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Show THE The Cat-- a SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1930. Bagged the Beautiful Russian Spy nd-DogTrickThat And Caused the Arrest of 100 Prominent Persons in Bucharest Ji s J' V N j . ,VV' ' v: SOUGHT DEATH BECAUSE Franca, Famous Paris Actrass, Who Committad Suicida at tha Paak af Har Artistic Caraar. Sha Was a Victim ef Melancholia, Induced by tha Suspicion That Sha Had Betrayed Mata Hari Into tha Hands of tha Franck Service, During tha War. Mil. Claud GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY How could the datactive circumvent tho dog? Suddenly ha was inspired. Gently taking the kitton by the (cuff of ite nock, ho dropped it into tho motor car. A furious hissing and barking brok out. Whilo his faminina confederate stood gaard, V'Jl 'w. - Operator w B snatched case and made G. Metbae. P, Solomon. a Stuff Correspondent. BUCHAREST. HEN doubtful how to catch a notorious spy, stage a fight. That, at leai-t- , is the advice of a Roumanian detective, who, baffled at very turn, finally bagged his prey by this ingenious ruse. Incidentally, in so doing, the sleuth was able to put behind prison baro, at least temporarily, a beautiful Russian girl, who had been preading troublo throughout this city on behalf of the Soviet powers. Thus was the mott sensational espionage intrigue since the World War brought to a close. Arrests by the wholesale nabbed more than one hundred suspects, and these included army officers, high government and police officials and society folk of the most exalted station. All were charged with g being members of a organization with tentacles stretching all over Europe. Because of its adjacency to Russia, Roumania was regarded as being a particularly significant quarter for activities. The most trusted and astute secret agents in Petrograd were, therefore, dispatched to Bucharest. One of their number, and perhaps the cleverest, was a young woman calling herself variously Cilly Ausslaender, doctor of Frau Dtfutsch, and Mrs. chemistry, Grieg, supposedly English. Cilly, to use her simplest cognomen, poke English. German, French and By far-flun- off up with Anti-Espiona- tha brief it. Italian fluently and idiomatically. A year and a half ago she came here. Of arresting good looks, dark and a bit mysterious, she established herself V m a villa in the most aristocratic secINSCRUTABLE She had her own tion of the city. EYES motor car of expensive manufacture and presented perfectly authentic letCilly Ausslaender, ters of introduction to members of the tha Brunette smart set. Beauty, Whose Activities Were Cilly a beauty made her conquest of Laid Bare Through the many men with whom she came in conTrick Staged tact easy. Nor did she scruple to exploit it in the cause to which her crafty by a Roumanian Detective. The versatility Thia Photo Gives a talents were sworn. of the woman was amazing. To one Remarkably Good Idea of group of her new friends she would Her Facial Loveliness That Bewitched Many Men. pose as English ; to another as German. Constantly she was seen with one gallant or another at the rpces, at alighted. He entered the dwelling, having, to the fashionable dances, at the play. It was later shown, at the climajc of watchers extreme joy, left behind on the the Soviet-spinvestigation, that she seat of the automohad drawn into her organization many bile a thickly Roumanians of illustrious standing. stuffed brief case. T here was Major Varzaro, of the GovThats what I ernment Technical Corps; G. Methae, a civil engineer, charged with being a want," the detecleader; the attorney, Grozea, anT a tive murmured to It his companion, and made joung engineer named Solomon. was through the activities of the last-- , vehicle swiftly. His sense of elation was short-livenamed man that full details of the monstrous plot were unearthed, and he There, beside the brief case, a huge At the played a prominent role in the little police dog sat on guard. strangers approach, the animal bristled drama that was responsible for Cillys and growled, crouching protectingly unmabking. over the treasured brief case. He had A member of the local detective force had been assigned to keep a .obviously been trained for Just such emergencies as this. wary eye on Solomon, whose friendThe detective was In despair. Here ship with Cilly and other persons capable of overt acts had aroused was the golden opportunity of a lifetime frustrated by this wretched beast! suspicion. The sleuth, aided by a feminine confederate, shadowed the suspect How could he circumvent the. hostile day and night, but was never able to dog? Suddenly he was inspired. In a window basked a get anything on the engineer, because nearby ground-floo- r of the latters extraordinary canniness. kitten, purring happily. Gently taking it by the scruff of its neck, he dropped But one afternoon Operator B it into the motor car. A furious hissfollowed Solomons motor car, which drew up at a house, where the motorist ing and barking broke out. Operator WM Pro-Sovi- vf , f. t 1 , jfeV y d. to take advantage of the melee between the two animals. While his feminine confederate stood guard he snatched