The evening world. Newspaper, July 5, 1922, Page 20

RATED BY BAD BUSINESS. eCARTY stiffened, listening | TOM THORNE—the Tracker “Man, get them—get them] bureau, i a quick—never mind me! It's } Timothy Parrot and Law- M'NAMARA—also a detective, ton—and we'll lose ‘em both In an-| Ord. other second if you fool around down here.” The man’s face drew into a dubious ‘ scowl, He hesitated, one hand clutch- ing Thorne’s helpless arm. “You may aliases. Parrot killed a man who fc ing something tike this: “You can anywhere under the sun—one yea be handing it to me straight,” he| Faulkner.” bureau. This was injustice. He do-| mop) 5 fte: The onty native Englishman to epy for Germany was a navat diue- ub-titles of ‘Aurora de Bilbao conceded, “but 1 ain't taking any! LAWTON—A convict serving time for one deal of the Parrot’s.}served « reprimand, perhaps, but to ing a Nes bid ee & pele faatet ears found hee lh : id ‘‘La Sultana."’ Guerrero first set chances. They got to come down THER LAWTON, his daughter, beautiful enough to make the| be Mung out of the department in dis RUA Aik tat tel de ada ntnd , to work to pull strings to obtain per- 7 ie Hdd DP ache grace was unfair, It would discredit|!Ines leading to the Lackawanna Meyer could not even be honest with a landlady. mission for this young woman to here to make a get-away, and I'll just stand in the door and gather ‘em in. But first I'll fix you so you] don't queer the play, brother." Kane, dons tne garb of a convict * pit iit da ea rpc i anc} plan an escape—Esther aids in thi jotted it cruelly between Thorne’s 5 mnie 5 teeth, gagging him so that he could Lawton wants to go after Parrot barely breacie, Then, with a suddeo lurch, he carried his prisoner across the room to a closet, flung him into 1, and locked the door. Thorne kicked frantically at the panels, bul to no avail. He stopped a minute to strain his cars for some sound from over- head, but none came. He heard McCarty telephoning in a lowered tone and realize’, with some small com- fort, that the man was right, accord- ing to Nis lights. He was playing It safe by muking sure of the prisoner he already had, and getting reinforce- ments to help retake those still at large. Thorne saw that by ercaling 0 disturbance now he would only icssir the chance of capturing Parrot. It was humiliating to be found, (rusred and helplers, while a stupid brute like McCarty rade the arrest on which he had set his heart, but the Important thing was that the arrest should ve mavc. He must grin and bear the ridicule that would certainly descend upon him when the story reachii Headquarters, comforted by the knowledge that it had been his pian which liad led to the capture. The inoments dragged interminably before therc was a sound of stcps and lowered voices and the key clickol again in the door of his makeshi‘t coll, Ungentle hands dragged hin Jato the light, and triumphant, hostilt {xces grinned at him. He looked iu vuin for Bohn or Fraser. Where were they? Why didn't they come and set him right ‘ith these Hamilton pol “Did you get ‘em? Have you Kot Parrot?” He could not control hi+ eagherness. “Oh, yes, we got Parrot, all right all right—and we got you too,” sald the man who held him. ‘The little 0. chair for yours, Kane, an’ you got It comin’, at that. ‘Talk about cold nerve! Bumping off a guy right here in Hamilton, an’ '—— “Bump—what do you mean? Who's ' killed? Lawton?" A chuckle answered him. “You poor simp! Lawton slipped it over on you, all right, all right! He's made his getaway and left you holdin’ the —s bag and lookin’ foolish. You asked fer it, and you got It. A trample of feet sounded on the stairs and to Thorne's vast relief Bohn and Antonini and Fraser tum- bled into the room. Aad, behind them, to his still greater discomfiture and } delight at once, appeared the chief himaclf,. There was an uproar of ex-|® forfeited murderer himself, and yet. planations before the handcuffs were} # he lay here, beyond the reach unlocked and he was free to explain| human justice, with the blotted re fas best he could the gigantic blunder| 0rd of his life ended by the red unde which had sent all plans astray, But/8coring of death, Thorne had a curl- he wanted light, first, on the newer ous throb of pity for him. He look: mystery of a murder, McCarty, sullen | Pathetically harmless —a shrunken. t and defiant under the sudden enlight-| frail, gray man, feeble and broken, | enment furnished by the newcomers, |!fcapable of harming an enemy by told the story abruptly. violence. “He bumped off Parrot and made| ‘Don't look very dangerous, does | his getaway by the window—there’ Antonini bent over the body. } @ rope there. | was playin’ safe”’—— | “You wouldn't think he was lightning it “Parrot! Lawton killed Parrot?’'