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SEQUEL CROWING OUT OF MEANS
CASE AT CONCORD
Concord, N. C ., April 27.-A
sequel to tlio famous ease grow
ing out of tlii lulling of Mrs.
Maud A. Kin,', widow of the late
.James (!. King, Chicago million
aire, near hero last August
and the subsequent notable trial
last December o f Gaston It.
Means, her financial agent, who
was acquitted of the charge of
having murdered In; r, a sensa
tion was sprung here today when
it developed that a stato warrant
had heel) issued hy .1 ustie.' of tho
Peace C. A. 1'itts, for the arrest
of C. 15. Amoroso, who was prom
inently identified with the devel
opment of 1 1 10 cast! against Means
last fall. Ambrose is charge 1
with misrepresenting himself as
being in the service of tie1 1'nited
States Department of .J us tire
during the months of August,
September anil, October, I'M".
It is understood that the warrant
waf issued at the instance of
parties representing Means.
I n connection with the action
against Ambrose, it developed
that parti.- close to Means are
advancing the theory that Mrs.
King was killed by a German
spy, who is alleged to have si) ad
owed Means during several weeks
prior to the death of Mrs. King,
and it Is asserted that a warrant
will be isued during the coming
week for a "mysterious" Ger
"man who was in Concord fur sev
eral weeks prior to the killing of
Mrs. King and visited Misdieiui
Springs, tho scone of the trage
dy, a day or two prior to her
death. From th" sa,:ie source
came the statement today that
the bullet which killed Mrs. King
is now believed, on Ibe strength
of investigations ma h- since the
Means trial, to Invo Is-en intend
ed for (i.iston Means, the only
H'rson with the woman at the
time she was shot.
Another interesting develop
ment was the filing of the will of
the I a to Mrs. King with the clerk
of the court of C.ijurr J county.
Mr. Mary C. Mclvin, sister ol
the deceased, is named as ad
ininistratrix and she and her
mother, Mrs. Anna Kobinson.
now at 'Jacksonville, Florida, ami
two brothers. William and Paul
Kobinson, are named as bene!!
ciarios,
in connection with the action
against Ambrose, sulqxcnaos
h ive Is-eii issued for Solomon A.
Smith, Arthur llourte-y and
William S. Miller, s.vrotiry of
the Northern Trust Company i f
Chicago; M i s. U ibinsoo and the
Kobinsolt brothels
Statements fior.i author, -,ti t
sources today were Li the ciVd
thai agents of the D'pai tinent of
Justice were in Charlotte al tin
lecent term td the Federal lbs
tricl court conferring with l)is
triit Attorney W. C. Hammer
and other olbcials as i the activ
ities; of Ainhrose in connection
w i tit the Means case.
The warrant was issued by
State authorities on the ground
thai an alleged fraud lias been
hi eiualc 1 against the Stab'.
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AN ALLEGED DANGEROUS WOMAN
SPY ARRESTED
Now Vork, April 27. Madame
Marie K, do Victorica, believed
by ofllcers of the department of
justice to bo one of the most act
ive of Germany'. agents in this
country for the last 15 months,
was arrested at a fashionable
l-rfjng Island hotel today and
brought to this city as a danger
ous enemy alien.
Madame tie Victorica wa.s in a
highly nervous condition and was
sent to the prison ward at Belle
vue hospital. Miss Margaret
Sullivan, her maid, was held as a
material w itness.
Madame do Victorica, w ho also
has been known as Madame do
Vussiere, is Haid to have come to
the United States, through Nor
way. January JI, 1017, as a pas
senger on the steamship Iter
geiisfjord. She told Captain Koger M.
Hull, who questioned her, that
she was born in I'uenos Aires.
Iler father, she said, w as at one
time a captain in the Ccrmaii
army, but bad been naturalized
as a citizen of the Argentine re
public. Madame do Vicioriea, who is
111! years old, is a handsome wo
man of the German tyH?. She
always is fashionably gowned
and wears considerable jewelry.
