... spy system in Great Britain -Capture of seven spies in a fortnight - Janssen and Roos- Breeckow and Mrs , Wertheim - Fernando Buschman , violinist and spy - Augusto Alfredo Roggen - Ernst Waldemar Melin . TOWARDS the end of May , 1915 ...
Ken Porter, Stephen Wynn. CHAPTER 6. Augusto. Alfredo. Roggen. –. A. Spy. On 30 May 1915 Augusto Alfredo Roggen, a Uruguayan who was born in Montevideo in 1881, arrived at Tilbury docks on board the SS Batavia, which had sailed from ...
... Spies: Before the war Armgaard Graves had been a celebrated German spy, convicted in Edinburgh in 1912 for having ... 1915); Willem Johannes Roos (18-27 May 1915); Louise Emily Wertheim (28-30 May 1915); Augusto Alfredo Roggen (5-8 ...
... Augusto Alfredo Roggen arrived on the shores of Great Britain in May 1915. He travelled from the south up to ... spy on the Arrochar Torpedo range opened three years earlier. Roggen was tried at Middlesex Guildhall and convicted ...
... spying for the Germans; before this they had only suspected he was, but now they had actual evidence against him to prove it. He was arrested by police officers late in ... Augusto Alfredo Roggen. Whilst in Edinburgh he did what most.
The Stories of the Spies Executed in the Tower of London During the First World War Leonard Sellers. CHAPTER 6. Augusto. Alfredo. Roggen. Augusto Alfredo Roggen was described as a neat, dapper, dark little man, not at all like a German, ...
... 1915. His papers, newspapers and music were covered with minute figures in secret ink and on a telegraph form there ... Augusto Roggen had written to him from Scotland. Enquiries made in Holland showed that Grund was a German, an ...
... 1915 , " marching to the chair with a defiant air , refusing to have his eyes blindfolded . ” A firing squad of Scots Guards shot Roggen ... Augusto Alfredo Roggen was the first German spy from Latin America to die . He was a 34 - year ...
... Spy', in fact Augusto Alfredo Roggen or Roggin, a Uruguayan, tried with Melin, and shot on 17 September.71 And on 20 October the Secretary of the War Office announced that two prisoners, tried by general court martial on 28, 29, and 30 ...