A SPY IN DISGUISE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 5, 22 August 1911, Page 8

A SPY IN DISGUISE.

AUSTRIAN COUNT’S ROMANCE. The arrest, of a now recruit for the United States army, who gave his name as Peters, has been followed by come strange and romantic disclosures.

“Peters” was recruited at Indianapolis, and it was not long before Ids behaviour persuaded the military authorities that he had joined the army with motives distinctly ulterior. Strict inquiries made as to “Peter’s ’ antecedents led to a remarkable statement being made by a young American lady.

] t appears that the lady met “Peters” on an ocean liner on the way to the States. He represented himself to be an Austrian nobleman, Count Windischgractz. They became engaged, and in the course of time the Count confided to the lady that his object in visitng Amerca was to obtain the secret of tlxo manufacture of the new American explosive, dunnito, which is supposed to he the most powerful chemical agent of destruction yet invented, and which is being used for loading shells for the United States forces.

The lady lias supplied the military authorities with an affidavit detailing her acquaintance with the Count, who, she says, came from Prague, and his subsequent confessions to her.