The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-05
By FREDERICK VALENTINE.

pL "Oinen SDlGS employed Dy
 Germany in Britain during the
 war was Litzi Wertheim, who is
 at present serving a sentence of
 penal servitude in Aylesbury Pri-
 son. She was the associate of the
 notorious spy. Karl Rowlandson,
 who was shot in the Tower.
 (This newspaper is able to re-
 veal for the first time the true
 story of the dramatic chase and
 capture of Litzi Wertheim in Lon
 don, along with her lover, Row
 landson. The story of how a lit
 tie Japanese pug-dog sealed the
 doom of two of Germany's most
 valuable agents, and how two in
 nocent American girls became
 their unconscious tools is one of
 the most amazing narratives of
 the war.)
 Copyright 1919. By the International
 News Bureau, Inc.)
 London, August 1.-Women spies seldom work alone. They are the tools of the men behind them. Litzi Vert helm was the tool of a combination of three men, Rowlandson, Jansen, and Roos, all three of whom loved her desperately, and all three of whom were executed. while she herself re- ceived ten years penal servitude, sentence which she is now serving.
 I>itzi Wertheim was very beautiful, though no one has suggested that she was at all clever. The men were the brains and Litzi was the beauty of the combination, but owing to peculiar luck it was the three men who were captured first.
 The true story or Jitzi Werthe elm is an enthralling romance of the un- derworld. It began, as a matter of
  that mad, wicked centre of gilded vice-and 1t has ended or come to a temporary halt in Aylesbury Prison.
 For a time, 1t Is true, Litzr enjoyed a brief social career in London, but it was not as q spy. It was as the wife of a young man whose family are disinguished in diplomatic and fina.n- cial circles.
 Litzi came of verry common Ger man people. As a child she was pos sossed of extraordinary beauty, and her mother, who was of an adventur- ous and thoroughly interruptions character, saw in this chfld's loveli- ness great possibilities. 1itzi was a lily. blooming in the mud.
 She grew up to fulfil the promise of her childhood. She possessed a figure which any woman of nationality might envy, and which was extraor- dinary for a German girl of her class She was tall, elegantly slim and beau tifully moulded. She had quantities of silky golden hair, and her blue eyes, until the very moment of her trial and conviction, preserved their innocent baby expression.
 Married Into Wealthy Family
 The girl became a demi-mondaine and 1t was in this role that she first cultivated the senses of a wealthy young EngliShman who ultimately married her. He was a very young man, else probably he would not have been caught by the simple trick that 1dtZfs mother devised for him. Be- lieving that he had ruined the beau tiful girl and that she was faced by disgrace through his fault, he married her.
 This was long before the war, and Litzi must at that time have been a very young woman, for she was only 33 when they sent her to prison. cut off her beautiful hair, dressed her In coarse garments and gave her ten years in which to think things over
 Despite the fact of her common ori- gin. Litzi Wertheim was of a refined and delicate appearance. For a time it would seem that marriage had wrought a change in her. Always pas sionately fond of dress and the care of her body, she developed a surpris- ing refinement of taste in such mat ters. This was displayed particularly fin the choice of her undergarments. which were always of the finest linen daintily embroidered and of a simpli- city that marks the choice of a gen. tlewoman.
 Such a role, however, was difficult for the girl to sustain. She was simply playing at being a lady, and her natur- al instincts pulled her in quite an other direction. Possibly she made an honest effort to live up to the wealthy old family into which she had married; and. quite possibly this family did not receive her with any great amount of enthusiasm. How ever that may be, the young couple separated, and 11tzi's husband was sent abroad, while she herself was given an allowance and remained in England.
 That ended her matrimonial experi- ences.
 Ambition to Go on tIse Stage.
 This beautiful. hish-spirited girl be- camo thoroughly embittered, and from that state of mind ambition was porn. She lived. reckless and well, but she had no desire to pursue a life of com plete idleness. Besides, she was vain in an entirely legitimate way. She had been told often enough how beautiful she was; she had boen given a Slirn pse of the world of real people, and she did not wish to sink again into that half-world from which she had sprung. She intended to earn a cer- tain amount of respect from her hus- bands world, while at the same time gratifying her irresistible instinct for notoriety and adventure.
 In short, it was her intention to go upon the stage and cultivate her sing ing voice as well. Quite accidentally this ambition was mixed up fin her capture by the police some years la ter.
 In the neighborhood of Regents Park there lived two sisters, actress ses, Violet and Fanny Kaye. These sisters had a comfortable little flat, and apart from her stage work Violet gave elocution lessons
 Iitzi Wertheim answered one of Violets advertisements in a drama tic Journal, and was her pupil for several months. Lftzi spoke English very we'll, but with an accent that she