Women Spy from Pevensey.

This article from the Eastbourne Gazette published on 11th November 1914 concerns an ex-Eastbourne resident who was convicted of spying in France.

She sounds like a very resourceful lady and I like the comment that when she lived in Pevensey she styled herself as a ‘baroness’, I would think that typical of many at that time.


“Women Spy Sentenced

In a letter dated November 8 and sent from Paris, H.J. Greenwood (a correspondent of the “Daily Express”) states that a women spy has been caught and sentenced to two years imprisonment and a fine of a thousand francs. The allegations made against her are that she dressed as a Red Cross nurse, met British wounded at the Railway Station (Gare du Nord), invited British officers to dine with her and endeavoured to wheedle military information out of them. Mr. Greenwall adds: “This woman’s card has been shown to me by an officer. Her real name is Juliette Zarkowska. She is the divorced wife of a German officer and is of British and Russian descent.”

It is stated that the women formerly resided in the Pevenesey District and styled herself as a baroness. She left Eastbourne before the war began.”