SUICIDE OF A SPY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2468, 22 May 1915, Page 5

SUICIDE OF A SPY

KUEPFERLI HANGS HIMSELF London, May 20. The 'German spy Kuepferli committed suicido bv banging himself with a scarf from a ventilator in'Brixton prison. He loft the following nieSsage oil a- state;— "I am a soldier with a rank which I do not desire to mention. I havo had a fair trial, hut am unable to stand the strain longer. I lVCuld havo preferred to be shot, but- do not, wish to ascend the scaffold." A Masonic sign followed tbc-5? words;, The lelUf ; "I caanot he a.

liar and a perjwfr. I am not dying al a spy, but a soldier. What I have done lias been dono for my country."On Tuesday last the trial of Kuepferli was commenced at tho Old Bailey. The accused left Now York on February_4 as a third-class passenger on tho Arabic, representing himself as an American. He arrived at Liverpool on February 14, and ivas shadowed until he arrived in. a London hotel. The "New York Sun's" London correspondent stated that Kuepferli's arrest revealed the fact that New York was tho centre of a Gorman spy system against Britain. Euepferli's movements were carefully mapped out before he left New York, and h© accomplished his mission in Britain in five days, though ho had never been in Britain before. Two other men, Mulier and Halm, are said to hare worked in I conjunction with Kuopferli, and to have employed similar methods. They are to be tried later. .