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Show r""" Straus as It Seems by John IHx r . , I HUMAH VIHMtt I -- C-JJt M w" a Mc"RMICK" SoV. fittW WiTM KrVWtftS, W flv WH THE icST w rV mm&i Up ) who SPtvr M wRTuwe on' AuLlV. i - i HER, M6T HIS DEATH K RMt A fiB" L 3 SPAMS FlKIHO COVAD , ' 5 ? INOCToMR tf3t,,eXATiy I Xl -i s- nitsibiHt month --n- 2t rSfTCR-wt woman pywM i M'W I vAVs2'J.!5r' EXECUTE t By A WVf, U'l-X V.77 MATA HARI-S LOVKR ... Death came to Mata Harl, famous woman adventuress, dancer and World war spy, in October, 1917, before a French firing squad. Moat grieved over Mata Hart's death waa Pierre de Mortissac, a brilliant member of Paris' younger set who loved her devotedly. After her death de Mortissac retired to a Spanish monastery. In October, ISM, 1 years after Mata Hart's execution, loyalist troops ordered or-dered all monks in the monastery to surrender. De Mortissac, instead, grabbed an abandoned rebel machine gun and turned it on the loyalists until his ammunition ran out For this, he died before a firing squad, aa Mata Hart had died In France. Tomorrow: The Indian who ended the Civil war. |