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ffSSIfSSM?!SS!SiSm BBSffB mmum' i&mj Presently, gpssips added that the Princess Wilhelm spent far too much time with M. Assonivitchi, the Rus sian military attache. The Russian military attache was suspected and detected in suspicious proximity to improvement plans for the coast defense monitors. The military attache resigned and Prince Wilhelm and his wife left court for a tour of Swedish naval stations. At one port a boy officer, smitten with the princess' beauty, showed her a secret collection of photographs of the huge incomplete fortress which, in the event of invasion, would be the final base for Swedish military opera tions. The lovely princess quietly carried off the pictures. The young officer confessed his in discretion to his chief and under orders asked that his snapshots be returned. "My dear boy," explained Marie of Russia. "I have not got your photo graphs they are already in Petrb grad." Naval commander and boy lieu tenant waited upon the minister of the fleet. His excellency consulted Prince Wilhelm. But both decided that the king (then Oscar) was too old and too ill to be told. Time passed. The old king died. Gustave V came to the throne. In September, 1913, Prince Wil helm, intent on training himself to become commander-in-chief of his brother's army, assembled in his study data of national importance. Suddenly a document of supreme military importance was discovered misplaced. Consternation over whelmed the royal brothers. Their small nephew, Wilhelm's only son, hastened to reassure them. He had watched his mother handling that precious paper. That night Prince Wilhelm con fessed all he knew to his brother the king. Next day the Prince and Princess Wilhelm left Stockholm for Berlin, the little prince remaining in the de serted home. In Berlin Wlihelm of Sweden began divorce preliminaries on the ground that their sympathies were incpm patable. Prince Wilhelm returned to Stock holm where he lives with his only child absorbed in the hurried altera tion of Sweden's fortresses and plans. Princess Wilhelm, now Princess Marie, went from Berlin to Paris. Later she returned to Berlin but a week before the war was declared she fled into Russia. The most dangerous spy in Europe had returned to her cousin and mas ter, the czar. HOLD NEGRO IN AX CRIMES St. Louis, Mo., March 22. Loving Mitchell, negro, arrested yesterday, charged with murder of Wm. F. Daw son, Mrs. Dawson and their daugh ter, Georgia, 13, at Monmouth, 111., on Sept. 30, 1911, one of "ax mur ders." which have sweDt five states. ' There have been thirty similar crimes since 1911 and all identical in nearly every detail. At time of crime at Monmouth police found, electric searchlight scratched with words, "Colorado Springs and Lovey." Mitchell denies knowledge of crime. o o HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGE Frank Adair, former groom for Ar thur Meeker of Lake Forest, was ar rested while keeping an appointment with Aagot Kailman, his former sweetheart, last night at Dearborn and Madison sts. Miss Kailman is a tablemaid employed by Thomas Brown, coffee merchant. Adair is being held on serious charges at the detective bureau. He says that he has not given up his in tention of marrying Aagot. o o ANNOUNCEMENTS Seymour Stedman will talk before Woman's party of Chicago at Hamil ton hall, 4737 Broadway, tonight. ' Mfca4autM'JJWrK.;T,i jIJBn.K I IJ I lilMi " -j-'f -, jg1: