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Title: Celebrated spies and famous mysteries of the great war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Barton, George, 1866-1940
Subjects: Spies World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, Page company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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en made against Madame Storch. She was in the unpleasant position of being under suspicion. Late in February, 1918, she obtained a French passport to go to Cuba by way of Key West. A companion obtained a passport at the same time. The Department of Justice was fully informed of all her movements, but there was no disposition to take any action until more was known of the woman and her associates and activities. But it was decided that she should not be permitted to leave this country— or, at least, not to get beyond the control of the authorities. She went to Washington and remained there for two days, and all the time the investigator was at her heels. After that she went to Key West, and at this point she was taken into custody. She was brought to New York and quartered in a hotel there with a companion pending a decision from Washington. An official of the Department of Justice said at the time that Madame Storch had been living in New York at the rate of $1000 a month. She gave various ex-
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Photograph from Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. MADAME DESPINA STORCH THE TURKISH BEAUTY 193 planations of her income, but none of them were satisfactory to the authorities. While in this country she received one payment of $3000 from an official of a foreign government. From the same source she had received three $1000 remittances, which she said were advances or loans from friends. The baron in the case was the son of parents whose loyalty to France was unquestioned. They were naturally disturbed at the notoriety achieved by their son, and insisted that he was in no way involved in anything that might have the shadow of disloyalty. Any suspicion which might have been aroused came from his devotion to Madame Storch. The United States Government accepted this explanation. The count concerned was a friend of the young clerk who, as the Marquis di Castillo, passed as a chum of King Alfonzo, of Spain, and on the strength of this connection tried to borrow $50,000,000 from J. P. Morgan & Co. Th

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