GERMAN MYSTERY WOMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16561, 9 June 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

GERMAN MYSTERY WOMAN.

Some particulars are available about Alwine Boldt, the handsome German woman who was sentenced at Westminster Police Court last week to six months' hard labour for infringing the Aliens' Registration Order. In the earliest days of the war all enemy subjects were required to register with the police and not move more than five miles from their place of residence without permission, but Alwino Boldt has moved freely, about the country, posing as the widow of a Dutch merchant. To gain admission to important persons' houses she took situations as a parlourmaid, a household duty which gave her access to the diningroom at meal times, when people are wont to speak freely. The houses to which sho gained admission in this way include those of two famous generals.' Sho was in a number of West End houses where people high in society and politics were visitors. She never remained in one situation more than a few weeks, and probably no suspicion would'have attached to her but for the fact that while serving in the house of one general she persistently inquired the English address and the whereabouts of the wifo of a British soldier who has made history on the Western front. ' These inquiries, coupled with tlio fact that on one occasion when she had paid too much attention to the general's liqueurs she boasted in tho servants' hall that she was. German-born, led to her fellow.-servante, informing their mistress. «