She is said to be highly educat
ed, having taken a course at Hei
delburgand studied political ee
or.omy at Zurich as well as at
licrhn.
Her first husband is said to
have, been a Chilean who died
sixiii after their marriage. In
'.'1 1, she maraied Jose do Vic-
oiica at Hamburg, Germany.
She described do Virtorira as "a
or tor in chemistry and philoso-
hy." Her husband remained
with her only three or four
months, she declared, and then
lisapp'-ared. She explained l.r
oesem e in this country by say
ing she came here to look for him
Federal authorities believe her
real mission in the Fnited States
was to spread German propa
ganda among the Irish. She is
eiK)i ted to have been the c hief
ode to a lieutenant commander
of the German navy who reached
ioi e in Prcember, l'.'li'i, and who
as been working among Sinn
'ein sympathizers, trying to get
them to enlist in the Hritish navy
in order to plant liouibs on war
ships. The German naval ollicer dis
appeared a few il.iv.s sigo w hen ho
liseoveied that agents of the do.
ai tmeiiiof justice were trailing
bun. 'I ho bombs ho wanted
I n od on I trittsb war ships are
suipos(sI u have Imou similar to
those Franz von Kintelen and his
.issociates were convicted for
lacingon merchant ships.
Madame do Victoria, govern
ment agents s.iid, is known to
have received money from this
man and is reported to hao spent
lii.tXMt since she arrivt d in the
Fnited States. She has admitt
ed receiving funds from Iho lieu
tenant commander, it is whirled.
but asserts it wan money she
placed in his hands for safekeep
ing before leaving Germany.
Knlistmg the supjHirt of Irish
radical newspaper is l'ln-.ed to
have been one of her objects in
this country.
Madame do Vieloiica, who
stopH'd at vaiious fashionable
hotels in this city, is said to have
been acquainted with Madame
Char lotto Flizabetli Nix, who is
awaiting deportation because of
her alleged pro German Activi
ties, and with Madame do Spina
Davidovitch S torch, the young
Turkish woman who, arrested
with Madame Nix, died later at
F-di.s Island. Madame Victor
ca, wbiln being questioned, is
quoted an describing Madame
Nix as a personal friend of the
kaiser.
It is said that a room wa hired
in Brooklyn for the maid, Mar
garet t Sullivan, w!w, although
never occupying it, called there
at regular intervals for mail. A
recent letter, addressed to the
maid, Is said to have contained an
enciohurc from Morlin for her
mistress.
AIRPLANE VIEW OF AMIENS, TOWARD WHICH
THE GERMANS ARE
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COMPLETE COMPANIES SIMPLY WITH
ERED BRITISH LIGHT TANKS
British Headquarters, April
2li. Around K'enimel itself the
German losses were undoubtedly
very heavy. The .French fur
nished the inachii'o guns and
slaughtered the Germans coin
ing in great numbers. Th-' price
the garrison exact' d for posses
sion of the bill must have been
high in th' course of se-eii or
eight hours .luring which tin
Germans were fen nig tbi ir way
up the slopes. Scottish troops,
the Black U'ab h, an.. r.g their,
besides taking good numbers .f
prisoners, indicted extremely
heavy casualties espoi ially '1 :4
point where the Germans for a
long time were exposed to ma
chine gun lire while struggling
to find their way through the
wire. Iist evening some of our
troops which came from support
ing Kommcl village said they
cou'd not stay because of the
heavy machine gutt tiro from the
north. This has .stepped tins
morning, however, an I we again
have DUshed out. est ! .nng
pu
and holding positions on
the j
front lino made .tetcrd.i lUsljthii.g ..Ue t .vu bitta.i!!s of the
north of Keminel vi.iage. The j ei.eu y d-'daie tli at they ki'e'd a
Ciormans, we UnoA, us.-d beside, I
the Alpine corps thro' ,in i-kais !
already m. nlioi..-d ta f-.m ei .1.-' tint th -yd: I g.-l we"! i '.to hr;:
patches, the lllh Bavarian, the 1 numbers td the . i.cniy, both w ith
UTlnand the i.ewly l'ioJghtr".h. ! guns an I hy ru-n-ing them .b.au
Ills evident, how roughly they 'and crushing them. Where the
were handled when after having I enemy was massed the tanks did
pushed through the line, they
were unable to gel on. but were
easily held b.v our supporting
battalions and prisoners were 1 1
keiiuudwehavosii.ee been ahle
to push them hack.
