The Web : $b The Authorized History of the American Protective LeagueHough, Emerson
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The Web : $b The Authorized History of the American Protective League
Hough, Emerson
American Protective League; Propaganda, German; World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- United States
This accusation was that a clerk, S. W—— (the name is unpronounceable)
of Board No. 6 had told a registrant, G——, apparently of the same
nationality as himself, that for a certain sum he would keep him out of
the draft. He was to appear between noon and one o’clock on November
9 and make the payment. Operative says he told G——’s employers to pay
him the nine dollars due him, and he took the numbers of the bills. “I
told G—— to come with me to Local Board No. 6,” he says, “and see this
clerk whose name I did not know, and if he took the money to report to
me on the first floor of the building. In the meantime I informed one
of the members of our Delinquent Board of my intentions, with a view
to forestalling any later accusation that the money had been ‘planted’
by the clerk. In a little while G—— appeared and said he had paid the
money to the clerk, who demanded that he bring in some more money the
following Monday, as that was not enough. I then went to Local Board
No. 6 with G——, who pointed out this clerk as the one who had taken
the money. I took this clerk into a side room, accompanied by the
others. He acknowledged he had the money and that it had been given
him by G——. I told him to turn it over to a member of the Board of
Delinquents, and we verified the bills with the description and numbers
on the list already made out. I then took the suspect to the Special
Agent’s office, where we obtained a signed confession from him. He was
taken before the District Attorney and held for the grand jury. The
grand jury met November 11 at 2:00 P. M. and returned an indictment. On
Tuesday morning he was arraigned before the judge, pleaded guilty, and
was sentenced to Leavenworth penitentiary.”
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