E4fterncon having my picture taken when
the Count came in. lie insisted on
being taken with me and. although |
protested. 1t did no good. He sat close
beside me and said he would keep the
picture always Now I realize that 1t
was an imprudent thing for me to
permit.
Il liked the Count very much and
often went to dinner and TO dances with
Aim. and he came to my home fire.
<quently. Never did he say anything
TO me about espionage, and I never sus-
pected him of such a thing. He always
{tappeared to he a patriotic Frenchman,
heart and soul for France. I never
asked him why he did not go back to
tnght for France"
Et Mrs. Reisinger admitted having met
Mime. Nix, who was introduced to her
BY the Count, but recently. she said he
told her she must have nothing further
Etc do with Mime. Nix
f shortly after the United States en-
tered the war Government officials, in
e-arch OF wireless plants here. discov-
cred = plant I'm the home of Mrs. Reisn-
kGer. II was explained at the time that
Eehe knew nothing of the apparatus and
that II had been installed by butler
who was studying wireless telegraphy
without her knowledge.
Information obtained by the Depart
k1nent Of Justice through the arrest of
i %}(Ae Turkish beauty, Mime. Storch, and
her three confidantes, has cleared up n
[lpotnt which has been puzzling Govern
-nent cficials for long time.
The point in question Is the manner
Elm which representatives of the Ger
man Government have been able to
fransmit Information to Berlin. but Sc
crct Service officials have refused to
reveal 1t at this time. II is permissible
to ray, however. that the method will
not be used again.
~ Another thing the case has demon
etrated to Government officials, il is
naid. Is the value OF a certain amount
Of publicity. Since the story of Nine.
8torch was made public the authorities
have received valuable information from
READERS of newspapers who are eager
and willing to assist in stamping out
The GSrman spy system.