Further details show that in
the southern lighting at Villns
Mrotonnoau our counter attack
was completely successful today
and our bee is practically where
it was before the attack. 'List
evening the dennans were sti.l
holding out in the rear and ad
vanced jxisiliuns along the rail
way and elsewhere. This morn
ing there are only two such nests.
one on the railway and one fur
ther south, which were not clean
ed out. These have been smoked
out today.
The Australians are of the
opinion that they killed more Gor
man than ever before in the
lighting in Folygon wood and all
accounts confirm this. After
the Germans were in Villcrs lire
tonneaux we threw gas shells in
the village and later w hen w e nt
tacked at night wo look a number
of prisoners in closed dugouts
and cellars who did not know un
til taken that the counter attack
was In progress. Some otiieors
and prisoners complain bitterly
of the hardships of recent light
ing and lack of rations. They
curso the German higher com
mar. 1 freely for expfcting the
men to do in.jii' than flesh ami
blood can Ma-.d. Tb -y t.il'i of
the war comicg to an i i.d Ibis
sUinuo-r, but ilo ii"t believe the
(Jericans can force a unlit. oy de
cision. Fnd ! br.ue w iods
tln-re is evident il pi ess'ioii and
misgiving.
I gave an acfo"jit i f the opera
tio;sof Geili;m I tuU and told
how o.".e knocked eti'. one of our
X.v is Another Gorman tank
also broke dowe. b':t the enemy
W .is able t j get
!i av. ay.
a!-o recovered a t o l, .lis.ilia d by
the e:;e:::y. Ti.'.s ( ot::ir;iied that
tin- German t.e;ks are larger
than ours with turrets and nlv(
protected by caterpillar treads.
Th" tanks bear i..ime. ,ind signs.
On those se'ii lv our men one
was called the Cyclops, another
h.-.uing the syii.'l if 'If skull
and crossb.ries.
Further cvidem e gisvs to show
that the work of onr light tanks
is even more e:!ec'ive than re
Mrtcd. Prisoners say thai w hole
'.) panies Aero w ithered by
! l!.e.i The Ve. of ..lie light
t ink alone w hit b into s'.ine
tbousan.l (.-rmatis. ny ai
I .v.ir.ccs, th'-to i no question
gn at execution.
F.lsewhero the front is fairly
quii't. At Aveluy viMn ainl V. nr
curt th" Get mans tried two
inn. or attacks which were suc
cessfully crushed by ntlo and
: a. lime gun lire.
FIFTY AMERICAN TR00P3 RETURN
An Atlantic I'o. t. April
Fifty American soUtiers, most ol
whom have b en wounded or
gascl, b ive been brought to this
port from Franco by order of
President Wilson to take put in
the Liberty loan c impaign, ac
cording t o n n announcement
made hy the nolit u v authorities
hero today.
The pally, Couipl isiug enlisted
men representing all blanches
of the army and commanded by
Kegiuieutal t'obr Seigeant John
J. HeiTei nan, arrived h"ro on a
transput last night. Sixteen
will serve as loan spe 1'aers in the
New York feder.il reserve dis
tricl and the others will be scut
to vai ious parts of the country.
Six of the men wear French
war crosses awarded fur galant
ry in action and all wear the gold
"V" fir foreign service. Many
show by insignia on their right
arms that they have boon wound
el. Americans go into battle
cheering and waving their hats,
said HelTernan, in describingcon-
DIRECTING THEIR DRIVE
ATTACK UPON AMERICANS IS
PROMPTLY Rf PULSED.
