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Show LODY THE SPY 18 EXECUTED Faces Firing Squad in Old Tower of London With Unshielded Un-shielded Eyes. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) London. Nov. 13 At 7 o'clock on the foegy morning of November 6. Carl Hans Lody. the German naval lieutenant, whom the people of Ion-don Ion-don had come to know as "Lody the Bpy," sat in a rhmr in n court yard of the old Tower of London, and faced a firing snuad selected to put him to death. He had been convicted by court martial of communicating with th" German authorities to the detrlninnt of England, and in view of the agitation raised throughout the Rritish isles on the question of alien enemies, no penalty but death seemed to meet the situation. This is the usual fate of all spies caught In war time, but as the court-martial court-martial was held in London, as remote re-mote In many respects from the scene of fighting as New York, some doubt was expressed at first whether the extreme penalty would be inflicted. It was said even that certain members of thp cabinet favored life imprisonment. imprison-ment. But so the gossip runs. Lord Kitchener, quick to see the necessity tor extreme action ulth the spy menace men-ace so rempant, insisted upon the death penalty. Dies With Eyes Unshielded. At any rate. Lody is dead. Ten seconds after he sat in the chair In the tower court yard eyes unshielded at his own request, he toppled forward for-ward lifeless with seven bullets through his breast. Half an hour later an undertaker's wagon came and the body was taken away for burial. In a pauper's grave The prene of the execution the first In the Tower since the middle of the eighteenth centurv is but a few rods from the spot where Anne Boleyn. Lady Jane Grey and other English c.-lebritles died by the axe many years ago. All the retainers and employes in the Towers cluster of old structures soon heard of the execution in fact many of them were awakened by the volley and visitors who came to the Tower that day were told of It in whispers. Lody hud died game they said. Throughout the night he had prayed with a British army chaplain To the last he refused to tell for what person in Germany he was acting. act-ing. Reports Were Important. Nor was it disclosed at the court martial just what r ports Lody liHd sent to Germany. When certain doc uments were discussed reporters were barred from the room That the) were Important, hovwvrr, is -'in rally admitted Those who have read some of the reports pay high tribute lo Lody:8 clearness of expression and the ttCUtcnesi of his observation. Taken Ta-ken as a whole, it is said that his Jata forms one of the most remarkable remark-able exhibits ever brought to the attention at-tention of Scotland Yard Lody was about :'." years old but looked younger Though fl native of Berlin, he had traveled widely, and ' be spoke English with almost an American Am-erican accent This, together with the fad that he looked like an Ameri- j can, was doubtless the main reason be was sent to England as a spy. He had spent much time here be- j fore, but on the last occasion he came in August, shortly after hostilities hostili-ties were declared with Germany. Clever as he was the intelligence office of-fice of the war department soon got wind of his actions, and he was watched. watch-ed. It was during this shadowing that he insisted Ihut he was Charles a in-iis. an American In this role he even went to the police and complained com-plained that he was being followed. This, for a time, threw off his pursuers pursu-ers but the espionage was later renewed re-newed and In October he was arrested arrest-ed English counsel defended him. The courtmartlal was short The prisoner's pris-oner's span of life alter s.-ntence was pronounced was even shorter. He was taken secretly to the Tower and not until four days after hia execution exe-cution was the news officially made public. Whether relatives will make any attempt to claim the body Is not known here. The London papers havo been devoting long accounts of his death in one sense strangely out of proportion, since thousands die each week on the continent. But Lody was a spy, and there was a dash of the picturesque about him, and he died in the Tower, which appealed to the British imagination. No Englishman Eng-lishman laments his death, but all the newspapers pay him the tribute of dying bravely like a philosopher. He had accepted the risk and he paid the penalty. oo |
