Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-25
BERTHA kRUPP
 PASSES SENTENCE
 0N HUN TRAITORS
Famous German Munitions Works at Eessen Has Own
 Court Martial.

LONDON, July 24.-According to the story told by a famous neutral secret service agent the most amazing court in the world, perhaps in the set up since the commencement of the war at the Villa Hugel in Essen. Here is an underground apartment of the mansion tenanted by Bertha Krupp, traitors employed at the great Essen death factory are tried for tho crime of treachery. Death is their in. evitable portion.
 The Cannot Queen herself is the judge. Pitilessly. mercilessly, with out a vestige of emotion, she passes the dread sentence.
 More than 100000 people are en- ployed at Krupp's. Scores of nation alities are represented. And although it is the most carefully guarded arsen- al in the world. where human ingen- uity displayed to protect secrets has surely reached the high-mater mark. there are occasions when, tempted by money, Workmen disclose some cher ished secret to the agent of a foreign power. Such thing is inevitable in mixed collection of humans like the one to be found at Krupp'*s.
 In the workshops and throughout the town there are hundreds of detec- tives moving to and fro unsuspected. All sorts of traps are set. The loyal ty of the workers is subjected to the most searching tests. Even wives are induced to test the fidelity of their husbands. And when a Judas is discovered, he or she is arranged before this amazing court, the very existence of which has heretofore been kept profound secret.
 In a little-frequented and carefully guarded wing of the Villa Hugel is a suite of rooms into which even most favored guests seldom gain admit tance. They are wrapped in mystery. They are used only for purposes of business connected with the firm. These rooms. could they speak, could reveal some of the most amazing sec rets in the sinister history of Kaiser dom.
 One is set apart for the exclusive use of Dr. von Bohlen and Holback, the former young Prussian diplomat who became the nominal director of the great firm of Krupp's upon his marriage to Bertha Krupp 12 years ago.
 Adjoining this room is another spacious, sombre, severely furnished apartment fitted up with "a network of telephones, private wires and unusual electrical cOntriyances. At one end of the room is an oaken door con cealed by heavy plush curtain, Through this door there leads twen ty-foot passage. At the end of the passage is a flight of steps leading to a complete suite of subterranean apartments-a suite so built as to make it a place of safety even in the midst of one of those determined air raids of which Essen lives in perpe,- ual terror.
 The center one of these rooms is the secret trial chamber. Everythine visible is bathed in deep blood red A single electric bulb, red in color, casts a shadow on a corner of the great chamber. Here assemble the witnesses. the men and women spies who have unearthed the treachery of the accused.
 As the prisoner takes his place in an improvised dock, a fierce red ligat of high voltage is turned upon him. after the fashion of stage "snot- light. At the same moment. door the prisoner faces opens and Bertha krupp enters and takes her scot at a