KAISER’S SPY WRITES A BOOK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19258, 20 December 1930, Page 31 (Supplement)

KAISER’S SPY WRITES A BOOK.

EXCITING DETAILS OF AN ANARCHIST HUNT.! (Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON, November 1. Spy stories, whether they are related from the pages of real life or culled from the imagination of novelists or pseudo-adveuturers, always possess a fascination of their own. “Steinhauer. the Kaiser’s Master Spy,” the personal record of the man himself is no exception to the rule, though the book which is published to-day, deals chiefly with events of long ago. One story which the writer claims has never been told before narrates exciting details of an anarchist hunt in the East End of London on the night prior to Queen Victoria’s funeral. Russian Anarchists. Steinhauer was responsible for the safety of the Kaiser. Three anarchists from Russia were waiting to assassinate that monarch during the funeral procession. Steinhauer was worried. With Superintendent Melville, of Scotland Yard, lie set out on a dark, wet night, to capture the anarchists. Before starting, both officers wrote letters “ to be opened in the event of death.” A woman informer was the guide to the anarchists’ den. She entered an upstairs room in a squalid quarter of London, the two officers waiting in the darkness below. Suddenly there was a shout, tremendous commotion, a scream of pain, apparently from the woman, and a hail of bullets descended to the hall. Chase Through Streets. Under fire, the officers dashed upstairs to the room, and, stretched out on the floor, were the woman informant and one of the anarchists, both badly wounded. Two other men were disappearing through the window. There was a chase through the streets: shots in the dark; but the anarchists escaped. On returning to the house the officers found that the injured people had been spirited away, presumably by the two anarchists who had given the police the slip. The woman’s body was later found in the Thames. | Queen Victoria’s funeral passed with- . out incident. Only King Edward and j two officers knew of the incidents of I the preceding night.