The Springdale news., 1919-03-21

their capture put an end to what might have been extremely danger oas operations. "G" in particular was a particularly grave menace to the cause of the allies; he had mixed with many prominent people in Lon don and had undoubtedly acquired much naval and military knowledge, information which secret service wig ilance prevented him from getting through to his kaiser.
 Throughout the war Germany em- ployed many curious looking speci- mems of humanity, but it is doubtful If any more freakish individual was in the enemy service than "Z" execu- ted on September 10. 1915 "Z" was an elderly man, probably about 50 years old, , feet 10 inches in height and so cross-eyed that the glasses he wore merely accentuated the disfigurement A. slow-speak- ing, deliberate man, he gained a cer- tain amount of information because he resembled in no way anybody's pre- conceived notion of what spy ought to look like
 He was caught in the act tampering with naval documents, and like wise man, made no fuss. He knew he was doomed from the outset, and took ev- erything connected with his trial and subsequent condemnation as a matter of course. While in Wandsworth Prison he caused the authorities no trouble, and on being taken to the Tower of London on the day of his execution, merely exhibited mild cu- riosity as to where he was going. You will see soon enough" the A. i P. M. in charge of the prisoner told him, and he said no more.
 Hands Glasses Over.
 Like all the other spies executed at the Tower 'Z' spent his last night on earth within it's time -halowed and forbidding precincts. Led forth in the dim gray of September morning, he listened unmoved to the reading of the sentence of death He wore his glasses right up to the time his eyes bandaged. When the sergeant ma l jor in charge told him to remove them, he carefully took them off, me chemically started to dust them with his handkerchief, then smiled sadly, 1 put his handkerchief back in his pock- ! at handed +bap, his death with the utmost composure.
 Of all spies caught here during the war the most dapper was little Pe- ruVian whom l must call "F" A ehirpy little fellow only feet inch es in height he came to England, os- tensibly as commercial agent, at the instigation of one of the German ministers in South America When arrested he had on him most elab- crate set of false papers Smartly dressed, able to mix in good society, he nevertheless proved valueless to Germany because none of his inform ation got out of the country. He was incarcerated in Wandsworth Pris- on, and was taken to the Tower to be shot on September II, 1915, the day after cross-eyed ''Z" met his death
 For reasons connected with certain ef his aecomplices about whom the intelligence officers hoped to get him to talk the sentence was not carried out for another week But at day break on September 17 "F" paid the supreme penalty, the miniature rifle range again being the scene of ex- ecuton. The little Peruvian went to his death with fair show of in- difference; he walked to the chair bravely, and asked the sergeant ma 1 .ior as great a favor that his eyes should not be banaged. The rules as to military executions are inexorable and his request was not granted
 "F'' was pathetic example of a neutral corrupted by German gold. The authorities cannot imagine why he should have sacrificed himself to Germany's spy system, excepting for 1 ele iaI Se SulHs ol iiohey tHe defman agents in South America were offering people willing to do espionage in Eng land. "F'' himself had no animosity against Great Britian and admitted that he deserved his death
 "X" was the assumed name of an extremely dangerous character, we'll known in the West End of London, where he was arrested in a famous restaurant in company with female aeeompliee. He was a great dandy of a man about town