once. I waited for him in a tavern; when he got back he had the countersignature 

Herr Vogt.— XII. Appendices 311 

and he next went to the Lord Mayor to swear the oath. But the plan fell through 
as the Lord Mayor wanted further guarantees and Fleury could not give them—so 
the oath remained unsworn.... Late in the evening I saw M. de Fleury again, and 
for the last time. That very day he had been unpleasantly surprised to read Herr 
Stieber’s declaration concerning him in the Kélnische Zeitung. ‘But I know that 
Stieber could not have acted differently, otherwise he would have had to 
compromise himself,’ M. de Fleury said very truly by way of consoling himself.... 
‘There will be a great explosion in Berlin if the Cologne prisoners are convicted, M. de Fleury 
said to me at one of our last meetings”. 

Fleury’s last meetings with Hirsch took place at the end of October 
1852. Hirsch’s confessions are dated the end of November 1852; 
and at the end of March 1853 came the “explosion in Berlin” (the 
Ladendorf conspiracy).***" 

* The reader will be interested to see the testimonials that Stieber himself gave his 
two accomplices Fleury-Krause and Hirsch. He writes of the first in the Black Book,244 
II, p. 69: 

“No. 345. Krause, Carl Friedrich August, from Dresden. He is the son of Friedrich 
August Krause, a farmer executed for his part in the murder of Countess Schonberg 
in Dresden in 1834, and afterwards” (after his execution?) “a corn-dealer, and of his 
widow Johanna Rosine née Gdllnitz, who is still living. Carl Friedrich was born on 
January 9, 1824, in the vineyard houses at Coswig near Dresden. From October 1, 
1832, he went to the charity school in Dresden; in 1836 he was admitted to the 
orphanage in Antonstadt, Dresden, and in 1840 he was confirmed. He was then 
apprenticed to Herr Gruhle, a Dresden merchant, but in the following year he was 
arrested and detained by the Dresden Municipal Court for repeated theft. However, the 
period of detention was counted towards his sentence and he was released. After this 
he lived with his mother without taking a job, but in March 1842 he was arrested again 
for breaking and entering and this time he was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. On 
October 23, 1846, he came out of gaol and returned to Dresden and began to associate 
with the most notorious thieves. Then, the Rehabilitation Society took him up and found 
him a job in a cigar factory and he remained in this job without interruption or any 
further misdemeanour until March 1848. But after that date he gave in to his idleness 
again and began to frequent political societies” (as a government spy; see above his 
admission to Hirsch in London). “Early in 1849 he became a salesman of the Dresdner 
Zeitung edited by the republican literateur E. L. Wittig who is now in America but 
who at that time was in Dresden. In May 1849 he took part in the Dresden uprising 
and became commandant of the barricade in the Sophienstrasse. He fled to Baden 
after the uprising was quelled and there he was empowered by the provisional! 
government of Baden (the decrees of June 10 and 23, 1849) to raise a Landsturm and 
requisition supplies for the insurgents. He was taken prisoner by Prussian soldiers but 
on October 8, 1849, he escaped from Rastatt.’’ (Just as, late; on, Cherval “escaped” 
from Paris. But now comes the part of the bouquet which has the authentic police 
aroma-——it should be borne in mind that this was printed two vears after the Cologne 
Trial.) “According to a report in the Berlin Publizist. No. 39 of May 15, 1853, taken 
from a book printed in New York with the title Die Opfer der Spionage* by Wilhelm 
Hirsch, a Hamburg shop-assistant” (QO Stieber, you foreboding angel!);. “Krause 

* Die Opfer der Moucharderie, Rechtfertigungsschrift von Wilhelm Hirsch.— Ed. 
» See this volume, p. 7].— Ed.