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Show TURKISH WOMAN SPY DIES OF PNEUMONIA 'NEW YORK, March 30. Madame Despina Davidovitch Storch, the young Turkish woman who was charged" with being the leader of a band of German spies taken into custody in this city a fortnight ago. died suddenly today in her quarters on Ellis Island it was learned tonight. Madame Storch 's death is believed to have been due to pneumonia, although secrecy was maintained as to the details. de-tails. She had been taken to Ellis Island pending action by the government govern-ment which probably would have resulted re-sulted in her being deported to France, where she might have met the traditional tradi-tional fate of a spy. Madame Storch was born in Constantinople Con-stantinople only twenty-three years ago. Her father was a German' and her mother' a Turk. |