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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
The learned professor, however, having his suspicions aroused by the
fact that the door kept opening and would not stay shut as it ought to
have done, came to the door, poked his head out and saw the operatives
sitting on the porch. One operative sat there with a camera in his lap
and a flash gun in his right hand, intending to make pictures of the
picture maker himself, so that evidence of the reprehensible nature of
his own pictures might be discovered. The professor, however, sprang
back into the room and presently came out armed with a gun and a
bayonet. The operatives at once fell off the back of the porch. Lunging
at the first man, the professor missed; but he caught the second
operative with the bayonet in the wrist and ripped up his forearm. The
men closed in upon him and there was a warm fight for quite a while.
Details are not desirable and need not be given. It is sufficient to
say that the nature of the photographs was disclosed and details turned
in to the proper quarters. The anthropological German professor later
was arrested and turned over to the Department of Justice. At last
accounts he was in jail at Washington awaiting trial. Regarding his
performance, it is only fair to say that his anthropological tendencies
seemed to run true to German scientific form.
_The A. P. L. in Sausalito_
Not so far from San Francisco by way of the crow’s flight is the Marin
County Division of the A. P. L. at Sausalito. This division also had a
case of mysterious light flashes—from Belvidere Island. Signals came
from several different directions and several different sources, but
no one could ever be located as receiving them. Across the bay from
Belvidere is Angel Island, a large internment camp, and in either
direction lies a neighborhood which is very pro-German. There might
have been signals, but no one seemed to be able to trace the code or
get anything intelligible. Investigation of this thing lasted for over
a year, and finally the division concluded it was the action of someone
trying to intimidate the residents of that vicinity. It was not run
down.
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