So Bulgaria punishes spies.
The woman was Mine. Helena
Kovoff, former wife of Lieut.
Kovoff, a hero of Kirk Kilisse.
Mmei Kovoff became a spy and a
traitor in a mad effort to avenge
herself upon the man who had
casther off. Love, wealth and
happiness were her's until a" fe(r
months ago. Her mother 3k a
rich widow.
Her hUsband was" a dashing,
handsome army'officeiv They
lived in a tieauiiful home on the
main street of Sofia, -a residence
owned by the young, woman.
Both were social favorites and
often entertained the small group
of select society folks of the capi
tal. Then the other Wonian ap
peared a Russian woman of
wonderful alluring "beauty. Ru
mors came to Mme. Kavoff's ears.
The slighted wife tried to bring
her recreant husband back to her,
through jealousy.' Covertly at
first, then openly, she flirted with
an attache of a foreign legation
in Sofia.
Doors that still opened to her
husband, despite his notorious in
fatuation for the Russian, closed
to the young wife when gossip
said she was too interested in the
attache.
Her husband appeared at theif
home one evening while his wife's
friend was there and, although
the mother was in the room -with
the young cotiple, he bitterly ac
cused his rwife of unfaithfulness
and left her.
Suit for divorce was immediate
y brought by Lieut .Kovoff, and
strangely enough, was decided in
his favor. Then he openly wooed &
tire Russian.' For weeks the cast- u
off, misunderstood wife secluded
herself.
Then came the war againstfie j
Turk. Lieut Kovoff went gladly
to the -front- His divorced wife
emerged from her .shelter and t
seemingly renewed her interest
In life. But she had decided to
take a horrible revenge on her
former husband) and on the coun
try, her native land, that had
'crushed her while cheering her
exr-husband. - -
. She "had decided to betray
both j to give to her husband's and
her country's enemies die mili
tary secrets confided' to. Jier dur
ing the days wheh She was sfilt"a
happy wife and met the leadihg
military men of Bulgaria.
One day Mme. Kovoff told a
woman friend that she was going fr
to Vienna. This friend saw her
at the railway station, getting on
iraki for Constantinople. She
made ome Remarks which were T
reported to the police, and the
young woman was watched when
she returned. It wa& found that
she was in cqrnmunjcation with r
two Macedonians, also under sus
picion. All were arrested. -
' Proofsit is s"aid, were found iri lt
her house of her complicity withr .
s,pies, and that not only had she '
dfsctesed what she already knew,-
to Turkish officials, but had
Agreed to keep them posted as to
future events and plans, .
At the court-martial She refus
ed to-talk, beyond exclaiming iH
dramatic fashion: ,AI