The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22

hold of nothing till after they observed tha Freytag in talking to certain trio of pris eners always got them out in the open generally took them into the center of tn, prison compound. Other men ne talked |, with others crowding about, but these men whether singly or in group, he isolated.
 Then one of our men reported that thre of the prisoners were continually losin, their blouses. They were the same thre Freytag so especially distinguished. Mex the same men noted that the blouses wer lost only after a chemical treatment. Ant now when he marked and reported furthe that the fires started only after one or mor of these blouses had been iost-why, ", knew we were hot on the trail of ou quarry, though still we were unable to linl these happenings with the chain of evidenc, we must have. And then still another fire was set. We must hurry if we were not tt lose our docks and perhaps the war eventually give the Germans the victory.
 Just then Freytag was taken down witl influenza, and we managed, of course, tha both doctor and nurse should be people ii our own service. But they both tried in vair to get into the sick mans confidence; h, kept his own counsel-not displaying hi suspicious, but certainly cherishing them.
 Although he was told that it would be { month or six weeks before he could get out, he would not talk. Mary, the nurse, of fered to carry on his work for him:
 You know" said Mary, 'that although am an American by birth, I am of German stock, and my smypathies are all with Ger many and l am willing to do almost any thing to further the German cause.' Bu she made no headway whatever
 Trying new plan, Mary was instructed to go to the prison camp and tell the pris oners she was sent there as Freytag's rep resentative-that he was i'll and had asked her to look after their welfare while h, was away. She gave special attention tt the three men whom Freytag had been SC intimate with. Finally one day one of then said to her that he would have to have som, more of both the acids that were used fol the destruction of vermin. He said for he to tell Herr Freytag that the last acid wa not strong enough; it would not work quick ly enough, and for him to experiment. ct see if with the new supply the ratio shoulC not be changed.
 Even with this information in our pos session, we did not realize that we alread, had the solution of the plot; and but for z careless remark make by the Swiss, WI might have gone on and on, still working 1T the dark.
 Mary told Freytag that while she was a the prison camp that day a prisoner by thu name of Hans had asked her to tell him tha he, Hans, wanted some more acid She alst told him what Hans had said about the othe, acid being too weak and that he should ex pertinent with the new supply before send ing it to the camp. Freytag replied
 "I will try it out by myself when I re cover. The next time you go. over to tn. camp tell Hans not to use any more until first try it out here at home. Tell him it il too dangerous and that wish him to wal until l have recovered and can tell hin personally just what proportions to use''
 When this was reported to me I deter mined that I, myself, would experimen with these dangerous acids and asked my friend the doctor to help me. But he dit not need to experiment to know something about what would happen if brought these two substances together.
 "You will blow yourself up if you do no look out.' he cried. "Those two acids i, mai seuveifdr-e 789O$. ... 6 23456 ..66t contact cause spontaneous combustion ant you will set something on fire ev'-and W. had fathomed one of the deadliest plots o1 the war.
 It was very simple: frevtak teaching then