|on the knife play, would you?"’ i ‘The room rocked hefore Thorne’seyes| McCarty growled from the door- Tracker wish that she were not the curate calling himselt “Douglass.” The “arrot “IT'S HIS WRITING “LL RIGHT, THE SAME FIST HE USED ON THE OTHER LETTERS." \ ag the words thudded {nto his brain, “How do you know It Is Par } The chief ‘ned to him grimly. he demanded defensively he i “well, Thorne," he said, slowly, “it]old lad looked all right to me Jooke as if you'd managed to make a|spoke to him three or four times pretty ghastly mess of the whole job, | while he was movin’ In, and he acted doesn't it?" like a simple old stiff, All you got is the sayso of the guy that bumped him off. “Let me get up there, quick. ‘Thorne pressed to the door. It w: no time for recriminations now.| ‘That's right." The chief téuched ‘There was a track to follow, a fresh |Thorne’s arm. “How do we know blood scent calling to him. No longer|this is Parrot, Thorne? It might be Parrot, but Lawton—Lawton who had|anybody. There's no banking on deliberately tricked him into playing| Lawton, anyway. He's proved that accessory before the fact to premedi- | much tated murder, who had cold-bloodedly| ‘‘Searched him?" Thorne glanced plotted to leave him behind in the/about him. There was a shaking of hands of the police, facing certain | head: death in the chair for a crime in jot to wait for the Coroner,” ex- which he had had no part—Lawton | plained one of the local police. “Be who had used and betrayed him! |here any minute, now “Let me up there," he erled again. Thorne was already busy with the «They followed him up the narrow | pockets of the dusty black sult. They stairs. held nothing of interest; a worn pen SUSPENDED, PENDING DIS. |K2fe, a few small coins, a small MISSAL bunch of keys, He examined the i. labels in the pockets of coat and In the small, ill-furnished bedroom |trousers, but found no hint; the of the third-story flat a man’s body |clothes had been bought ready made Jay on the floor, a dark blot of brown|He opened the waistcoat and explored slowly spreading over the cheap rug|its inner pocket, with no better result from a stab wound in the left breast,| But, as his hand brushed the faded + death instantly obvious in every line|shirt, something crackled below the of the relaxed limbs, the ash-gray of }fabric. He thrust his hand rth the blanched face. Timothy Parrot|garment and drew out an envelop deserved to die, Thorne knew; theJone end of it red and wet. ‘The oth Jaw would presently have taken his crowded about him as he opened it Canal Boat Trip | Fries soca ocean. Te . Beach and Rochester, reaching To! A Vacation Lure} 2x3 03 chester, seaching Ton: a SSS sixth day. Opportunity will be uf: 5 forded tourists to land at each night By W. G. Bowdoin. stop and wpend the evening in sight ‘A novel vacation trip that makes an| seeing. From Tonawanda a side trip — especial appeal to artists and photog- |! provided to Niagara Falls for Suo- Faphers, contemplates 2 enna} boat} day and to Buffalo on Monday tour of the New York State Barge| The tourist boat starts on the re- Canal from Albany, N. Y., to Tona-|turn trip from ‘Tonawanda on Monday wanda and return, covering a pertod| Night and, with boat stops at varlous of two weeks. cana) ports, is scheduled to reacn | A tourist may purchase a round-| Albany the following Saturday, where 0 o it tine ti trip ticket in this city, including}t. New Soaiaas tats Be ane, boas transportation via the Hudson River|line boat to New York on tho fol- Thy Une to Albany on Sunday, with| lowing Sunday ts to be provided @inner on that boat. Upon reaching} The proposed fare for t trip is =) Albany the Barge Canal Day Line ve3-| $150 G4! will be found awaiting the passen-| The number of tourists ger at the terminal. All meals ond|will be limited lodgings during the succeeding two twenty persons far each trip a maximum of uch stateroom 8 to f HUGH KAHLER- Lawton has intormation that the Parrot is in Hamilton, disguised as a] ™ark on his regord would hurt him, g life In payment for his sins; he was craning their necks to read the letter Qweeks, available on board the vessel, bave running water, Al) bookings for ' ge: WILL B-JOHNSTONE WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY. ed the chief hoarsely. “The same fist IS NOW (PEN he used on the other letters. I'd know most successful detective in the} it anywhere. ‘Thin makes It open and 1 Teal fine Teacher! shut. Thorne, you've certainly han and jealous of the Tracker’s rec-] ated it nicely—I don't think! ‘This Wor lets you out, You're suspended, and A nderful TIMOTHY PARROT and RAWLINGS—A crook with many] 1'i1 see that you're dismisted as soon! Route to Watkins Glen sund a note in his possession read-| #8 I can get to the commissioner. I've ' » from tt i D, t hide from me, Timothy Parrot.