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Show MISS DEC KM AN' S VANCOUVER CAREER WAS PRO-GERMAN Special to The Tribune. VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 1-1. Miss A ueiiFta. Minnie Deekman, held by the United Statf-s authorities at .alt La.ke on a. eharjr of aF.-isUnsr in the a r tempted escape - there of Alvo von Ahensleben and other interned Germane. Is well known in Vancouver. She livpd here for be v e ra 1 yea rs and wa s at one ti m e employed em-ployed in A. Grossman's family. About the time the war broke out she was acting a-s goveiT.ess in the home of Mr. anrl .Mrs. .7. I Hoberts. At that time Mr. Roberts had her registered at police headquarters as an enemy alien. When her sympathy with the German cause became outspoken she left the service ser-vice of the t'a.mily and went To live with an Adams family in Point Grey. Miss Deekman th'-n lived for some time in West Vancouver, wher p)ti parsed as a Da ne. Thin v a ? --om pa ra 1 1 v e 1 y easy , as she w-as born in Schi;swi-Ho!stetn. Some months atro .he we nr. to i?eatt!, telling her friends she was e-oins to the Sound city to be married. Those who knew Miss Tterkrnan during her Vaur.otr.i-r re-,lden--- te'd many stories of her pronounced attitude in the war. Some of them declare that she should have heen interned aw soon aa the waa broke out. because of the way in which she criticised the allied cause and expressed ex-pressed fervent hopes for a Hun victory. On one occasion, it is related, she way given the task of selling tickets on a doll raffle conducted bv tue now defunct Women's exchange, the first t'hrisi mas after I he war outbreak. She had a booth in one of the city jewelry stores. One day during the ticket sale a newspaper news-paper extra on a war event was issued. While others in the store ran to gr:t an ext r;. hoping (hat it would tell of an a ilied victory. Miss Deekman coolly pro-cbimed pro-cbimed that the only tiling she wished was that it would be about a ffreat win for the Germans. There was a disturb- ; am-e a.s a result of her remark, and even- , tually Mrs. Leslie Wright, then president '. of thn exchange, removed Mies Deekman i from her post. I Kniest A. Leybold was well known and frequently visited friends at Kerrisdale. where, it is presumed, he met the I'eck-man I'eck-man woman, w ho now asserts that she is his fiancee. Leybold way a prominent figure in the German colonv here prior to the outbreak of the war, living with another young "junker" named Von Campe on Sear on street, in a house overlooking the dokF, oil tanks and Immigrant shed 8 on the inlet. Many wild carousals are said to have taken place at the houe, which, following the declaration of war, w as searched for possible documents of value to the enemy. en-emy. Later, it is said, fire destroyed portion of the residence, but this was long after the men had been forced to move because of the manner in which they cundui ted themselves. Later both l oyboM and Von C'a mpe ; manacred to get acros-s the border, where the activities of the former led to hiB arrest and detention about the same time that AUo von AlvenMeben was placed in internment. Me had ben very intimate with Von Ah ensleben prior to the outbreak of the war, possessed of ample fund., and waa veil known in the social set of which the erstwhile financier was a leader. Jt is said that George F. Scheotenborg was also known In this city, having resided re-sided for a time at North Vancouver. He is said to have been a friend and intimate, inti-mate, of Raron von Graevenitz. a local agent of i he Germa n government, whose activities led hint to Germany upon the outbreak of war and wiio was later reported re-ported to N1 fighting on the western front. Subsequently, he i- said to nave gone ius.-i ne, but this report has since been denied. |