INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE.
Success of an Ingenious Schema
The 1.0m1.m "Daily Tfli-uT.ipli's" eor-i-.-njioinlciil ;it the Prussian town of Posen advises that tin , courl-mai ti;il (if Lieutenant Wolir.u-'der will conimcjice shortly. The officer is charged wi.Lli having accepted £~>0t)0 from i Russian secret agent for a plan of the fortress of Posen. Finding it impossible to purloin a plan, a girl, named Ada MiiMerthal, whom .Sch.roed.-r was <-n(>a"i'd to many, suggested, it is al-l<-god. that lie should in[■Uμ her sli-ul-di'r-i After several i:ii;-hls' work this
task is said to have been accomplished, and the girl, travelling to Jlussiia, received the money. The extravagance, of the couple resulted in suspicion falling tipo'n them. H'lth were, arrested, and the'incriminating plan was found upon the girl's shoulders when she was stripped for examination in Uift prison.
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 32, 8 March 1912, Page 2
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131INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE. Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 32, 8 March 1912, Page 2
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