Chapter X

The Core of the Conspiracy—Search of the _Arbeiter-Zeitung_
Office—The Captured Manuscript—Jealousies in the Police
Department—The Case Threatened with Failure—Stupidity at
the Central Office—Fischer Brought in—Rotten Detective
Work—The Arrest of Spies—His Egregious Vanity—An Anarchist
“Ladies’ Man”—Wine Suppers with the Actresses—Nina Van
Zandt’s Antecedents—Her Romantic Connection with the
Case—Fashionable Toilets—Did Spies Really Love Her?—His
Curious Conduct—The Proxy Marriage—The End of the
Romance—The Other Conspirators—Mrs. Parsons’ Origin—The
Bomb-Thrower in Custody—The Assassin Kicked Out of the Chief’s
Office—Schnaubelt and the Detectives—Suspicious Conduct at
Headquarters—Schnaubelt Ordered to Keep Away From the City
Hall—An Amazing Incident—A Friendly Tip to a Murderer—My
Impressions of the Schnaubelt Episode—Balthasar Rau and Mr.
Furthmann—Phantom Shackles in a Pullman—Experiments with
Dynamite—An Explosive Dangerous to Friend and Foe—Testing the
Bombs—Fielden and the Chief, 156