| jcceasory. It would serve you right!" r more before you pay for Dora] Thorne rose, laying the letter on the| The Bureau of Tours of the Auto- daughter of a crook, the best way, wit and goes in as cell mate. They] to fottow the only profession he knew] centage of good hard surface, is to go e@ getaway except in the employ of a private anc “get him.” agency, and even there the black Tracker accompanies Lawton to the|#!ways. He turned quickly. house, but is captured by a prison guard. Lawton sneaks by and attacks the] "Give me a chance to get Lawton,|Dingmans Bridge I owe him that, and I'll get him] down the Delaware Valley through FI Bushkill to Stroudsburg. persist. He was to be blamed not goat was always needed in such a flasco as this, and he offered a broad target for attack, he realized, He couldn't blame the chief for being an- | C°n0 3 gry. After all, if he had played a more careful game he couldn have lost as hopelessly as this. He de- anor. there are one or lice and impressed glances from his beyond which the dead man lay, and] nina to Watkins. still revealed the avenue by which the glanced about him at the shadowy|;, syracuse, then houses; he wasted no time in useless} | tered, dozen passages to near-by streets, and mind automatically turned to the problem of picking up that trail. OM- from the instant when he realized how he had not the least part. Potentially, | jan Reservoir to He saw the surest way to find Law-| iown over the to escape. In that case her arrest would be certain and swift, if Mc- Namara were assigned to the case, a8} purgh. he unfolded with shaking fingers. To Whom It May Concern— This ts to certify that T am the man known as Timothy Parrot. I hereby confess that | am guilty of many crimes against the laws of many States, some of which, for my amusement, I have already confessed tu the police in ng. 1 am preparing this document to serve as an ald to the police in the event of my death; I stand, I believe, in imminent danger at the hands of the excaped convict known as Daniel Lawton, with whom, as established at his trial, 1 was gssociated in a robbery seven years ago, and who has contrived, ever since, to keep track of me, as videnced by threatening letters which will be found somewhere on the premises now oceupied by me unless he finds and destroys them after killing me. I have sought to protect myself as far as possible by coming to Hamilton and securing rooms close to the residence of a prison keeper, in the hope that Lawton will not venture here, but I am well aware that he is a desperate and fearless man, and he reason to desire my death more than his own life, might be. And he had his own ways father were to be overtaken, the one of good hard su chance of accomplishing {t was to let] ithout a doubt the girl imagine herself unobserved,| the world. him. It was too late to warn her, would be out of communication with the chief for the present. If she had chance that he could keep her from a cell and McNamara’s third degree, Secretary even now. . He came back to the street again, confronted by the dismaying realiza- TOKIO, July 5 Lawton had held the purse for them both, and Thorne had not ventured to rouse the other's suspicions. Now, un-} Admiral Baron less he went upstairs and bor rowed jal Japanese from one of his late comrades, he Ee i could not even pay for a telephone us Jof it. He was helpless. He couldn't] Navy Denby. of Lawton’s daughter, he couldn't even get downtown unless he walked, “Hey, there, how much longer do 1 cape a my e it may e: hurried search yut is sure to be found if I am Killed, My inten tion is merely to avoid the chance that some innocent person may be suspected of killing me, 1 have no malice against Lawton, whose hatred is well deserved 1 sign this documest by the name under which | have com mitted my crimes, which is not the name T own, . TIMOTHY PARROT “is his writing, all right,"? whisper- The driver of the car which had helligerently. “What's all th about? Where do I come int” so Thorne laid glad hands on him. “1 was looking for you. We'll duck back ten In it for you If we get there inside of an hour. Open her right and shoot!"" Be