The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-18

DaJ "oo tAdb lb was DO LV LHuL the Boraness and Frau von Natz- mer were beheaded; that the two per cent possibility was they might have faced Q firing squad. It was general accepted tbat they died under the axe.
 It had been known they were waiting for death after their for mal sentence Saturday in the dreaded peoples court; that they were to be beheaded in the man. ner reserved for traitors.
 Between them and the battleaxe of the silk-hitted, full dressed. executioncr there stood Reichs fuehrer Adoiph Hitler as their sole hope.
 President and Chancellor com. bined, their cases had been sub mitted to 'him. There were rutnors that the executions might be post poned: That Frau von Natzmer might be repricved, to share life Imprisonment at hard labor with two other women, secretaries in the Reichswehr both convicted as spies.
 No Hope From Hitler.
 Rut the cases had been submit ted to Hitler before the sentences were announced, and no hope had been held for either.
 During the week end political police took extraordinary .precaut- ions against leads from the prison. All possible informants were threatened with severe punishment if they divulged information. But round Berlin, in society where the beautiful blonde Baroness moved: ok hA 6y, of ,xln vnd friends there circulated word that at dawn today to mount the scaf- fold. hear the state's attorney say:
 "Exccutioner. do your duty!"
 And, in their final moment of con iousness. visualize the broadblader battleaxe above necks that had flashed jewels but now were shaved for the blOck.as
 Admitted Executions This morning prison authorities admitted there had been execu- tions; they refused to say how many or even to reveal the sex of the subjects. -.|
 The ministry of justice promised a communique some time today.
 Then came to the United Press from a most reliable source the statement that both the baroness and Frau von NatZmer had been executed.
 It was said also that Adolf Hit Ter. leaving the women to their doom as traitors to the third reich. left Berlin for Bavaria, probably during the week end.
 As to the dashing Capt Baron OnanaxueLt 70 fHn TCnltSt, cavalry. leader of the spy plot, nothing was known. It was re- ported that he was exchanged for a German spy of equal repute. held by Poland.
 It was all g tangle of intrigue. of people burning their lives with artificial excitement. Sosnowski. Il World war veteran of the Austrian army, and the baroness were lead. CTS in one of the great modern spy conspiracies whose details are not even now. year after their arrest. known to the world.
 Infatuated With officer
 The story js that the baroness was infatuated with SosnOwski; that to break herself of her infut. uation she married. as her second husband. Baron Josef von Berg. Russian born German citizen em- ployed as an aviation motor engi. neer at the great Simiens works.
 Von Berg. in turn. loved his beautiful blonde wife devotedly. He dared disgrace. even arrest. af- ter her arrest to visit her. send her money and delicacies and stoutly assert, wherever he went that she was innocent. His employers made him divorce the baroness last Aug ust. while she was in prison; but his devotion continued.
 It was said that Sosnowski once shared the baroness love but that he tired of her except as d fellow spy, whose allure brought to them secrets of Germany's armaments.
 His friends said today that he had not been exchanged to Poland: that he thought 1t his duty. from the chivalric viewpoint. to refuse an exchan ange and to remain in some prison in Germany.
 Won Berg still appears at cock. tail parties of the American col. ony. speaking of his love for his former wife. Her first husband was a nephew of General von Fal- kenhayn. World war leader.
 Frau Renate von Natzmer was of society as was the baroness. She married into the family Of General von Natzmer. who was killed In the World war, but later was di. vorced.
 In the dreaded peoples court of Berlin 1t was announced Saturday that the w0men must die on the bI0rk at dHttp today. Two other women. secfetaries .ii1 the army (reichswehr) were condemned to life mprisonment.
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