MORE ESPIONAGE.
PLAN TATTOOED ON GIRL'S BACK. OOURTMAKTIAL PENDING.
By Cable —Press A*»ociation—Copyright. Received 14, 1 a.m. London, February 13.
The Daily Telegraph states that the courtmartial of Lieutenant Schroeder commences shortly. He will be charged with accepting £SOOO from a Russian se-. cret agent for a plan of the fortress of Posen. Finding it impossible to purloin a plan, a girl named Ila Nullerthal, whom Schroeder was engaged to marry, suggested that it be tattoed on her shoulders. After several nights this was accomplished. The girl, while travelling in Russia, received 1 money, and the extravagance of the couple resulted in suspicion, and both were arrested, and the incriminating plan was found when she was stripped and examined in prison.
Such a proceeding as tattooing a document on a woman's back has previously been known only in fiction. In Rider Haggard's novel, "Mr. Meeson's Will," the mililonaire publisher cast With others on a desert island had his will tattooed by a sailor on the back of a girl castaway. It was subsequently exhibited in Court and duly proved.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 194, 14 February 1912, Page 5
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179MORE ESPIONAGE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 194, 14 February 1912, Page 5
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