The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-05
THE TIMES: AUGUST 5, 1919

cult matter for a beautiful, young, and stranded woman to achieve her purpose.
 Her First Meeting with RowIandson.
 Litzi sallied forth and found a ta- ble at one of the little open-afr cafes, She ordered something and cast her eyes about.
 At a nearby table were seated three men. Their names were Rowland son, Jansen and Roos It was not easy to tell their nationality, but Litzi suspected that Rowlandson was a German.
 This man has been variously des- cribed, and enormously so, as hand some. He was not in the least hand some, but he had what the French describe as the fascination of ugliness. Litzfs instinct being peculiarly sure fin such matters, she recognized him at once for the type of ardent lover which her true nature demanded
 In a few moments Rowlandson's companions bade him adieu, ana left. Litzi and he exchanged a few glances and presently he asked permission to join her.
 It did not take him long to get her story, for the woman was exceptional ly naive, almost childishly so in some things. The fact that she was German woman hating England heart and soul, yet blessed with a free run of the British Isles, made her prfce- less in Karl Rowlandson's estimation. He had found som ething that was al- most too good to be true.
 His first step was to make love to her.
 She was not mistaken in her in stinct, for Rowland was an accom- plished lover. So great a hold did he get over the passions of this beaud- full woman that at the very moment of her arrest she was in the act of writ ing a poem to him, which she had called "The Panther"
 Sympathy for IIitzi Werthem would be inevitable but for one thing. She did what she did for love, but at the same time she heartlessly and most cruelty abused the generous hosp1tal1- ty of an innocent woman That part of her story, however. comes later.
 All her gentility and refinement was a veneer, which she cast off under Rowlandson's influence. She became herself again; the woman who had raised herself from the gutters of Berlin sank back again into her nat ural element At this point her story becomes very gross, and while un- doubtedly it was Rowland who held her in the hollow of his hand and dominated her feelings there is every evidence that he shared her favors with his friends Jansen and 1oos-
 Litzi was now supplied with all of the money she wanted One Of ROW landson's presents was a dressing bag sumptuously fitted with tortoise shell and gold. Such a gift must have cost $500 and is a slight. indi- DP +I,o n which the German Secret Service flung their money about
 Carefully Coached.
 She had sab1es, rich clothes, and rolls of bank notes. But her taste had deteriorated. In that small but insig- nificant matter of undergarments the deterioration was marked. They were no longer of fine lawn and linen dis creetly embroidered, but of silks and crepes, heavy with lace and ribbon.
 Rowland coached her carefully, and when the moment was ripe this beau- tiful, disappointed woman who could not get back to Germany, returned to the land of her adoption, a full-bloWn spy.
 On her return to England Litzi ap- pears to have aroused the suspicious of the police by her over confidence Rowlandson had managed to warn her of her danger, and advised her not to go near her old lodgings
 IIitzi however, had to go some where, and so she very cleverly fast ened on Fanny Kaye. She discovered that this lady had moved to Regents Park Road to the house of a friend, Miss Connolly. Litzf therefore turned up there and coolly invited herself to an indefinite stay which no amount of limiting would induce Litzi to cut short At this house was a little Jap enese pug dog-Sa da-which was des- tined to play a most important part in the drama that followed.
 Iitzi, to the amusement of Fanny and her companion, spent most of her time writing passionate love poems These poems it turned out afterwards were code messages to Rowlandson, telling him where she was and where he might communicate with her by signal from the opposite bank of the Regent Canal
 Had she only known it, it was while waiting on this signal that these dra- matic events took place which led to her being sent to a penal settlement and her lover being shot in the Tow CT.
 Lftzi Wreheim was to some extent a charmer. of women as well as men, and she now exerted every fascina- ton to make herself persona grata to her two reluctant hoStesSes- She was decidedly an intrusion in the little flat, where there was no proper room for her, and there was no reason In the world assuming her to be an honest woman-why she should im- pose herself upon Miss Connolly and Miss Kaye.
 They were both busy young women dependent for the most part upon their own endeavors for support, and Litzfs presence was in many ways