57 year old Carl Frederick Muller was a fluent linguist, able to speak English, Russian, German, Dutch and Flemish. In October of 1914 he was living in Antwerp in Holland and had German soldiers billeted in his house. He was recruited into the German Secret Service in late 1914.
-From the June 23, 2019 Facebook post of the Capital Punishment UK Facebook page. Click through to find out how Muller’s abortive attempt to put his gifts to use for spycraft saw him standing in front of a British firing squad by June 23, 1915. He was the second of 11 German spies to meet that fate during the Great War.
On this day..
- 1939: Toribio Martinez Cabrera
- 1865: Thomas King, heartstabber
- 1505: The Val Camonica witches
- 1784: Fifteen crooks hanged at Newgate
- 1886: John W. Kelliher lynched in Becker County, Minnesota
- 1977: Jerome Carrein, the second-last in France
- 1608: St. Thomas Garnet, protomartyr of Stonyhurst
- 1954: George Robertson, the last hanged in Edinburgh
- 1786: David Nelson, but not William Horbord
- 1989: Sean Patrick Flanagan, self-hating gay man
- 1592: Roger Ashton
- Unspecified Year: Justine Moritz, Frankenstein family servant
Antwerp of course is in Belgium, not in Holland.