El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-11-01
RED GIVES
kI5ER SCARE
OF HI5LIFE
Friend Of Rosa Luxembourg
Threw Bomb at Former
Emperor.
ESCAPES BACK TO
THE FRONTIER

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a spartac.st agents. which Is Ger
man for Bolshevik murderers, hold
more terror for the dethroued Prus-
sian kaiser than the combined armies
an international courts OF the world,
and incidentally they are apparently
detsrmiRed to destroy the once
Z mighty war lord before the entente
nations have a chance to bring him
to trial
Amerongen Is visited almost daily
by new Spartacist leaders who have
kaiser FOR the wrongs he brought up
on them when he occupied the Ger
man throne But. though the kaiser
IS now Only William Hohenzollern, he
is protected by a secret service or
Eanization that is every whit as com
plete as the force that once Elutted
The foreign office "a Berlin with in
formation from every part Of the
World.
kaiser Has Close Call.
The presence Of these agents Is the
answer 70 the discontinuance Of Wiz
liam's strOlls through this quaint lit
tie Dutch town and the reason for the
former mcnarchs recent Illness,
which q Sc now known was more seri-
ss1s that the outside world was per-
close friend Of Rosa LuZemberg. the
dead Spartacist leader, who really
drove the kaiser 20 the confines OF
the castle she came within an ace
OF destroying the man who is held re-
sponsi5le for the woes Of her com
patriots and her country.
Agents from the Spartacists came
and went, each time their Identity
and errand being learned by the
EalEers secret service operatives
Then one day q young woman, pretty
ana attractive reached the village
she had friends IN the place and her
passports were lawless. Several times
she visited Amer0Hgen and with each
visit the natural suspicion OF the de-
tectiVes diminished uHtn finally no
usore attention was paid her. Eor g
time she acted the part OF q bona
tide visitor 20 the place.
Laid Plans Carefully.
once she was warned that "a was
not customary for strangers TO unger I
long IN the vicinity o. count Ben I
finck's castle and she stud iously /
avoided the place. During the period I
Of WAITING however she laid her ]
plans carefully and II the natural Z
nervousness OF e Woman'H nature had +.
not asserted Itself az the critical mo-
uent her mission would have been {
successful
william WAS On the habit Of taking a
walk each morning. che young woman Z
elu1ed the guards and concealed her
sell IN a thiczet near a spot she knew /
the kaiser was in the habit OF pass
Ing william made his appearance at .
$50 O'clock the presence Of the would I
oe assassin being unknown AT a sharp (
pace he started IN the direction OF the /
tnlckeL but when near i paused and /
turned sharply 70 the right To the /
that her presence had been discoT- I
cred
Staggered A. Though shot.
Suddenly a small black object came 4
hurtlinE through the air and exploded 7
a. the edge o. the m1at. some distance {
from where the kaiser was standing. 7
The flying Epiinters OF steel did not I
harm William. but when he heard the I
conclusion he turned deathly pale and I
STAGGERED as though he had beer ]
s-ruck. Attendants rushed to his s. de 4
and hurried nim 20 the castle, where /
Tor weeks he rared on the border OF /
violent insanity.
A score o. guards beat the under /
brush. but failed TO discover the per- I
son Who had thrown the bomb They T
did discover. however a small piece or 4
g. shawl flurtering from the tWle OF q ]
bush. On the ground were. the small I
footprints OF g woman. The local po- 1
lice aided the German agents tn q I
thorough search o. the town End IN I
the room occup'e ed b. the gIri they
discovered the shawl from which the /
piece OF material had been torn. Two
bombs were also found in the room.
FROM the AGED man and woman who
had boarded the girl Il was learned /
she had claimed TO be one Elsa wal I
Crossed eHe Frontier.
With two hours start however. she q
crossed the frontier and reached Ber-
I'm without being apprehended. But I
the kaiser's agents did not abandon /
The chase, and right here is proof that !
they ere somewhat more powerful /
than could reasonably be expected o. ]
even Eas best private detectives. one i
morning, not very long after the az
lair at Amerougen, Elsa Walther was
found n her room. dead from poison !
ing. The mystery OF her end has never q
been cleared upi In fact, no one at
tempted 10 solve it.
In Amerougen, however. the detec-
tires. temporarily outgeneraled bV the
young woman Wreaked vengeance ]
UPON the aged couple who had housed /
her They were ordered 20 leave the I
vicinity immediately. Two weeks az 4
ter their eviction the woman died Of j
Erer and her heartbr0ken husband I
passed away several days later. They
nad been dlsEraced iu the eyes OF 4
not even buried in the village that
had been their home for so many .
years
since the day OF the bomb throwing.
however. william Hohenzollern has Z
not stirred beyond tEe walls Of the /
castle. And what the bomb failed to
do terror has nearly accomplished I
because u Is 81 q the kaiser does not I
enjoy a peaceful minute.