Show I 1100 TRUE DETECT VE STORIES I Copyright 1920 by the Wheeler Syndi- Syndi care cae Inc t Of Ot all the German spies who infested I America prior to the time when the United States actually entered the war Paul Koenig was admittedly one of the most dangerous Not even Ed Boy-Ed 01 ci Von Pap en who directed the movements of ot the kaisers kaiser's agents from Washington was as much feared as this huge German who was the active head of an organization tion which balked at nothing in order to attain Its ends In the first place Koenig possessed all the physical attributes necessary to leadership leadership lead lead- In the underworld Standing well weil over six feet he had the arms of an ape and the strength of a giant Ills His years of training in the police police force force of ot the Atlas and Hamburg Am Hamburg American steamship lines had brought hI him into contact with scores of men who vho proved o of value to him dur Ing 1916 and 1917 and under a dozen aliases he would flit from place to place leaving a trail of bomb outrages and In In- In behind him him but but always keep ing Just ou outside the arms arms of the secre secret service operatives Koenigs Koenig's a value however was by no means limited to his strength or his wide acquaintance In criminal circles He was wasas wasas wasas as clever as he was strong as evIdenced by the elaborate system of numbers anc and code addresses which i he worked out and changed automatically every few days After days of careful working for ex cx- example ample United States secret service agents would succeed in tapping Koenigs Koenig's telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone or planting a In the room which he was occupying at the time and would hear him tell one of ot his associates to meet him at a certain sa loon in Harlem or a dive In Jersey City within fifteen minutes The operative knowing that it was impossible for tn tn German erman to cover covel the distance In a quarter quarter ter of an hour would be amazed and as it t was impossible to follow Koenig through the mazes of the office build build- buildings ings the subways and the elevated trains through which he would slip the rendezvous rendezvous rous would be undiscovered Finally however the secret of his code was s worked out and the German agent ha hao had to o resort to other safeguards G It was at this time that he perfected one Ine of the most Impenetrable systems T ever ver employed by a marked man He HeLeve never Leve went outdoors without out being fol- fol i ny Dy at least two wo or UL nis u ow own agents agent and t these by an elaborate a a system of f sig signals signals sig- sig nals would inform r him f whether lt he lie 1 was being shadowed But Inspector Thomas 3 J J. Tunney of the Ne New tf York police de department department department de- de and head of the bomb squad which forestalled many of the German plots offset system with another another an an- another other and oven even cleverer device Tunney's men inca were instructed to trail the suspect only from behind but also from the front One man would be stationed several several several sev sev- eral blocks away from Koenigs Koenig's house or office and by means of a signal Ignal from a second operative in the rear could follow fol fol- follow fol- fol low and anticipate his movements It was in this way that Detectives Corell Coy Terra and Zarnitz were able to keep fairly close watch on the head of the German underground circle but circle but the final capture of the leader was due to chance and the Jealousy of one of his as associates associates as- as associates rather than to any deliberate action ac tion on the part of the men assigned to the caseIn case In fact Koenigs Koenig's very caution was the reason for his capture The detectives who shadowed him for months discovered discovered discovered ered that he made it a rule never to employ employ employ em em- ploy the same man on more than one mission Also his payments for services services ices rendered were marked by parsimony rather than generosity the Von check book showing conclusively that Koenig pocketed the greater part of the rev reward ard and only along what he tie considered essential to the success of ot his own plans Because of this thE tho American d detectives figured that sooner OP 0 later one nn of ot his associates would turn and betray him The break came sooner than was ex expected ex- ex pe Barnitz er and Terra two of ot Inspector I Tuney's shadow experts noted mat George Fuchs a relative whom Koenig had bad employed at a small salary was seldom seen In the Germans German's company Deducing from this that Fuchs Fuhs had had some part in one of the Germans German's plots and working on the theory that he had probably been underpaid the detectives located Koenigs Koenig's relative and Invited him to o accompany them to a nearby saloon There under the Influence of a number of ot glasses of beer Fuchs told his story Koenig o he said i had employed P y him in one h da of the bomb plots plots io and In payment had given him What him What do you think Not 1500 nor 1100 nor even 50 but So-but but IS 15 Ana Ane he 10 slung the sum Bum at mo me in silver as If It I were a dog concluded Fuchs Fifteen dollars in sliver silver queried one of ot the detectives Yes was th the answer Thirty half half- dollars Barnitz looked at Terra and smiled Koenig was not the first man to come to t grief because of thirty pieces of silver silver- and within the tho hour they had evidence lI sufficient to warrent the the- arrest and in In- In of ot the Hamburg-American Hamburg ae- ae on five counts charging violation of section 13 of ot the penal code In cOnnection connection con cOn- with the thEr plot destroy pIe the Wel- Wel We- We Welland r land and canal As Tunney stated when the J I THIRTY PIECE PIECES B 3 OP OF SILVER c case ase had been cleared up Its Ita not always alwa's t the he big things that a criminal does that c convict him more him more often otten than not It its it's s the t tiny Uny almost microscopic slips he makes es A few more dollars would have Insured I Koenigs Koenig's safety But he preferred to hold holdon on to them and by this one action he I seal sealed d his own doom far more effectually than we had been able to do In all the months that we had been follow following ing him |