The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-23

was at ono time d Ncll-known
 Continental actress. She Is a
 frcnchwoman and married an
 lrishnan who fought during the
 entire length of the war with the
 British Armies in Franco. At the
 outbreak of the war she found
 scope for her gifts in the employ
 ncnt of the British Secret Ser
 vice, and to her was entrusted
 the work of ''hunting down.
 many of the women spies who arc
 now serving long sentences in the
 convict prisons in Britain.)
 "I played with the boy as only q woman of the world can play with the feelings of young and innocent lad. I played with him because by doing so could twist him around my fingers and so get from him the information for which Germany was willing to pay enough to ensure me a life of ease after the war.
 But before I had got what I wanted I had learned to love him. though it was not until it was too late that realized 1t. When l did discover 1t, the lad had taken his own life rather than face the disgrace of being tricked into betraying his country by .GnG w9%'n, ajS559sl jS559slDNE,mox. NE,ox. 1S0H S6x have
  repented of what I did; how much I would give to have that boy back to life. curse the day that ever I was persuaded to sell myself to Germany. These bitter words of remorse were uttered by Marie Pulitzer, one of the cleverest of the women spies who served Germany during the war. They were said to me as we sat in a dingy room in Westminster after the sen tence of the Court Marital had been read out and Marie was being led off 10 the prison where she is to spend the rest of her life. I have seen enough of life to know that this was no mere acting. The words came from the bot tom of broken heart. and the woman who spoke them meant what she said.
 \ Clever Woman.
 Marie was a woman of many ac- plishments. She had been in Lon don for some years before the war. living in Chelsea. moving in good so- ciety. and devoting herself to art and music. the things that mattered most to her.
 What devil possessed me to under take this work I don't know" was her despairing and fearful reply to my question as to how she became a German spy. 'I think it was because the clever scoundre1 who tempted me knew my weakness, and suggested that if I would assist him by collecting scraps of information that would not do any one any harm I could make enough money to devote my life to art and music. I fell only too easily"
 Early in the war Marie. at the insti- gation of her German master. was seized with a desire to do war work. She applied to a well-known member of Parliament since dead. and through his influence was given a post 4ss,1. portant Staff Officer at the War Of fee. While employed there she had access to valuable information, and. on her own confession. she revealed all she learned to the German under whose orders she was acting. It was while engaged here that she made the acquaintance of the young officer of whose death she accused herself. Let her tell her own story as she sobbed it out to me that day at Westminster:
 "Oliver had been gassed in the early fighting. and was unfit for further ser vice abroad. They sent him to aid my chief at the War Office, and he was treated with unusual considera- ton because of the family to which he belonged. He had access to secrets that were hidden from me, and, as I was being urged on to more desperate measures by the German who em- ployed me, I decided to make use of Oliver to serve my ends.
 Easy Prey.
 CT found him an easy prey. He was attracted to me from the first, I set myself to lure him on by all the wiles at the command of a woman. I soon had him at my feet, and there was nothing he would not do for me. We were in each others company a great deal. and I set my woman's wits to get out of him all I wanted to know.
 "One night, as we sat al dinner in a quiet corner of a WestaEnd restau- rant, I said to him. Tell me. Oliver, what is the new gas that we are going to nse in reply to the Germans? Q "'You must not ask he replied, for l may not tell the secret to any one'
 "'Oh, nonsense I said in a huff. . You mean you don't love me enough to break a silly pledge that was only meant to be kept when dealing with Germans
 "'Do not talk like that. Marie re- piled the boy. You know I hate to refuse you anything
 "'Oh, don't talk to me- I snapped, pretending to be angrier than ever, and picking up my things as though to go.
 "Don't take it so badly, Marie said the lad, now distressed to think that ne nad O1enOed me Fsrndps- you are right after all. There can be no harm in letting you see tho form ula. What do you know about such things, even if you were likely to make improper use of the informa- tion.'"
 He wrote down on the back of the bill which he had just paid the form ula for the new British gas then being manufactured for use on the Western front. Chemistry was one of the sub 1ects had made a special study of, and I had no difficulty in memorizing the formula.
 "I was greatly pleased at my suc- cess especially as my German cm- ployer had promised me five thousand pounds when I handed him the correct formula At the time 1t never occur red to me that was doing anything particularly wicked. I just thought of how this money would help me with my studies and enable me to surround myself with many of the things l had coveted for years.
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