With the Ameiican Army in
France, April The enemy
laid ilo.vu a heavy barrage in
front of the Aineri''an trenches
in the Tool sr. t or :it 15 o'rlock
Ibis morning, the bombardment
lasting an hour.
After an interval of silence, ho
reM',ted the performance at j
o'clock and luifan hour later the
German infantry started for tlx
American lines. So intense was
the American co'inler attack that
the enemy was repulsed without
getting close enough to bo en
gaged by the American infantry.
Toe Germans have been strip
pn:g the Dishes of dead French
soldiers in other sectors and,
wearing these collies, havecomi
over at the jsnnt where th.
French and Ahum io.m linos j mi.
This method of attack on the
Amei icaus ul Apiemont forest
t wo weeks ago. i hi that occasion
they s, oke French nnd said they
had come to assist the Americans,
but the ruse w as discovered and
tbeV were driven oil.
ilition
et tin' Franco American
front
"'The idea Was to put us on
'quiet sc. tor when we Went over
tli st," bo s.nd, "out Ih tt sector
did not remain min i long with
the American in it. They be
g.ui lighting the lirt minute they
could and they have been lighting
over since
We've got. i line lot of boys
bor There," In; c o n t i n u e d
"Charley Ta f t. ex President
Talt's son, is one of them
have seen linn under the hardest
conditions, acting like the lea
man ho is."
"On.! day an order was given
that every until in the, vicinity
bad to have a pass," he said, add
ing thai "the last German pris
oners 1 saw in France were men
who were captured from an air
plane."
"The A me i icans had always
said that when they got the
bodies, they would give them
bad treatment," he added, "but
as a matter of fact, w herever we
captured Germans, we Irealed
tlieui with the greatest kindness
We even stole 'chow' to feed them
and gave Iheui tobacco and the
besi of everything we had.
"The otiieors we captured w ere
always bull headed and would
nut give information, the German
privates were blck of war and
told us that they wished they
weren't in it. They look for It to
end in revolution in Germany
after America pets into the war,
but they don't believe wo are in
it yet
FORMER WILMINCTON MAN KILLS
WIFE, IS REPORT
Wilmington, N. C, April '2.
legrapbie advices to Mayor
Moore, of Wilmington, today that
Jliarles K. Scherer, former gro-
rand large real i stato owner
f this city, had killed his wife in
'ittsburg, I'a., to which city he
moved a few months ago, has re
vived interest in the mysterious
tilling of Neal Walton, chauffeur
'or Lyman II. Uelano, a vice ores-
lent of the Atlantic Coast Lino
ailroad company, in the out-
kirts of Wilmington a year ago
ist month.
Walton was shot to death by an
unknown person while in coin
pany with one of the maids in
the LeLar.o household. Scherer
was arrested here charged w ith
the crime but was discharged,
though the case has been held
before the grand jury as unfin
ished business.
Scherer's w ife had previously
asked that her husband bo put
under bond alxiut the time of the
killing but later withdrew the
charge and information about the
gun which subsequently w :i s
found in the neighborhood of the
tragedy. The case was one of
the sensations in local criminal
dstory. Largo rewards h a v e
been offered oftlcially and. pri
vately for the arrest of the jer-
cttator of the Walton murder.
S0LDILR HELD ON SHOOTING CHARGE
Norfolk, Va., April '27. It dc-
eloped today that Private Felix
Matulajsis of the l-th Fnited
States Infantry, doing guard
duty at tin' army base at So-
well's point, Is being held by the
military authorities to face court
martial on the charge of shooting
and fatally wounding Sarah
Washington, a twelve year old
colore.! girl, at Titustow n. a ne
gro settlement about six miles
from Norfolk.
