Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-09-30

WAS DISTANT KIN OF KAISER
Nine. Victoria In German Secret Po.
ice EmpIoy-Turkish Spy Kills
Self at Ellis Island to Avoid
Deportation.

New York.-That little romance sur
rounded the women spies In the world
war ls shown by intimate hits of his
tory OF the more prominent women
VINO risked. and lost, their lives to
gain information. Money alone seems
to have been the hnpeling power IN
the lives OF these women, rather than
any heroic motive or patriotic desires.
Nine. Marie X. de Victoria. who died
OF pneumonia In New York city re-
Gently In a private sanitarium was
one Of the most mysterious figures
who arose out of the maze of intrigue
URRarthed by American secret service
agents In their delvtngs into the plots
Of Count Won Bernstorff. She was ar
rested In 1918 and In May. 1919. told
q United States judge and jury what
she asserted was the true story Of he-
life.
Ute Filled Win Adventure.
II had lasted only 40 years. hut in It
were crowded thrills, intrigues and
hairbreadth escapes almost number
less. The indictments against her
were never pressed to trial. due to her
III health. A distant relative of the
former German kaiser, she drew a sal
airy Of $1,000 month as spy and
lived In luxury.
M0urnful was the funeral of the
turkish spy" Nine. Desplna D9yidO-
witch StOrch, famous for her beauty
and for the diplomatic intrigues of her
life, which lasted only % years. She
died In prison ON Ellis island, the Of
fcials believing that she took poison
rather than be returned to France.
Only three mourners accompanied
her body to Mount Olivet cemetery.
They were the Young Baron do Bevillc
and his aged father and mother. The
Young Frenchman, whose infatuatiOn
for the beautiful Turk entangled him
In the web Of her intrigues, made all p
the arrangements for her costly fu-
neral. Despina was married to an
Englishman. James Hasketh, In 191a.
hut she left him to take up her life OF
adventure, and soon was numbered OH
The uePmnn pay roll.
l1tT DCuutN anu WI hCi "
ensnare many Ofiicers from whom she
learned military plans which were Of
value to the German war ministry. The
department of justice has many OF Der
Iove letters. hut the real secrets of her
life were buried with her.
Ma.a Harris Dramatic End.
In-the season of 1900 an exotic dap
Ger. Malta Hari, made q spectacular
debut In Partisan circlas. ahe little
Japanese dancer entrapced all by her
graceful dancing and her charming
personality. On October Is, l9l7, Mata
Har faced firing squad at dawn In
ii French prison yard. They fired and
she fell face forward, dead.
The real name of the woman was
Marguerite Gertrude Zelle, who had
Deen convicted of treason. She was
arrested In Paris. February l3. 1917.
and II was proved beyond doubt that
she was trusted agent of the Ger
.aan special police and had acted for
hem for a decade before the war. She
was known In Berlin by number and
for years had furnished them with
valuable information of French mil
tafy plans and equipment.
In 1914. shortly after Germany had
invaded Belgium, Marguerite Zelle left
Paris for Switzerland, which she said
wus her native country. She returned
after mysterious visit which aroused
rhe suspicious of the French secret
police and thereafter her activities
we're directly for officers In the Ger
man army. with whom she communi-
Gated and from whom she received
'arge sums Of money. To them she
sent Information on the construction
Of the British tanks and the informal
ton was intercepted and traced to
her.
Malta, on being arrested and con-
fined in fortress In Paris. made no
denial but stated that her father had
been German. officer and that what
she had done had heen for the. father
land, This was false, for It was proved
that she was not of German origin.
hut had played the role of spy simply