oowiae Copyright, 1922, ‘The Mell syndicate, ine, | Hethachtro Togo, @ (Continued To-Morrow.)” '"” | Kuto, Admiral pa Lhe TB da and Capt. Lyman Naval Attuche of the Amer’ wa te atrlctiy: linmited to the capacity | SHIP NEWS INFORMATION |be:«y- of staterooms. —- ‘The women of ° start from Albany on Monday morn Just for Artists ing and Includes overnight stops at| ‘These trips will be under the direc- Due To-Day anged 4 full week of sports ‘and Amsterdam, Little Falls, Sylvan| tion and management of C. 8. Hawk- | Acropolis, Gibraltar ins, Room 403, No, 80 Broad Street, | lres. Monroe. London — got a good mind to hold you as un and Return, xC' ton’ % § him with every Poltee Department in| Trail, recently opened, announces that In order to get Lawton's story, the [Tracker assumes the name of] the world, make it impossible for him through Newark, ville, Dover, Newton, Branchville,| He landed at Liverpool in the guise crossing the Delaware River via of a corn mer-|Judge and jury. The jurymen were fou were going to get Parrot,| The above route is also the best : go a new trial Octob 6. 1 ¥ ° 1 few days spent at w trial. In October, 1916.] it was good enough for the French too Bare tae other. “I guess we'll] route at the present time to — a hotel in the] ®@ was found guilty and sentenced] Passport OMce, and when Amonda- worry along without your methods.|the Delaware Water Gap from New Strand he, too, |t© Penal servitude for life. rain announced at the port that she That'll be all, for you."’ York, Motorists going to the Water visited Newcastle, De Rysbach was not the only| had come to join her future husband, Thorne saw that it was futile to]Gap will find it preferable to go to i Stroudsburg and then on to the Gap. Glasgow and Edin- only for Lawton's escape, but for the] From Stroubsburg go north via Ninth murder of Parrot, as well, A scape-| Street and follow a new concrete road through Bartonville, Tannersville and Swiftwater to Pocono Mountains, where connections are made for Po- Frém Mount Pocono to Tobyhanna of rough roads which can be traversed with very little difficulty. From there served his bad luck. on There is a new conereta road re- All right, sir." Hg threw back his) entiy finished to Seranton and the | MOP! en i shoulders and walked out, followed See coed aurtacn ovet the sacoatried an\ Ameren pkemBoHt) by mardontc grins from the local po- |e Sina sprail to Binghamton 1s ANOTHER RUMLEBEN SPY. agents then living in Spain. The nat; | ton to Owego ' late mates. Although he was om. | Perret. e cane de 8° \draw from him his passport in order] Tea! national allegiance at all, but cer- | Guerrero's trial and then sent back to cially relieved from duty and no lon-|\estal, due to road construction on ger entitled to pursue and arrest,}ing south side of the river. From habit led him around to the rear Of }there on to Elmira, through Waverly, the store, where, standing in a litter|the surface is good and the view of of dismembered packing cases, he}ine Chemung Valley entrancing. could look up at the Ighted window |aore is also a good road from El- whence the thin line of dangling rope], jonger tour can continue north to Geneva, then west to Buffalo and slayer had escaped. Thorne merely} Niagara Falls, or cast from Geneva yards of adjacent and abutting | pay, where the Adirondack region ts search for traces here. Lawton could|” Returning trom Watkins there is an have got away by any one of | excellent hard surface road going due +h Ithaca, where Cornel! Rel had shad pianiy. GE Une oun taet aenity ts located, Cortiand, Caze- good his escape by now. Thorne’s}jovia and Richfield Springs to Cooperstown. From Cooperstown the route proceeds via Oneonta to Stam- cially or otherwise he meant to follow| Fora” Herom there on there are two Lawton and bring him back. His I!k- A ways to reach the Hudson River, ing for the man had utterly vanished | Tanyas scenic and with good road conditions. One is to turn south at deliberately he had been betrayed, left | conditions. One 1 “rough Arkville [Same time his true name, This, of lis letters written from Rubleben. It] whom he addressed as Blom, that he to face the chair for a crime in which | ang Phoenicia, then around the Asho- at least, Lawton was his murderer a8fiinie straight on from Stamford well as Parrot's. Thorne’s hand8|theough Prattsville, Lexington and tightened at the thought. Tannersville to Haines Falls, then ton, even as he shrank from using it.