Espionage In Vienna.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 4, 1913:
Officer Arrested and Russian Attache Involved.
    VIENNA, April 24.— The sudden departure for St. Petersburg of Col. Michael Zankievitch, the Russian military attaché here, is said to be connected with the case of an officer of the Austrian army, who has been arrested on a charge of spying.
    At the sitting of the Landtag this week the Socialist members interpellated the Government on this subject, and the entire facts then came out. The officer mentioned above is a Serb named Zedomyl Jandric, a native of Bosnia, who occupied a lodging with his brother, Alexander, in Vienna. As the brothers spent large amounts of money, the police became suspicious, and they were watched.
    It was discovered that the Russian military attaché was frequently in their apartments, and further investigation revealed the fact that First Lieut. Jandric had found means to gain the confidence of the son of the Chief of General Staff, Baron Conrad, and through his influence was employed on special services. It appears that the preparation of certain military plans and projects was confided to him, and that the first lieutenant and his brother, who posed as an artist, sold copies of these papers to St. Petersburg and Paris.
    The evening edition of The Zeit adds: "Col. Zankievitch took a more prominent part in this affair than is permissible even for a military attaché, whereupon orders were issued from a competent quarter which shattered the social position of the colonel."