STEWART ESPIONAGE CASE
declaration by the informer.
By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Received 14, 10.15 p.®. Berlin, February 14.
The Hamburger Nachrichtan interviewed Verru, the informer in the Captain Stewart case. He stated that he joined the British Espionage Bureau in 1908 at the request of the director of a brewery who Verru represented on the Continent. The War Office paid him £250 annually. When the brewery discharged Verru in 1910 he joined thi German counter espionage service, continuing his relations with the. British. Captain Stewart introduced himself as from the War Office. He was disguised, fnd called himself Martin, and stated that he. intended to go to Germany as a traveller for patent bottle stoppers. Verru accordingly felt it his duty to guard Germany against 'systematia British espionage. Germany, moreover, paid him for his services better. ' A swarm of English detectives, he said, badftrflowed him since August, trying to kidnap him in an autombbile.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 195, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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153STEWART ESPIONAGE CASE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 195, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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