| ynich was recently finished, as far as Esther, of course, If she had not palenville, then to Catskill and down been warned of her father's deadly | tne west side of the Hudson to King~ intentions she might not yet have tried] ston, continuing south over the new bridge which was recently opened, srossing the Rondout Creek to New- Thorne felt sure he would be. Mc-| "yea as soon as the construction|a young bluejacket who had deserted |He was ready to serve any and every | cept a Mrs. Dikker, who admitted that Namara believed in getting material work that is now going on between witnesses and possible accomplices] pighiand Falls and Bear Mountain, under lock and key as quickly as|aiso ‘etween Tompkins Cove and ave w, is completed and the et 1 e of persuading them to talk. Thorne Leda habaateaaty Storm Ting Mountain ae EU tre did not like the Idea of Esther Lawton! open to the public, the above circular facing those methods. And, if her} route of 600 miles with 95 per cent. give her every possible reason to join ————— unless she had already lett the Cal: CADETS OF ’81 HOLD derwood Hotel, so that the watchers REUNION IN TOKIO Jone that, ‘ : " + [sible leaders. done that, there was just a bare] Admiral Uryu Entertains} "').' Young man aid not attempt to Former Classmates. tion that his pockets were empty.|—The annual dinner of the class of 1881, United States Naval Academy, provide himself with money lest ne| Annapolis, was held here last night. member of the class, presided, while message. He laughed at the absurdity | #out the table were Secretary of the move, he couldn't communicate with | Admiral Uryu's classmates who came on the United States naval transport Henderson to attend the reunion, and wait Tor my coin?” others prominent in naval, diplo- matic and clyil life in the Far West brought him to Hamilton »; and the Far East. from his seat and approached nnn] Baroness Uryu entertained the ™l ladies of the Henderson's party at the Mitsu! Club and at the theatre. ‘The list of naval diners ut the func- tion Included Premier Baron Kato, to town on high and there’ Kk} himself an Admiral of the Japanese rea an extra) Navy; Admiral Joseph Strauss, Com- mander in Chief of the United States fleet in Asiatic waters; Admiral Count ‘dances for the sailors, esllei Saad BY SIR BASIL THOMSON Chief of British Criminal Investigation * Department 1915-19. . 66 ‘ ‘ In February, 1916, we had informa. S W h L t h eir|'” thaf a young man of good fam pies o Lost T eg ey Rdg ‘ ; his way to England in the employ- ’ N erve Guerrero had brought with him as far as Paris a young woman, a pro- Many German spies were detected by the English Secret Service b& |rossional dancer, who called pseh fore they arrived in England, Raymonde Amondarain, with the Scenic Circular ment of the Germans, come to London, and he found a Spanish merchant in Fenchureh Street who was ready to write a let- SENT TO PRISON FOR LIFE. |ter telling her that he had a clerical Being a British subject, he was|position tn his office open to her if tried at the Old Bailey before ajshe would come. It dia not seem to strike either of ie DINAN, AHR hove chant, though in| 8? far impressed with his story that] them that a young dancer with am private life he was| they disagreed. Probably he expected | extensive wardrobe was scarcely the hetually a film op-| then that he would be released, but| kind of person who would settle down erator. After a] he soon found that he was to under-| to clerical work in a city office, but CHAPTER XI. RVING GUY RIES was a German- American who had been recruited by the Germans in New York. crossing Lake Constance and had kept only one tube as a souvenir. h the greatest per- Montclair, Den- Ruhleben prisoner of whom the Ger-| Senor Guerrero, she was detained, for mans made use. Among the British | it was found that she had given false subjects interned were, of course,| answers to the questions put to her certain Germans who had been natur-! for passport purposes, alized in this country. Among these} On Feb. 18, 1915, Guerrero was an was a German-Jew—we wi!l call him] rested and brought down for examin- are’ reuse for] Erelznitser—whone history is instruc: | ation. his Journey, but,| {ve He came over to England as a] It was now necessary to ascertain Ite cther spies, he] oY &nd in furtherance of his ambi-}who Guerrero really was. Offloers did no genuine business with them,| Uo2 he obtained naturalization. He } were sent out to Spain and they found He returned to his hotel in London on| (ote aspen ee ec and rose |that part of the story was true, He bot Ay fo his mito be manager of his company. In|]did belong to a noble famil but he y 28 after a fortnight spent In the|the course of business he was in Ger-|had fajjen into wild habits and. had north. many on the outbreak of war. become an easy victim to the German burgh and went through the rou- tine of calling upon a number of produce merchants two short stretches and the first step taken was to ask the American authoritiss to with- It is doubtful whether he had any|dancer was kept in custody until h stretch west of tain unguarded utterances had|Spain. He was found guilty and It proved to be forged, and on Aug.