The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-08
Held by English as Spy in Boer War
He Outwitted Captors and Swan
to Safety Through Shark In
tested Waters-Murder on
High Seas Latest Charge
Against Him

had plenty to drink by taking them TO
the places where drink could be OBJ
tanned. BY midnight most Of them
were drunk. Duquesne started some
Of them back to their ship and man
aged to slip away from all of them
but one the drunkest OF the lot. This
man Duquesne kept with him.
His scheme Succeeds.
Capt. Duquesne took this sailor all
over the tenderloin of Hamilton, ply
ing him with drink, and making dis
Greet inquiries about the ship and its
personnel. BY 1 o'clock in the morn
ing he had learned the name Of the
sailor, the name of the owner and cap
tain, and was familiar enough with
the personnel of the ships crew that
he could have stood considerable ques-
tioning along that line. So he was
through with the sailor. He lured the
man up an alley, cracked him over
the head with a club, and then dom
ming his clothes and taking all his be-
longings left the sailor unconscious in
the road and staggered down to the
docks There the boat from the yacht
was waiting to take the liberty party
back.
Tho crew saw Duquesne and he
mumbled the name of the sailor in
command. 1t was dark and one drum
ken sailor in the dark looks a great
deal like any other drunken sailor.
Without any question as to the iden-
tity of their passenger the other sail
ors bundled Duquesne into the boat
and took him to the yacht. There he
appeared to be hopelessly drunk, and
the first mate ordered him thrown
into the brig and fed on bread and
water until he got sober. Luckily for
Capt. Duqnesne the ship sailed the
next morning, and two days later when
good part Of the distance to New
York had been covered he became so
Der and was released. Because the
yacht was by that time so far away
from Bahama, and also because the
captain happened to have fondness
for the Boer cause, Capt. Duquesne
was permitted TO work his passage the
rest OF the voyage into New York.
It also has been related of Capt.
Duquesne that while in prison on
fuckers Island he saw the daughter
Of the prison commandant. an English
girl. and fell in love with her. He saw
her again, according to this story,
when he was roaming the streets of
Hamilton, and she gave him what
money and food she could get to him.
Later, after he had got safely to
America and obtained funds from his
friends here. he cabled her, she came
to this country and they were mar
ried. This version OF his romance was
never corroborated by the adven-
turer, although it is known that Mrs.
Duquesne was the daughter Of an
English military official.
In 1912. while Capt. and Mrs. Du
quesne were in Kingston. Jamaica,
they were set upon by a party OF ma
tives who were rioting in connection
with street car strike. Their auto
mobile was stoned and Mrs. Duquesne
was struck several times. but Capt.
Duquesne finally beat back the rioters
with a hammer and wrench which he
took from the automobile tool box.
Visits London Unmolested.
After his escape from the British
prison, Capt. DuQuesne had no hesi-
fancy in visiting British possessions,
and once went to London and stayed
for some time. The English, however,
never disturbed him after the Boer
war had been concluded. He next APP
peared in the United States about 1911,
when he was hacking a project to i'm
port African big game animals into
the United States to augment the
American meat supply. He appeared
before a Congressional committee in
support OF this plan. and had it so
far advanced at one time that a bill
was introduced in Congress calling for
an investigation to determine the feas-
Utility OF the scheme. During his trip
hero at that time he was also engaged
in a number of business enterprises,
and it is probable that it was then
that he first became known under his
aliases of Frederick Fredericks and
Capt. StouGhton. two names which he
subsequently used in the work he is
alleged to have done for the German
Foreign Office.
Capt. Duquesne organized a moving
picture expedition in 1912 or 1913,
and set out for South America with