The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-02-13
GIRL RADICAL NEARLY KILLED
EX.KAISER

Lord.
Spartacist agents, which is German
for Rolsheyik murderers, hold more
terror. for the dethrOned Prusslan
Kaiser than the combined armies and
international courts of the world
and, incidentally, they are apparently
determined to destroy the once
mighty War Lord before the Entente
nations have a chance to bring MIN
to trial.
Amerongen is visited almost daily
NV new Spartacist leaders who nave
sworn to wreak vengeance on the
Kaiser for the wrongs ne DroushI
upon them when he occupied t ~
German throne. But, thouen cne
Kaiser is now only William Honen-
zollern, he is protected by a secret
service organization that is every
whit as complete as the force that
once glutted the Foreign once III
Berlin with information from every
part of the world.
The presence of these agents Is Tue
answer to the discontinuance OF WI
Iiam's strolls through the quaint NJ
tie Dutch town and the reason LOT
the former monarch's recent Illness
which is now known was more
serious than the outside world was
narmitted to know. But 1t was ID
girl q. CLOSE friend of Rosa LuXem-
hurg. the dead Spartacist leader, WHO
really drove the Kaiser to the CON
fines of the castle. She came WITHIN
an ace of destroying man VINO is
held responsible for the woes OF ner
compartriots and her country
Agents from the Spartacists came
and went. each time their identity
and errand being learned by the
Kaiser,s secret-service operatives.
Then one day young woman, pretty
and attractive, reached the village
She had friends in the place and her
passports were fiawless. SeVeral
times she visited Amerongen and with
each visit the natural suspicion OF
fine detectives diminished until hnally
no more attention was paid her. For
a time she acted the part OF Dona
fide visitor to the place. Once she
was warned that it was not GUS
tomary for strangers to hnger long
in the vicinity of Count Bentnick,s
castle, and she studiously avoided
the place. During the period OF walt
ing. however, she laid her plans
carefully, and if the natural nervous
ness of a woman's nature HAD not
asserted itself at the critical moment
her mission would have been sue
cessful.
Possessed of the knowledge that
William was in the habit of taking
walk each morning, the young woman
eluded the guards and concealed her-
self in a thicket near a spot she
knew the Kaiser was in the habit OF
passing. William made his appear
ance at $50 o'clock, the presence OF
the would be assassin being unknown
At a sharp pace he started IN tne
direction of the thicket, but when
near it paused and turned sharply to
he right To the hidden woman this
action indicated that her presence
lad been discovered.
Suddenly a small black object came
lurtling through the air and eXplod-
ID at the edge of the moat, some dis
ance from where the Kaiser was
standing. The flying splinters OF
steel did not harm William, but
when he heard the conclusion he
urned deathly pale and staggered as
hough he had been struck. Attend
,nts rushed to his side and hurried
i'm to the castle, where for weeks
lie raved on the border of violent
insanity.
A score of guards beat the under
rush, but failed to discover the per-
on who had thrown the bomb.
hey did discover, however, small
iece of a shawl f1uttaring from the
wig of bush On the ground were
he small footprints of a woman.
he local police aided the German
gents in a thorough search Of the
own and in the room occupied by
he girl they discovered the shawl
rom which the piece of material had
cen torn. Two bombs were also
ound in the room. From the aged
nan and woman who had boarded
he girl it was learned she had
laimed to be one Elsa Walther.
With two hours start, however,
Berlin without being apprehended
,ut the Kaiser's agents did not
,bandon the chase, and right here is
,owerful than could reasonably be
Xp6CI6u Ol GNCH Tie USSI private uS-
ectives One morning, not very
ong after the affair at Amerongen,
Elsa Walther was found in her room,
cad from poisoning. The mystery
# her end has never been cleared
Ip; in fact, no one attempted to solve
t. {.
In Amerongen, however, the de-
ectives, temporarily outgeneraled by
he young woman, wreaked ven
;eance upon the aged couple who
lad housed her. They were ordered
O leave the vicinity Immediately
Two was'ls after their eviction the
woman die5 OF grief and her heart
roken husband passed away several
avs la.er. They had been disgraced
n the eyes Of their friends and rela
ives ana we're not even buried in
he village that had been their home
or so many yeas.
Since the day of the bomb-throw
1g, however, William HohenZollern
as not stirred beyond the walls OF
he castle. And what the bomb
allied to do terror has nearly accom-
lished. benaHse it is said the Kaiser
oes not enjoy a peaceful minute.