Produced by deaurider, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. [Illustration: © Harris & Ewing ATTORNEY-GENERAL THOMAS W. GREGORY Who directed the nation-wide work of arresting and prosecuting German plotters and of interning dangerous enemy aliens] FIGHTING GERMANY’S SPIES By FRENCH STROTHER [Illustration: (Publisher colophon)] _Illustrated_ GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY PAGE & COMPANY 1918 COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN _FOREWORD_ _“Fighting Germany’s Spies” is published to bring home to the public in a detailed and convincing manner the character of the German activities in the United States. By courtesy of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice the facts and documents of this narrative have been verified._ CONTENTS PAGE Foreword v Introduction xi CHAPTER I. The inside story of the passport frauds and the first glimpse of Werner Horn 3 II. The inside story of Werner Horn and the first glimpse of the ship bombs 37 III. Robert Fay and the ship bombs 60 IV. The inside story of the Captain of the _Eitel Friedrich_ 83 V. James J. F. Archibald and his pro-German activities 92 VI. A tale told in telegrams 109 VII. German codes and ciphers 134 VIII. The Tiger of Berlin meets the Wolf of Wall Street 158 IX. The American Protective League 192 X. The German-Hindu conspiracy 223 XI. Dr. Scheele, chemical spy 258 LIST OF HALF-TONE ILLUSTRATIONS Attorney-General Thomas W. Gregory _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE German agents who dealt in fraudulent passports 16 The official German plotters at Washington 32 Captain Thierichens and scenes on the _Eitel Friedrich_ 88 “When the water gets to the boilers” 112 Mr. A. Bruce Bielaski 152 Rintelen and his confederates 184