Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25


lowing confidential French naval documents:
I'D The secret code and secret orders.
"(2) The secret signals and secret words.
"(3) The secret safety channels in the i've
big ports
IT address myself to you before getting in
touch with any foreign countries. am willn@
to hand over the single negative possess OF
all these documents. want 10000 francs
($30,0OO) If the price is too high, let me know
what you will pay Insert the following In thu
classified advertisements of lie Journal Of Paris9
paul to Peter Accept your price or sucM
and such price I will then write to you and
arrange to deliver the negative in return for
the money in 1,O0O-franc notes. If do hOe
have q reply in eight days going to sen
them to a foreign country, and then you must
change oil your secret codes which Will cob
you more time and money than the price !
demand. You be that will not keep
copies for myself. going to give you the
second secret word as a proof OF the authentlS-
ity of the documents
THE anonymous blackmailer thereupon gave
I the second secret password, and the revelae
ton of this ultra-secret threw the French naval
staff into q panic.
After long negotiations, the blackmaiIer usin9
classified advertisements, and rendezvous I'D
the wash room of an express train betweem
Toulon and Marseille that didn't click, tn
man was finally captured in the country. h
arranged to meet the ministry's agent, supposed
to have the money, a remote road near
Toulon. which he had planned very cleverlN
burly detective went there on foot and wheM
young man wearing a mask stepped out C
Q motor car, the detective called out:
els that you, Peter? l am Paul"
''I am Peter" the masked stranger replied
do you have the negatives? have th6
money" The detective flashed q big ron a
banknotes to show his good faith.
And then in flash, as the stranger reached
for the money, the detective landed on his JAZZ
and knocked him cold 1t was nlme then %
years old. He was first charged with espionage
but the Surete discovered that two months heG
fore he had tried to sell the documents 60 a
German agent in Brussels for $4,000 francs
($170O He was then charged with treason
which was far more serious.
When c0urt-martialed in February, IoOA
Ullmo told q pitiful story Of how ia Benz
LiSon" had taught him the opium habit.
One day when he in temporary command
of the destroyer Carbine, the captain being Cd
leave, he managed to open the safe with q
false key. He discovered the secret documents
and photographed them. "I conceived Thu
reasonable plot in an opium dream and didnA
know what was doing" he cried In despai&
remained there from 1908 until 1923, when In
governor took pity and transferred him to tn
mainland. There Is not the slightest hope e
him ever being pardoned. He is still IN conf
peratively good health.
A MARSEuLE medical man with q certain
fame, DR.. Bougrat, who was sent to Guiana
. four years ago after being convicted Of mmdez
got away to Venezuela last year. He now writes
home that he has pretty wife, big practice
and six motor cars. Venezuela refuses to hand
back escaped prisoners. The country need
many artisans and professional men and geta
steady supply from the penal settlement.
A Monte Carlo hotel keeper, Blengino, VIE
was serving 10 years on Devils Island ON 6
charge Of killing his wife, walked away o tee
weeks ago and returned to Europe without an1
great trouble.
Almost any one, any group, that possessed
$500 can get away, for that is the price Of 6
boat. This Is the result of having o penas
settlement In contact with civilian popula&
ton. All sorts Of people, particularly Chinese
merchants and freed prisoners serving theft
"doublage" or forced residence, specialize In tho
business Of transmitting funds to the prisoners
from their friends or relatives ut home, takin3
q large commission for themselves, nahlrallM
The ones who have no friends get money b
gambling, stealing catching magnificenk
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