The Kendrick Gazette

"PRINCE OF SPIES."
He Was a Young Alsatian In the Service of Napoleon.
To those who look with contempt upon spies and such as profit by their labors it comes as a surprise to learn that Napoleon, the greatest of all masters of war, owed to his excellent service of spies not a few of his most brilliant victories.
The man whom he picked out to organize this secret service was a regimental officer named Savary, who afterward became Duc de Rovigo. Savary, like his master, excelled in his judgment of men; he gathered from various corners of Europe an immense number of agents who served him with varying degrees of success, but with that curiously uniform fidelity which the service of Napoleon always seems to have bred.
Chief among them was a young Alsatian, Charles Louis Schulmeister, who earned the nickname of "Prince of Spies." Savary had come across him in the early days in a little Alsatian village where Schulmeister, the son of a local clergyman, was carrying on a gigantic and eminently successful system of smuggling. When Napoleon commissioned him to organize an army of spies Savary at once bethought him of his shrewd and audacious friend.
So young Schulmeister entered the French service in 1800, being then barely thirty. He showed considerable skill in watching the doings of the emigres in Germany. He it was who traced the unfortunate Duc d'Enghien to Ettenheim, where he was arrested. A certain General de Thumery was arrested at the same time: this was the result of a French official thinking that Schulmeister, who with his strong German accent would say "General Doumery," was speaking of the much wanted Dumouriez.—Westminster Review.