|#Foused the suspicions of his fellow- | sentenced to death. 19 late at night the police went| Prisoners, who made a clandestine ex-| A few days after his trial he wrote to Ries's hotel and. arrested him|®™ination of his personal effects |to say that if his life was spared he fast male wae bole 0s:bed: Among these were discovered copies| would give information that would Among his effects was found a ‘et- Sanur usveten one Me break up the whole of the German es- ter from Rotterdam, directing him to Behe. Suuene: je} plonage system, but his confession Motorists desiring | eet a certain person in Copenhagen ue, and particularly the British. | proved to be a tissue of fiction. and report to him the result of his in-|78ere was one paper, evidently the} Early in 1916 we learned that, be= vestigations in England. Ries was ory acter is which he suggest-] sides the perennial question of move- north to Alexandria | #8ked to account for this and he tm-| 7eppeling attack oper pes ac eae EO indo mediately dropped all the pretense ¥ ing England on ac-Janx'ous to locate our munition fac- < : count of his intimate knowledge of | tories, that he was in this country on genu-lthe English roads through motor e ine business. “I am in your power,” wy igh motoring | We learned that a certain Dutch sine m r ,|in the course of business. Jew, who e he said; ‘do what you like with me. A few days before this Pretenitser| Leopold Aloe ene tale aeite - He was tried on Oct. 4, was found gulity and sentenced to death. |i ‘soon became known among the) aaeend,,,wmecially,, to report upon He took his condemnation with per- prisoners that the Germans had re- d given him a sum of matey ete fect philosophy: m leased him. Some of the British then lated at the rate of fifty shillin . On Oct. Ls he was removed to} made it their business to have the|a day for the expenses of his trip. the Tower, and as oneie 8 on copies of Preiznitser's incriminating] He was allowed to land and very that a date was fixed for hts execution | tetters conveyed to me. He presented! careful observation» was kept upow he called for writing materials and | himself at my office, without knowing} him. It was found that he was com made a full confession, giving at the |tnat 1 had in my possession copies of|.municating with a person in Holland that it might be examined by experts. course, cannot be published in of the considerations that had made him conceal it when he was arrested. He was permitted to shake hands with the firing party and he said, was there that he told the marvelous|had once dealt in films under the story of his escape. name of,Leo Pickard, and that he had All went well until I produced his] been getting his living in buying and letters and read them to him. Heeling ims, both in England and i ‘A was abashed for a moment, but only|‘n Holland. In July, 1915, he men- a pouipenrodty Cine vent duty, as T/¢5, a moment. His explanation was|tioned in a letter to Blom that he : that his object in offering to guide] was about to return to Holland, THE ONE ENGLISH SPY. Zeppelins to England was to be sent}and in one of Blom’'s letters occurred I have sald that throughout the|over here in order to offer his services| the passage, “If you cannot do an: war there was no case of espionage|to the Air Ministry as a guide for|thing in London, try the provinces.” by any Englishman, but there was|aeroplanes bombing Germany. I think] It was arranged that a call should one curious exception. In November,|that during the war I never met a|be made at Blom's address and it 1f17, jt came to our knowledge that |more loathsome type of international. | was found that no one lived there ex- Kingston; or, con- Kaaterskill Clove, his ship in Spain had gone straight| master {f only it should be to the ad-|her maiden name was Sophia Blom, to the German authorities in Madrid| vantage of Lionel Max Preiznitser.