Identifier: celebratedspiesf00bart (find matches)
Title: Celebrated spies and famous mysteries of the great war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Barton, George, 1866-1940
Subjects: Spies World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, Page company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e able to patch together a pretty good description of this remarkable woman. She was a brunette, about thirty-five years old, and of striking carriage. She had bright black eyes, was quick in her movements, and had altogether an agreeable personality. She was well educated and spoke English, French and German with equal ease. In fact, it would be no misuse of the much-abused word to say that she was beautiful. It must also be said, in behalf of the strange female, that she was as discreet as she was beautiful. Aside from the letter that was discovered in the effects of the prisoner, little was found that could convict her of being part and parcel of the scheme to abuse the hospitality of the United States, and of the many plots to blow up Government buildings. She was traced to a fashionable apartment in San Francisco, and, at what they considered a favorable moment, the secret servicemen prepared to take her into custody, but when they entered the bird had flown and never reappeared in that place.
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Copyright by the International Film Service, Inc. WOLF VON INGEL THE MASTER GERMAN SPY 313 A further investigation into the antecedents of the man in the case indicated that he was a German who had been sent to this country for the purpose of assisting in the maintenance of contraband wireless stations supported by the German Government for the purpose of obtaining military information and of transmitting it to Berlin. After that industry had been pretty well destroyed, he was sent to the coast to employ his talents in activities that were certainly not in the interest of this Government. One of these seemed to connect him with the elaborate German-Hindu plot to foment a mutiny among the natives of India. It is claimed that in February, 1915, he inserted an advertisement in Spokane newspapers looking to the purchase of a tract of land on which to colonize several hundred Spanish families. These families, Federal officials said, were Hindus, and the purpose of their colonization was to permit

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