The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-24
SHOULDER TAP
ENDS 13-YEAR
HUNT FOR spy
Most Brazen Soldier of
Fortune in World Is
Nabbed at Last.
VETERAN COP NEMESIS
Captain DuqueSne Credited
as Man Who Killed
Kitchener
BY II. ALLEN SMITH
United Press stan Cores pondent


United Press stan Correspondent
NEW YORK, May 24.-"Ford of
headquarters. relentless, implac-
able, unforgetting as Victor Hugo's
"Javert," who was the nobel Of all
police agents. ended thirteen-year
pursuit when he tapped Captain
Fritz Joubert Duquesne on the
shoulder and babe him come along
to the station.
"Duquesne." protesting that there
was some mistake, and that he was
an Englishman, T. De Traford
Craven. went unwillingly, but today
he rested as well as he could in the
most secure cell in the depths OF
police headquarters.
DuqueSne, unless Thomas Ford
has made a mistake. and Ford has
made few in his career, is one of
the worlds most brazen-and most
fascinating soldiers of fortune.
Charged with arson and swindline
in America, he still also is wanted
by England for murder on the
high seas He was a soldier in
the Boer war, spy for Germany
IN the World war, and, by some
reputation and in the boasting of
his friends, the man who killed
Kitchener"
Escaped From Bellevue
Thirteen years ago Captain Fritz
Jouber Dequesne escaped from the
criminal ward of Bellevue hospital,
where he had been confined on his
pretense that his legs were paral-
yzed. But there was no paralysis
when he sawed through two bars at
the window, leaped lightly to a roof
beneath. and then disappeared
completely-clad in hospital paja-
mas.
You are mistaken, my friend,
said the captain today when De-
tectiye Ford, producing a Colt au-
tomato from its shoulder holster,
showed It's muzzle int his ribs.
Il am not mistaken" said Ford.
You are Captain Dusquesne, soldier
of fortune. international adventurer,
and a prize picaroon if there ever
was one. You know who I am
Ford of the old neutrality squad.
You know damned well that I've
been after you for thirteen years,
eever since you escaped from Belle
vue."
Police Are Reticent
The police were reticent about the
capture, perhaps because England
is expected to ask for his extradi-
ton on the murder charge. But
city editors hastily sent investiga-
tors to their files for the old and
sensational story.
Duquesne. after thirty-five years
OF adventure, was arrested in De-
cember. 1917, charged with insur-
ance fraud. He was accused of
placing time bombs in a storage
warehouse in Brooklyn. and of set
ting up a claim for insurance after
the resultant explosion.
Tried on this charge and con-
victed, he feigned paralysis, and in
May. 1919, made his sensational
escape.
Duquesne is said to have been
born Of a French father and
Dutch mother, in South Africa He
saw service in the Kaffir wars, and
won distinction as a duelist with
the saber and rapier when he was
in military school in Belgium.
On BOer staff
AS a valuable officer on the Boer
general staff. he engaged in re-
markable series Of plots against the
British. one OF which, the proposed
burning OF Capetown, nearly was
successful. He was arrested, and
sentenced to death as a spy. The
sentence was committed, and he was
sent to Bermuda, whence he es-
capped on a private yacht by over
powering a seaman and using his
uniform.
Arriving in the United States, he
worked as a reporter for number
of New York newspapers. lectured.
and wrote magazine articles TO earn
a living.
At the outbreak Of hostilities on
the continent in 1914. he went to
work Immediately for Germany
Three Sailors Killed
Three British sailors we're killed
later on the Lamport and Holt liner
/ Tennyson. bound from Brazil to
New York. by the explosion of
minerals said TO have been
shipped ny DuQueSne II is for this
crime that he is charged by the
British with murder on the high
seas.
Therefore. at the time of his ar
rest for arson. in 1917. he was al
f ready wanted by England. and prob
ably would have been extradited had
it not been for his escape.
1 AS TO the man who killed
4 Kitchener" the story is fantastic.
wholly unsubStantiated. and yet it
is not without the bounds Of rea-
+ sonable possibility.
+ Lord Kitchener, secretary OF war,
I had sailed for Russia on the Hamp-
shire Sailing with him, the story
goes. was Duquesne, masquerading
as a Russian officer. Duquesne sig
nailed the German submarines by
a prearranged signal Torpedoes
were launched Kitchener died in
the swirling waters. And the spy,
reaching the submarine on a raft,
was hauled inside, taken 10 Ger
many. decorated. loaded with hon
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