ECHOES OF THE WAR.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16046, 10 February 1920, Page 5

ECHOES OF THE WAR.

INTERESTING SPY STOGIES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received February 10, 9.50 a.m. LONDON, February 7. The Morning Post is publishing a series of spy stories. One details the doings of fat George Bieeckow, who posed as on American, and who was associated with Mrs Wertheim in an attempt to secure naval information. After his arrest, Breeckow, in his lonely prison cell, lost his nerve, and became fearful of what the woman would say of him. He wrote a voluminous confession, concluding with a nauseating appeal for mercy. He was in a state of semi-collapse at his trial, and broke down completely in the execution chamber. The inquest showed that he died of heart failure before the bullets struck him. The woman is now serving ten years’ imprisonment. Buschman, who was a fine violinist, was a spy of a more manly type, and posed as a traveller on behalf of the Dierks Company. He said he was selling picric acid. The prosecution pointed cut that Dierks were previously cigar merchants. When condemned, Buschman asked to be allowed to play Lis violin to .solace his final hours. He spent his last evening in the Tower of London playing. When led forth to execution, he picked up his violin and kissed it passionately, saying, “Good-bye! - I shan’t want you again.” N