The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-28
WOMEN SPIES TRAPPED German Women Who Ruined Many British Naval and Military Oficers-My Marrow Escape at the Hands of the Huns
  GA Woman CompT nd
 
Continued from Yesterday)
the Hands of the Huns

the Allies Had I thought that the information I was obtaining was for the use of enemy Powers, l would have given the man who approached away to the police on the very first day"
 This was the statement made to me by the woman, Eva de Beaucourt. when l asked her d few questions in the examination room at Westminster before the Court-Martial proceedings were opened.
 The assertion reads oddly, and may sound incredible, but I am convinced that it wps true. So were the mem bers of the Court-Martial. Otherwise this woman would have received a much longer sentence than the one awarded, and might even have lost her life, for the charge against her was very serious, and the evidence conclusive, in so far as it set cut to show that she was obtaining informa- ton of value to Germany, and passing 1t on to a man who was undoubtedly an enemy agent
 To prove her good faith in the matter. Miss de Beaucourt agreed to assist us in tracing the man who had induced her to take up this work. but in spite of the fact that she gave us all the information she possessed, we failed in our quest for this person. l think he is one of the few agents of the Germans who es- capped from the net cast by our Se- cret Service.
 In the month of March this year the dead body of a man was found in the Tyne. I have good reason to believe this was the man who had made a tool of Miss de Beaucourt un- til we got on her track. Where he had been all the time we were hunt ing for him I cannot say, but the au- thorities are satisfied that he was the missing man.
 To Trap Careless Officers.
 How came you to believe you were working for the Allies?" was the nat ural question I put to Miss de Beau court after she had made the state ment with which this article opens. Surely it must have been apparent that the information you were hand ing was more likely to be of assist ance to tho Central Powers than to anybody else"
 "On reflection one might think so, was the reply; but when I put that point to the man I knew as Graham. he told me the British authorities had reason to suspect that there was a leakage of information somewhere and were anxious to detect the off, cers who were talking too freely. IL was suggested to me that I should mix with naval and military officers and tempt them to talk, in order that the authorities might know the men who required watching. I said that I did not like this kind of spying. but Graham told me that 1t was very i'm portant work indeed from the point of view of the Allies, and might mean all the difference between winning and losing the war.
 "I was prevailed on to take up this work, and Graham, as he called him self. asked me to furnish him with regular reports of the conversations l I had with officers I met in the West End or at the houses of friends in or | der that the authorities might the better judge of the value of what was | being given away"
 That" I remarked to the girl, "is a l quite plausible story, and personally | I am inclined to accept 1t, with one ] slight reservation, but you may not find the Court so credulous. Have | you any means of corroborating the | story?"
 The girl was lost in thought for a | little while, and then answered, "l | am afraid not, unless we. can find | Graham. If we could discover him | he could prove that I advised him oi | the fact that there was in London a | German naval officer masquerading 1T
 a British uniform, and that I had | had many conversations with this of
 ficer in the West End"
 | "I do not doubt you for a mo men,," I replied, but you must set
 that it will take something more thar
 that story to satisfy the Court. CaI
 you tell where Graham is to b.
 found?"
 Yes" was the reply. "or at least
 can tell some of the addresses he uset
 in London
 Corroborating Her Story.
 I was very doubtful about tn value of those addresses, but l fel
 there could be no harm in tryinl them in the hope of picking up clue of some kind. We visited tw'
 of the addresses given. finding noth ing for our pains in the first place bu in the other we came across a lette left behind by the man we wanted I opened 1t. and found 1t was tn letter from Miss de Beaucourt tellin Graham of the appearance in Londol of the naval officer whom she sus pected of being a German in dis i guise. As matter of fact, this of
 ficer was afterwards proved to b ? Karl Lody, who was shot in the Tow CT of London as a spy.
 was somewhat pleased at fndin f this corroboration of the prisoner story, for I had more pity for he than anything else, I felt that sh ? had been made the dupe of a cleve , rascal. asked her to tell m something more about the meetin
 with Lody, for apart from my ow
 natural curiosity. there was desir
 to clear up some of the mystery sur
 rounding the movements of this mar 1 who had been shot some months be fore the arrest of Miss de Beau ' court.
 ! T was introduced to the man b . another naval officer. whom I ha g known for sometime" said Miss q | Beaucourt. There was somethin s about him that aroused my suspicion from the first. l had many talk
 with him, and when I tried to get 1T
 formation from him about differer | matters connected with the navy | faurd that ha knau vary 1fttla fndeet