A WOMAN SPY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 18 March 1911, Page 9

A WOMAN SPY.

TRICKING- »l >WN MADERO IN MEXICO. As one of the sharp eyes of the "little ea"-le," as Diaz is sometimes called, Miss Mary Garcia, performing hazardous services on behalf of Mexico and its President, reminds one of the women of the North and South who risked everything for love of glory, adventure, of country, a s ; spies, Miss Garcia is not a Mexican, so her liking for this dangerous WOl'k may be put down to sheer daring and nerve. She is now stopping at W'inthrop, Me., and, according to her story, as she tells it in the Boston Post, she tracked for Weeks "rancesco T. Madero, head of the anti-re-electionists, and at another time gained information which led to the European exile of General Bernardo, Reyes, the popular hero of Mexico. She J says: — ••Francesco 1. Madero, head of the anti-re-electionists opposing Diaz, I met at Paso. We were introduced at a public ball, at which.all the notables of the place, and especially the military, foregathered. It so happened that the woman who introduced us was a mutual friend, so that in this instance, at least, I had to work no guile. "Madero was easily the lion of the ball, and it was but natural that all the women present, of whatever age, should desire to meet him. "I was able to make use of the acquaintance in many ways. Through Madero himself I met many other members of the anti-Diaz party. Vouched for by him and in turn by those to whom he introduced me, I was able to mingle freely with the leaders in all the revolutionary centres in Mexico, myself posing meanwhile as an ardent 'patriot.' "Several times I was entrusted by Madero with valuable secrets, and assigned by him to various missions of difficulty. In all of those in which I succeeded, from his point of view, I informed the Government of what I had done, so that the Diaz party, my employers, were the real gainers through my diplomacy. "When I. was finally called off the Madero trail, it was because Diaz wished one of his own relatives to obtain the final glory, and to reap the reward of my work . I was merely the paid worker in his eyes, and he did not deem it meet that there should be any personal credit allowed me for what I had done. As far as that goes, however, my life would not have been safe for an instant if there had happened to be in the Diaz party a traitor to inform the prospective rebels what I was doing. General Bernardo Reyes, Mexico's military hero, who was implicated in the uprising two years ago, is an able, honest man of groat ability, infinitely harder to track than Madero. I was, despite the fact, told to learn what I could about his personal acquaintance and doings. There was need for me to look after his Utters. Others attended to that before ever I had the chance. Mexico is networked by the paid spies of the Government.

"I met him, as I did Madero, at a publie function, this time in the eity of Mexico. Frequently I was entertained at his home. Ido not know whether or not he suspected me, but of this I am certain, that whatever I accomplished in securing evidence against him was done in the face of the greatest difficulties, and with every possible impediment, it would seem, placed in my path. Several time* 1 was nearly detected in the very act of eavesdropping, and detection, I assure you, besides upsetting all my plans, might have meant very grave personal disaster. "But the spice of danger has always been the incentive which has spurred nic to greater effort. I felt that Reyes suspected me, but knew that he would do nothing unless he had positive proof against me. That is the sort of man he is, always fearful of doing another an injustice. It was on this trait in his character that I placed my dependence and to which I entrusted, as it were, my life.

"By dint of repeated visits, I had some idea of where to look for his private papers. In the dead of night I entered his writing-room, admitting myself by means of false keys and abstracted from his escritoire papers still on file as documentary evidence in the Government archives.

"Soon after this, Reyes was exiled to Europe, and the position of Diaz until quite recently appeared un threatened. But the revolutionits are never entirely crushed. The fire of rebellion is indigenous to the soil, and smoulders as eternally as that of Mt. Etna, with outbreaks very nearly as frequent."