SPY QUEEN

Evening Star, Issue 20193, 5 June 1929, Page 12

SPY QUEEN

KEPT IN ASYLUM Germany’s most famous spy, a beautiful woman, head' of the German Espionage Service during the war, has now been interned in an asylum in consequence, it is stated, of morphia and cocaine taking. Her identity was never ered, but she was known in England as “Mrs Captain lleinrichseu,” ■ and in France as “Mademoiselle le Hocten r.” The “ Queen of the Spies ” was one of the mast mysterious personalities of the war, and the French and English secret services were never able to lift the mask and establish her identity. Among the many nicknames which the agents gave her were: “The Blonde Lady/' “dike Black Gat,” and “ The Red Tiger.” Certainly her claws stretched iar over the frontiers, and no agent was ever really out of her sight. Frequently she sent one agent to overlook another, unknown to himself. One of the agents whom this tall blonde with nerves of steel coolly sent to his death was the Greek, Constantin Condoyanis, who was shot in the Bois do Vincennes in May, 1916, for spying on behalf of Germany. Condoyanis thus described Ins ruthless female chief: “ fiiie is an unusually beautiful woman, and extraordinarily intelligent She is possessed of incredible energy, and exercises an irresistible influence upon all with whom she deals. Not even officers of the highest rank, who we A) under her authority, ever dared to oppose her commands She had been known to give orders at the revolver’s point. “ She acts not from self -interest, but from inclination and passion,” ho added. “ Spying is in her blood.” She frequently made motor car journeys, herself at the wheel, through Holland, whence German agents were sent to England, in Amsterdam and Rotterdam this elegant woman was a well-known figure Never, however, was she seen alone. She was always accompanied by two Herculean men, who were armed to the teeth.