up the coveted prize and made off with it. Thus Cilly Ausslaenders eagerness to protect Soviet interests proved her undoing. Ample evidence to inculpate both herself and Solomon was found in the brief cane. Especially informative was a list of names of persons concerned in the plot. This led to a wholesale round-u- p which netted many notables not hitherto suspected. Letters in Cillys handwriting pointed to her as the instigator and organizer of the entire scheme, and she, with fellow culprits, was lodged in jail to await VV tr QUEEN OF SPIES Mata Hsrl, Executed for Her Crafty Plotting in Bohalf of Germany, During tho War, by tha French Authorities. This Picture Shows Her in One of Har Remarkable Dancing Costumes. trial on the charge of espionage. Even when confronted with palpable evidence of her plotting, Cilly remained an inscrutable and figure. Her nerve is apparently of iron, and she has never betrayed herself into any admission of complicity. Outwardly shu is so placid as to give to the credulous the impression of innocence, yet crmiminologists have likened her to Mata Hari, the woman who sent thousands of Allied soldiers to their deaths during the How Uncle Sam Spent 70 Million Dollars This Year to Say World War through her machinations. Cilly has also been compared to Frau Helene Meyer, who during wartimes was known as Mile. Docteur. She was proved to have been the motive behind the German espionage power system, and her achievements were notable. She directed her certainly operations from headquarters in Berlin, and the French were hard put to it even to glean a peersonal description of her. In the catalogue of famous female spies mention must be made of the Baroness Carla Jenssen. In her autobiography the Baroness discloses some astounding secrets of her trsde. This clever Dane calmly admits that while in the employ of a great European power she gave poisoned kisses to an She also disOriental potentate guised herself as a chambermaid in a Paris hotel to steal the wallet of a dangerous agitator; snared a London drug trafficker; fought for her life in an underground cavern In France, and turned up a group of South African diamond thieves by appearing as a ghost. Yet another adroit woman spy was Marthe Moreuil, who, as Mile. Foxtrot, succeeded in convicting three Englishmen of espionage. She was an artists model and parachute jumper, apd gained her nickname through her grace and skill on the dance floor, where she charmed the men she suspected. Other ladies adept at the practises of this profession include the Baroness Lilika dAudreve Sevillya, who was employed by the Central Powers during the war, but who was accused of having executed a double cross in behalf of Russia a statement made by Krim-inKommissar Steinhauer, the Kaisers master spy. In this particular case, it was the man who brought about his feminine opponents downfall. But generally speaking the odds are all in favor of the woman, for obvious reasons. Had it not been for the fight, beautiful Cilly mitfit be walking the streets of Bucharest today, scheming but unsuspected. al Merry Christmas statistics have just STARTLING about the amount of money spent yearly by citizens of the United States for Christmas cards. This year it is estimated that the total bjll has reached, if not surpassed, $70,000,0001 Authority for this statement is a member of the Greeting Card Association, whose personnel is drawn from the ranks of the manufacturers of these hugely popular bits of paste0 board. More than fifty firms and shops figure on the list of retailers. In the past seventeen years there has been a terrific jump in the greeting-card industry. The volume of retail sales, in 1913, was a mere By 1920 it had reached almost $34,000,000, while in 1921 the $40,000,000 mark had been attained. The next two years each saw a $6,000,-00- 0 jump. In 1924 sales reached Last year the $100,000,000 goal was passed. The sums mentioned represent greeting cards of all sorts Christmas, Valentines Day, Easter, Mother's Day and An interesting birthday felicitation. fact is that while, the United States produces and Ubes more of these gaily colored rectangles than any other country, the custom originated in England in 1846, having been the inspiration of a nobleman. Three examples of individual taste CepliU, Lilt, la terns Utssl Tutere I mice, 18,-00- WRflv S $10,-000,00- .vl : a $70,-000,00- 0. txO Mrs. Lucilla Webstar Gleason, Comedienne, with Her Screen Made of Cards. Greeting W'-Christmas cards are illustrated herewith. It is amusing to contrast the austere preference of Queen Mary of Great. Britain with tha more martial and ktirring inclination of her eldest son, the Prince of Wales. Equally dif ferent is the flair of Mrs. Lucille Webster Gleason, famed comedienne. She In let., Oral amsle Blabls leimi Ceutea, Raphes! Tuck A Sees. Lt4. The Prince of Waless Xmas Csrdl The Sovereign of the Seas. appears to have a weakness for all kinds of cards, as exemplified by her utilization of them for fancy screens. What kind of cards do you, by the way, prefer t ; r t v,' Oautesy, Raphael . ; - Tuck A Robs, L Card of Queen Mary ef England! 'Girlhood of Mary, Quaen af Scale by Howard Daria |