The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-02-13
GIRL RADICAL NEARLY KILLED
Ex-KAISER
/. i,urr. Hiding

Friend d Rosa Luxesburg, Hiding
in Thicket Hurls Bomb At War
Lord.
spartacist agents, which Is German
far Bolsheyik murderers, nolo mole
terror Tor the dsthroned RUSSIAN !
kaiser than the combined armies anu
5nfernationaI courts of the world
and incidentally, they are apparently
determined to destroy the once
s,sseIfv War Lord before the Enteals
nations have chance to Dflng hlnl
to trial. 1909 aailv
~ new Spartacist leaders VINO nay
sworn to wreak vengeance on Inc
xaieer for the wrongs he Drought
nnnn them when he occupied the
German fhrone But, though the
Kaiaar il now only William Honen-
zolIern. he is protected by secret
service organization that IS every
Whit az complete as the force that
once glutted the Foreign once III
perrin with information from every
part Of the world. 49,
THE presence OF these agents IS the
answer to the discOntinuanc5 OF VII
ramss stro1ls through the quaint ut
sle Dutch town and the reason Tor
flae former monarch's recent illness:
which Is now known was more
serious than the outside world was
narnftted to know. But 1t was
rirl- close friend Of Rosa Luxem-
6nre. the dead Spartacist leader, VINO
really drove the Kaiser 10 the eon-
fknas of the castle. She came Wltnln
a ace Of destroying the man VINO Is
held responsible for the woes OF ner
conpartriots and her country.
Arents from the Spartacists came
and went. each time their identity
and errand being learned by the
Kafser's secret-service operatives.
Thsn one day young woman, pretty
and attractive, reached the Vlllage-
she had friends In the place and her
nassn0rts were fawless. Several
fsnes she visited Amerongen and with
each visit the natural suspicion OF
Inc detectives diminished until finally
No more attention was paid her For
time she acted the part of a bona
fide visitor to the place. Once she
was warned that it was not Gus
fnrnarv for strangers to finger long
in the vicinity Of Count Bentnlck :
castle. and she studiously avoided
the place. During the period e. wait
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 a
walk each morning, the young woman
e1uded the guards and concealed her
self in a thicket near a spot she
knew the Kaiser was in the habit OF
nassing. 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 the
direction Of the thicket, but when
near it paused and turned sharply to
the right. To the hidden woman this
action indicated that her presence
had been discovered.
Suddenly a small black object came
hurting through the air and explod-
ed at the edge OF the moat, some dis
lance from where the Kaiser was
standing. The flying splinters OF
steel did not harm William, but
when he heard the conclusion he
turned deathly pale and staggered as
though he had been struck. Attend
ants rushed to his side and hurried
him to the castle, where for weeks
he raved on the border Of violent
insanity.
A score Of guards beat the under
brush. but failed to discover the per-
son who had thrown the bomb.
They did discover, however, small
niece OF a shawl futtering from the
tvig of a bush. On the ground we're
the small footprints of a woman.
The local police aided the German
agents in a thorough search of the
town and in the room occupied by
the girl they discovered the shawl
from which the piece Of material had
been torn. Two bombs were also
found in the room. From the aged
man and woman. who had boarded
the girl 1t was learned she had
claimed to be one Elsa Walther.
With two hours start, however,
she crossed the frontier and reached
Berlin without being apprehended.
But the Kaiser's agents did not
abandon the chase, and right here is
proof that they are somewhat more
powerful than could reasonably be
expected Of even the best private de-
tectives' One morning, not very
long after the affair at Amerongen,
Elsa Walther was found in her room,
dead from poisoning. The mystery
of her end has never been cleared
up; in fact, no one attempted to solve
It.
In Amerongen, however, the de-
teetives, temporarily outgeneraled by
the young woman, wreaked ven
geance upon the aged couple who
had housed her. They were ordered
to leave the vicinity Immediately.
Two weeks after their eviction the
woman died Of grief and her heart
broken husband passed away several
days later They had been disgraced
in the eyes of their friends and rela-
tives and were not even buried in
the village that had been their home
For so maiy years.
Since tie day of the bomb-throw-
ing, however, William Hohenzollern
has not stirred beyond the walls Of
the castle And what the bomb
failed to do terror has nearly accom-
plished, because it is said the Kaiser
does not enjoy a peaceful minute.
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