Although the shooting incurr
ed on April P', no roort of the
occurrence reached the county
authorities until last Wednesday
when the girl died and an inquest
the following day iloveloH'd that
oath was duo to a gun shol
wound. A request of the civil
luthorities that Matulajsis be
turned over to them for trial, do
velolM-d that the soldier was be
ing held for court martial, charg
ed with manslaughter, as ho was
on guard duty at the time of the
shooting. According to the orti-
ers of the man's company, Mat
ulajsis claimed thai the shooting
was an accident. He declared
that in the dusk of the evening a
negro titan, accompanied by the
girl attempted to pass the dead
lino of the barred zone into gov-
cinmenl properly, and that lie
tan when ha'leJ. Matulajsis op
eu.'il lire, but missed the man
and hit the girl.
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NOWHERE HAVE THE GERMANS
IIEEN AIILJ: TO MAKE FURTHER
DENT IN ALLIED LINK
The entire allied line in Franco
and Flanders still stands firmly.
Nowhere have the Germans been
able to make a further dent in it.
Hard fighting lias been in pro
gress on the Y)res sector aroond
V'oormt".eel(! and to the south at
Tjocre. Moth places have several
times changed hands, but at last
reports Voormczoloo had been
recaptured by the Hritish, but
the Germans had obtained an
other foothold in Iicre.
Voormezelee was taken by the
Germans Saturday, but the Hrit
ish in it night attack won it hack
and since have held it, inflicting
heavy casualties on the Germans
in renewed ellorts to take the
place.
The Germans have tried at sev
eral points along the front lick!
by the French to pierce th.j line,
but every where they have been
repulsed, notably in the St.
Mihiel and Luneville sectors,
where roeontly'Atuerican troops
were stationed. Whether tin
Americans again came into com
bat with the enemy was not
vouchsafed by the Frem h nUioial
communication.
Aside from these nttMeks and a
few unimportant operations be
tween the Hritish and the Ger
mans, artillery duels have pre
dominated. The big guns of the
French and tin: Germans have
been carrying out nightly recip
rocal bombardments north of the
Vvre river and in the region be
tween lissigny and Noyon.
As a whole lb. to is no iii.it.-ri.it
change in the situation along the
entire I rout over licit ol .ilur-
lay, and it is in a ev ident that the
Genu. His are prepared for Iho
present to resume the offensive,
which has cost them so dearly in
men killed, wuunded or made
prisoner.
l.'ejHMts coining ov way of
indoii are to the eileet that in
Germany there is mm h pertur
bation over tin inability id Iho
Teutons to pierce the allied line
ind nervousness ami .lepressioti
over tin losses the ( lermans have
suffered.
The oH'iatioiis in the (Lilian
theater continue of a minor char
actor, consisting of small patrol
encounters ami artillery duels of
more or less intensity 01 various
sectors.
Likewise in Macedonia compar
ative iiuiet prevails, aithough
there has been considerable shell
ing of opHsing Hsitinus by the
artilleries nnd aerial bombing
craft. Near VetreniU the Ser
bians carried out a successful at
tack against the llulgarians and
annihilated the section they held.
Nothing new has come through
either in the way of continuation
or denial of the reports in circu
lation Saturday that u counter
revolution had broken out in Pe-
trograd and thai Grand Duke
Alexis Nikolaieviudi had been
proclaimed emieror of (Jussia
Charlotte Observer. CJ
With the Hritish Army in
Fiance, April 'J. Hard lighting
continued about Ixxre and Voore
uu'zeele, bul elsewhere thus far
Uslay has Ih'Oii a day of rest for
the ir.fautry as a whole. The
baltlo lor IxK'rc and Vooremo
zeelo has been most desperate.
Both places have changed hands
several times in the past J I hours
and at the latest reports it was
an "even break," for the Hritish
were la po-session of Voore
mezeele, while tho enemy seems
to have succeeded early In tho
day ia getling a foothold In Locro
agaiu.
An engagement north of tho
Yprcs Comines canal was in pro
gress throughout most of the
night with the; Hritish holding
doggedly and infiicting heavy
losses on the attacking troops.
The German casualties have been
very evcre.
Washington, April 'Jr. The
following named Tar Heels have
qualified for second lieutenants:
Camp Doniphan, George Foiling
Wall, Hillsboroiand CainpMeado,
Otis U Sims, Townvillo.