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after he had " stolen 2 suits of clothing- from tailor shop of Max Weiss, 345 So. Dearborn .st. A:IiOVE STORY INVOLVING GERMANY'S SECRETS ' Philadelphia, May 6. Aystory of Jove and the underground sec rets of European diplomacy, of hate and a soman's vengeance, is being unfolded before United States Commissioner Edmunds in this, the Quaker City. The entire machinery of the German ambassador's secret ser vice, the whole great German empire, is arrayed against Marie Purtz, a 20-year-old girl of Sax onyj in an effort to have her ex tradited from this country. The charges against this 20 year" old girl are: -Stealing valuable papers of state; stealing $70,000 in gold and securities J being a spy; arxi the murder of Carl Gutlieb, an innkeeper of Saxony. Marie Purtz is a native of the little town of Ungatheim, Rup pertsguen, Saxony. Carl Gutlieb was the principal ' innkeeper of Ungatheim, and 4an (jrutheim- was the father of a spn just Marie's age. The innkeeper's son fell in love , with Marie, and Maria fell m love with him. They decided to get married. But when the boy and the girl vjent to the inkeeper-and told him of theirjove and their plans, Carl Gutlieb flew into a great rage. Marie Purtz was the daughter of peasant parents, he cried, and not the fit wife for the son of the principal innkeeper, oi Ungat heim. And he broke up the ro mance. Soon after this, according- to the German government's plea for the extradition of Marie Purtz high officials of the German gov ernment visited Ungatheim, and stayed at the inn of Gutleib. These officials carried with them papers of the greatest im--porfance t othe government. Conspirators against the gov ernment also visited Ungatheim, having in mind the, stealing of these papers. The conspirators failed in their first attempt but succeeded in their second through Marie Purtz, the girl whom Carl Gut- Neib had scorned. The German government says the conspirators played upon the anger of the girl against the man who had denied her the man, she loved, and induced lie to enter the inn at night, and stal the papers. Also, the German government says, GutleibiK discovered, her in the midst, of the 'theft, and she killed him: Then she fled from Ungatheim. The agents of the German gov ernment traced Marie Purtz to this country, and followed her from city to city for many months. She at last was caught hear Pittsburgh. The German government has not disclosed the nature of. the papers it says that Marie Purtz stole; but .they must have been very important The German empire does not spend hundreds jippiilwiareJimMiiffly ouru,a l-a.. u i,--., dr-j MMaHIMMMMMMHaHHIilHa aaiiMiftflittaiflMi