A "GERMAN SPY"

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2337, 19 December 1914, Page 8

A "GERMAN SPY"

ARREST IN THE CITY A CONSTABLE'S CAPTURE A hand fell on the shoulder of the little, dark, woll-dressed man as he was walking along-Cambridge Terrace. He turned aud. found a large policeman at his side. "I want you," said the constable. "Come with mo." "What's that?", asked the little man. "Come on," reiterated the constable. "What for?''. "Come on. If you don't come quietly, I'll make you come somehow." ; "Oh, I'll come. I don't want a eoene. But there's nothing against me." "We'll see." "What's tbo charge, then?" "No-charge. Come along with me." "Very well. I said I'd come." "Will you come quietly down to —- stables?'* "Yes." On the way to the stables the little dark man learned that he was arrested on a charge of being a German spy. . When he reached the abode of horses' and hansoms he was "identified." "Is this the man?" said the Scotland Yarder. - "That's him," came the reply with promptitude and assurance of one who did not .make mistakes, and was in this instance, positive. ■' ''Sure?" continued the constable. : "Absolutely.". . _ Here the suspect protested innocence 'of'espionage!"': ' "Aren't you the man," asked the identification person imperiously, "who was' telling me all about what you wore going to do when tne time came?" ; : The little man denied that he was the individual alluded to. Producing his left. hand from one pocket, the identification man thumped it frequently with his right - hand, remarking to the accompaniment of the beats: "''Aren'tr—you—the m an—who told 'me—that- you—could commandeer —all the horses in ■ Wellington—when the Germans attacked New Zealand—' and place them—at -the disposii of the enemy?" • .' . "No, certainly not," retorted the man under suspicion. "Aren't—you—the man—who told me —that your organisation^-could > put its hands—on; all the motor-cars in Wellington—when it wanted them for the enemy?"

"No," again. "You are," shouted the interrogator, indignantly. And he-waved a heicy fist in the vicinity of the little man's nose. "Oh. don't take it so bad as that," said the arrested one coolly. _ The policeman thanked the identifier for having confirmed his suspicions, and he marched his quarry, off to the station. . There was no trouble en route. The little-man. respected the law, and obeyed.his shfowd and powerful captor. VThey roaohed the station, and tho record.'■bpok,was produced. ..■,, '. ."■Your name.?'.'..'.. .7,... ■ ~.-•

■ "oi'BD-flnd-sb,".answered.tne captive. .'The'constable. put down ..his. pen a moment,,arid tlie word "alias'.', fobj.ed out."of .his" eyos. However, he said nothing, and entered up "O'So-and-scr." "Place of birth?"

(Place given.) , Where were your parents born?" "My father was born in County Down, Ireland, and my mother was born in County '——,- Ireland." Tho constable swallowed something, which was. probably a deep emotion. He looked' as, if he.bims'elf haued from Erin. This process through, the "German spy" was hailed to the sergeant's room. 'GoodKlay, Mr. O'So-and-so," said the sergeant as the suspect walked in: The constable started a little,.but recovered his self-possession and laid his charge with Holmos-like oxpertness. However, the sergeant knew his man too well. The citizen'was released, and tho sergeant, it is said, is still laughing. The constable is still looking Tor tho German Spy.