SPY STORIES

Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1920, Page 3

SPY STORIES

HOW TWO SPIES DIED. (By Electric Telegraph —Cop/npn' 1 (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 7, The‘..“Morning Post” is publishing a series of spy stories. One details the doings of fat George Breecow who posed as an American, and was associated with Mrs Wertheim in an attempt to secure naval information. After being arrested, Breecow in his lonely prison cell, lost bis nerve, and became fearful of what the woman would say of him. He wrote a voluminous confession concluding with a nauseating appeal for mercy. He was in a state of semi-collapse at the trial and broke down completely in the execution chamber. An inquest showed that lie died of heart failure before the bullet struck him. The woman is serving ten years imprisonment. Busehman, who was a fine violinist, was a spy of a more manly type and posed as a traveller on behalf of Dierks Coy., and said he was selling picric acid. The prosecution pointed out that Dierks were previously cigar merchants. When condemned, Rusclnnan asked to he allowed to play his violin to solace his final hours. He spent his last evening in the Tower of London, playing, and when led forth to execution he picked up his violin and kissed it passionately, saying—“ Good-bye, I shan’t want you again.”