Hen Hatches Turtle Brood.
Thomas Warren, a fox hunter, of Winsted, Conn., who recently found a nest of turtles’ eggs in a field, placed them under a setting hen as an experiment. Seven of the eggs hatched. The hen’s unusual offspring still nest among the feathers.
Gave Three Sons to France
Three of the four sons of Charles Legrand, who entered the army, have been killed in action.
M. Legrand, who was formerly president of the chamber of commerce and was active in the project for[{58}] exchanges of commercial students between Harvard University and the French Commercial University, has been notified that the third of his sons had been killed.
Use Name of Spy to Spy on Germans.
Anton Kuepferle, the American citizen of German birth who is held for trial in London on a charge of supplying Germany with information concerning the movements of English troops and ships, is said to have been the means of affording English detectives much inside information concerning the workings of the German spy system, with headquarters in Holland.
Kuepferle’s arrest was kept a secret for nearly two months. Meantime it is reported that Scotland Yard men were using the prisoner’s name as a means of communicating with German officials in Holland. In Kuepferle’s baggage, sheets of paper used for invisible ink were found. Imitating Kuepferle’s handwriting, the detectives were said to have written letters to German spy chiefs, between the lines of which they traced in invisible ink all sorts of questions asking further instructions. A rapid-fire correspondence is reported to have continued for many weeks.
The prisoner is charged with having visited many English and Irish ports to investigate shipping and report to Germany the movements of transports. Dublin, Liverpool, and Belfast are said to be centers where he was active. His capture took place the day following the declaration of the German submarine blockade, February 18th.
New Record Made by Wireless Phone.