The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-28
The Enemy of all the World

his vat and went on elecro-platinS
But afterwards in prison he remem-
bered the incident, and like flash
there came into his mind the full
significance of it. He saw in it the
silent, secret weapon with which to
revenge himself on the world. His
great discovery, which died with
him, was control over the direction
and scope of the electric discharge.
At the time, this was the unsolved
problem of wireless telegraphy-as
it still is today-but Emil Gluck,
in his prison cell, mastered it. And
when he was released he applied it.
1t was fairly simple, giving the
directing power into the powder mag
azines of a fort, a battleship, or a
revolver. And not alone could he
thus explode powder at a distance,
but he could !Sr,to oonflagrat!ons
The Great Chelsea Fire was started
by him-Quite by accident, however,
as he stated in his confession, add.
ing that he had never had any reas
on to regret it,
1t was Emil Gluck that caused the
terrible German-American War, with
the loss of 100000 lives and the con
sumption of almost incalculable treas
ure. II will be remembered that in
1929, because of the Pickard incident
strained relations existed between
the TWO countries. Germany, though
agerieved, was not anxious for war,
and, as peace-token, sent the crown
| prince and seven battleships on Il
| friendly visit to the United States.
On the night of February Is, the
seven warships lay at anchor in the
Hudson opposite New York City.
And on that night, Emil Gluck,
alone, with all his apparatus on
board, was out in launch This
launch, it was afterwards proved,
was bought by him from the Ross
Turner Company, while much of the
apparatus he used that night had been
purchased from the Columbia Elec-
| trio Works. But this was MOI known
at the time. All that was known
was that the seven battleships blew
up, one after another, at regular
four-minute intervals. Ninety per
cent of the crews and officers, along
with the crown prince, persisted
Many years before the American
battleship Maine was blown up in
| the harbor of Havana, and war with
Spain had Immediately followed
though there had always existed a
reasonable doubt as to whether ex-
! plosiCn was due to conspiracy or
accident. But accident could not ex-
! plain the blowing up of the seven
Dattleships on the Hudson at four
minute intervals. Bermany believed
that it had been done by subma.
rine, and Immediately declared war.
1t was six months after Gluck S con-
fession, that she returned the Philip
pines and Hawaii to the United
States.
in the meanwhile Emil jiluck. NAL
evolent wizard and arch-hater, trav
eled his whirlwnd path of destruc-
ton. He left no traces. Scientific
ally thorough, he always cleaned up
after himself. His method was to
rent room or house, and secretly
to install his apparatus-which ap.
paratus, by the way, he so perfected
and simplified that it occupied little
space. After he had ACCOMPLISHED his
purpose, he carefully removed the
apparatus. He bade fair to live out
long life of horrible crime.
The epidemic of the shooting OF
New York City policemen was a re-
markable affair. It became one of
the horror mysteries of the time
In two short weeks over hundred
policemen were shot in the legs
by their own revolvers. INSPECTOR
Jones did not solve the mystery.
but it was his idea hat finally out
witted Gluck. In his recommendation
the policemen ceased carrying revol
vers and no more accidental shoot.
ings occurred.
1t was in the early spring of 1910
that Gluck destroyed the Mare Island
Navy Yard From a room in Vallejo,
he sent his electric discharges across
the Vallejo Straits to Mare Island
He first played his flashes on the
battleship Maryland. She lay at the
dock of one of the mine-magazines.