| Further inquiries showed that this and given them such naval informa-|And we could do nothing more drastic | address was an ordinary post-box for than iptery him until the end of the] letters addressed to the German Se- war. cret Service, In August Vieyra was arrested, his house was searched and The spy who made the worst tm-|in it was found the usual outfit for pression was Albert Meyer, who had|secret writing. His explanation of factory in the north of England nearja very mean history. He was one of his connection with Blom broke down his home. He was arrested at Bar-|those young scoundrels who live upon | 'nder interrogation. He was tried by, row and sent to London, and se un-|women, defraud their landladies and] court martial on Nov. 11, found guilty easy was the labor situation at the}cheat their employers. A letter was} nd sentenced to death, but the sen- time that a strike was Immediately|stopped in the censorship which| tence was afterward commuted to one threatened until the nature of the|proved on examination to be full of | of penal servitude for life. charge was explained to the respon-|secret writing. The name and ad-| ‘The most absurd person employed dress of the sender were false, by the Germans was Joseph Marks. After a long and patient search|{ was watching the work of the Port deny the charge. He was the young-|_ man of uncertain nationality, | Officers at Tilbury one summer af- est of a family who were all serving} named Albert Meyer, was arrested in|ternoon when one of my Inspectors in the war. His explanation was that/a lodging house. He had been mov-| whispered to me that in the next he went to the Germans in Spain in|ing from one lodging house to another. | room was a person over whom they order to find out thelr military secrets, | promising the landladies that he would | would be glad to have my help. He but though there could be no doubt} pay them as soon as his remittances|said that his very first question had about the facta there was doubt about|arrived from “his parents’? abrond.|reduced the man to a pitlable con- his mental condition, and as his fam-| He was tried by court-martial on|dition of fright and that when he ily made themselves responsible for} Nov, 5 and sentenced torgeath. His|was told that within a few minutes his future good behavior he was dis-)end characteristic. He had be-| he would have an opportunity of mak- charged’ to their care. haved quietly during the weeks that|ing his explanations to me in person THE COMEDIAN SPY. Follaxes ts nom but as soon as|he collapsed, murmuring, ‘‘Then Ba- e knew fate and was take CourtSnay Henslop de Rysbach was}, cell to the place of son ha te GEE Marae Ten eNOS a’ British subject, but his father was} .+rick up the tune of ‘Tipperary.’ 6 lized in this coun- ry: Adopting a manner suitable to the an Austrian natural On reaching the miniature rifl e . Rysbach was a music hall le range J occasion, T sat down at a table and try. De Rys he burst into a torrent of blasphemy. |sent for Marks, and there stumbled artist who, on the outbreak of war, )anq he had to be placed forcibly in the }into the room a positive mountain of had an engagement in Germany. He| chair and strapped in. He tore the|fesh, over six fect in height and pro- was a comedian, one of those whOlbundage from his eyes and was still t : “ can sing and juggle and play tricks|atrigeiing when he died portionately broad and deep; he must peed Pe have weighed at least sixteen stone. HAGN A CORRESPONDENT. At the moment the whole mass was One day the Postal Censor detained o 4 to a man in The most 4 trembling like a jelly. The port two songs addresses curious and ineffective of | 1 cauced was Dutch, ia PaneDors Zurich. one was called “The Ladder|the German sples during the war was ot Love” and the other “On the Way|Alfred Hagn, a young Norwegian, |&t ™Y frst question he broke down ti Dustin Town.” ‘The songs were|whom we arrested on May 24, 1917. /8N4 sald, “If you will have patience wened "Jack Cummings, Palace|He was one of those young people|With me I will tell you the whole Theatre, London.” No such person} who write novels, paint futurist pic- w a I saw one of your men existed and for some time there was|tures, compose startling poetry and on peers the steamer watching me I nothing to indicate the sender. An|prose for the magazines and fall to Leif dell ele an EA you txamination of the songs with ajarrive anywhere. He had gone to|iaent men nuts 0 eee ee eee possession of. He had then given himself up as a deserter and had been discharged from the service. He had since obtained work {n a munition MEYER THE WORST SPY. face road will be the most scenic in Denby and (Associated Press). Sotoich! Uryu, Im- Navy, retired, a the United States, Rear Admiral Kanje Gentaro Yamashita : i . -| America in the hope of selling his pic- A. Cotton, U. 8. N.,| Suitable developer brought up be 4 Caeet Y Bad ‘ tures, and had returned penniless in]™morrow morning.”” (His guilty con- n Em_|tween the bars of mus'e an account | {eves Bi science had converted an ordinary of what the writer had seen In this country. De Rysbach was then ap- pearing at a local music hall in Glas- gow with a female trick cyclist. As Soon as b's identity with Jack Cum- In examination it transpired that he | fellow-passenger into a polige agent). had written only two or three articles,| The bottom rung of the ladder of for which he received £2 aplece, ana|infamy was touched by a young that his expenses in England had| Fleming whom I examined in 1917. come to much more than this. He had been employed by the Bel Yokohama have ai MASKS | 5 ay cmt dann i blished he was New York City. AE eet Ba FIREMEN IN Seen havens se jut through | He was brought to trial on Aug. 27,|gicns to pilot young Belgians over the <= —— Due To-Morrow STARTLE DINERS |, Getaitead examination. 1917, when his counsel told the whole| Dutch frontier. He proposed to a BABY, TWC YEARS OLD, Ir ial tatealie —— He tcld ua that with a view of|f his unhappy story. He had been a Pra sunan saat they should. sell the La Tourdonnate, Havre’? June 19] Ammonia Leak Remedied as Res-| 1 berty he had promised| spatled child whose every whim had|secret to the Germans and divide the CROSSES OCEAN ALONE | iviven Weinewtn Havre shine x aurant Gets Theil gaining his Hberymans, though he| been indulged by his parents, All went |money. He said that eight men were winds. Mather Waldhe. tee necl le co Ja A) pinera in’ the Apthorp Cafeteria, No.| hover intended to fulfil his promtse.| well while his father lived, but at his|to cross that night; for a few gulden ica Binataey Sucks. | Sailing To-Day Go East 14th Street, were startled Inst|t{o admitted that he had been sup-|death the mother was left nearly des-|he would have sacrificed the lives of One of the cabin passengers on the | Maite Close. night by the appearance of three fire-| plied with a secret Ink made up in|titute. He gave no trouble In Maid- eight of his fellow. countrymen who |Gamerontn, Naples. n.00 Ax Salle on | men wearing mask who walked|the form of an ointment, but declared | stu Prison for two years and|had trusted him, With great presence Laconia of the Cunard Line docking ristobal .°. 7.30 A.M of mind the F renchman gave him to that he had thrown It away while| then he went on hunger strike—not here yesterday wac a two-year-old bby Vitoria, Hermuda. 1200 AM] through the re iaurant aod semenieg to} that_ for the usual reason of forcing the| understand that he himself was a who crossed the ocean In the role charge | Manchuria, Hamburg. 11.00 A'M | the cellar below. gel for’ the Firs x hands of the authorities, but because | German agent and that he would are of Miss te Aldis, a matron of the | Hay 5,00 P.M. i cartment Rescue Squad had been sent | KIL LAND TRALN, i varie the whole Huai bee ABA ship. was Cora Mac Garfield, London on ee ement wh leak wa Michael Munno. fifty-four, No, 200 he had become convinced that such « is hi ; D and further, daughter of Mra, J. Mitchell usa, Val: my in by the: management when's leak was Bar 1 Avenue, Port Richmond, 8. 1.. wretch as he had no longer the right | that if he would make a trip with him Mth strect, Long Island Bremen 11.00 A.at.| discovered In the ammonia plant tn the | ftlehmon¢ eka henar ie to cumber the earth, It was a form|to England at once he would earn a |mother was at the pler to receiy Danzig Hee nt of the restaurant. was instantly kil ! of delusional insanity. Counscl was|much larger sum. So great was the | baby Saul To-Morrox 2 ona Thomas — Kilbri¢ Staten Island Re kon with the Norwegian Govern- | Fleming's cupidity that he embarked The Laconts male a stop , charge, and Firemen Sullivan and ¢ Mariners Harbor station when he rao} nent and on Sept. 18, 1019, he was [And was received on landing by apex the destina bof her p Maile nora donned gas and found that} under the gates to get a train, Hel oy) iio tg Norway on an under- | cial branch policemen Mt here 120.1 fais Wé second and 496 third class passen: | LAconle, guoky °"Xcon| fmmonia. spread, Monterey, “1 + 8.40 ALM. 1.00 Pabd. oft wv OM.| a faulty valve was | the ana| standing that he would never come to England again. i g the fumes of | taijed to see a train approachin strucl Copyricht, 1922, Doubleday, Page & Ca, (Continued To-Morrow.) The valve was shut] opposite direction and wa hurled more than Afty fect. f