The Washington herald., 1914-05-24
struetion than all the terrorist group.
ADDED together.

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ifoenia By blowing up Fort Mason. In
his confession he spoke of it as little
experiment; he was merely trying his
hand. For eight years he wandered
over the earth, = mysterious terror, de-
stroying property to the tune of hun
dreds of millions of dollars and de-
stroying countless lives. One good re-
suit of his awful deeds was the destruc-
ton he wrought among the terrorists
themselves. Every time he did anything
the terrorists in the vicinity were gath
cred in by the police dragnet and many
of them were executed. Seventeen were
executed at Rome alone, following the
assassination of the Italian King.
Perhaps the most world-amazing
achievement of his was the assassina-
ton of the King and Queen of Por-
tugal It was their wedding day. All
possible precautions had been taken
against the terrorists, and the way from
the cathedral, through Lisbon's streets,
was double-banked with troops, while a
squad of two hundred mounted troopers
surrounded the carriage. Suddenly the
amazing thing happened. The automatic
rifles Of the troopers began to go off,
as well as the rifles of the double
banked infantry in the immediate vi
einity. In the excitement the muzzles
of the exploding rifles were turned in
all directions The slaughter was ter
rible-horses, troops, spectators, and the
King and Queen were riddled with bull
lets. To eomplicate the affair, in differ
ent parts Of the crowds behind the foot
soldiers, two terrorists had bombs ex-
plode on their persons. These bombs
they had intended to throw if they got
the opportunity. But who was to know
this! The frightful havoc wrought by
the bursting bombs but added to the
confusion; it was considered part of the
general attack.
And Emil Gluck chuckled and went
his way. He knew. But how was the
world to know! He had stumbled upon
the secret in his old electroplating shop
on Telegraph avenue in the city of Oak
land. II happened. at that time, that a
wireless telegraph station was estab-
!ished by the Thurston Power Company
close to his shop. In a short time his
eiectroplating vat was put out of order.
The vat wiring had many bad joints,
and, upon investigation, Gluck discov-
cred minute welds at the joints in the
wiring. These, by lowering the resist
ance, had caused an excessive current
to pass through the solution. boiling"
it and spoiling the work But what
had caused the welds" was the question
in Giuck's mind His reasoning was
simple. Before the establishment of the
wireless station, the vat had worked
well Not until after the establishment
of the wireless station had the vat been
ruined. Therefore, the wireless station
had been the cause. But hows He
quickly answered the question. If an
electric discharge was capable of opera
ing a coherer across three thousand
miles of ocean, then, certainly the cleo
tric discharge from the wireless station
four hundred feet away could produce
ooherer effects on the bad joints in the
vat wiring.
Gluck thought no more about it at
and went on electroplating. But after
ward, in prison, he remembered the in
eident, and like a fash 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. mas
tered il. And when he was released,
he applied it.
II was Emil Giuck that caused the
terrible German-American war, with the
loss of 10000 lives. and the consump-
tion of almost incalculable treasure. 1t
will be remembered that in 1889 strained
relations existed between the two eoun-
tries. Germany, though aggrieved, was
not anxious for war, and, as a peace
token, sent the crown prince and seven
battleships on a friendly visit to the
United States. On the night of Feb
ruary 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 a launch. This launch,
it was afterward 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 Electric Works. But this was
not 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, perished. Germany be-
lieved that it had been done by sub
marine, and Immediately declared war.
1t was six months after Cluck's con-
fession, that she returned the Philip
pines and Hawaii to the United States.
In the meanwhile, Emil Gluck, ma
levolent wizard and arch-hater, travelled
his whirlwind path of destruction. He
left no traces. Scientifically thorough,
he always cleaned up after himself. His
method was to rent a room or house,
and secretly to install his apparatus
which apparatus, BY the way, he so per-
fected and simplihed that it occupied
little space. After he had accomplished
his purpose, he carefully removed the ap-
paratus. He bade fair to live out a
long life of horrible crime.
The epidemic of the shooting of New
York City policemen was a remarkable
affair. II 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 mys-
terry, but it was his idea that finally out
witted Gluck On his recommendation
the policemen ceased carrying revolvers,
and no more accidental shootings oc-
CURED.
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