The Sentinel=record., 1914-11-28
ASSOCIATED PRESS
 NEWS IS STOLEN
WAS BEING DISTRIBUTED BY LESSER AGENCIES THROUGH
 TRICK AND THEFT.
Telegraph Operator in New York Globe Office Was Taking Report in Secret and Selling to Others.

New York, Nov 27-H. l.. Linder. telegraph operator in the employ Of the Postal Telegraph Company. at- tached to the office of the New Yorl, Globe was arrested here today. charged with violating section 552 Of tAe penal law in that he revealed the contents of telegraphic message sent out by the Associated Press.
 For a long time it has been evident that the dispatches of the Associated Press were being systematically stolen and were re-distributed by a number of smaller agencies to their clients A careful watch was set upon the business and suspicion pointed to a certain man employed in the office of the Globe, a New York evening paper, as the guilty person
 The case was considered by the ex ecutive committee of the Associated Press directors at recent meeting and a plan to detect the culprits and bring them t. justice was adopted For the purpose of transmitting the more important news in bulletins. wires connect the central office of the organization at No 5l Chambers street with the editorial rooms Of the various members in New York. In the office of the Globe these bulletins were copied aurreptittously by II. l.. ldnder a telegraph operator em- plOyed by the Postal Telegraph Com. pany and repeated to the New York News bureau. a Wall street concern Frequently within two or three min. utes after their receipt in the office of the Globe they appeared oa the news bureaus ticker and in the re ports of the International News ser vice, the Central News of America and other minor organizations.
 Trapped by Fake Dispatch.
 For the purpose of trapping the wire tappers the following dispatch was prepared:
 Bulletin F. o. s.
 'Petrograd. Nov 27.-The Russian dreadaought Fliba, formerly the Is. mail striking a mine in the Gulf of Finland, is a complete loss with 453 lives.
 Add Petrograd under dash: ''Loss of Fiiba-The Ismail was one of four Baltic dreadnougAts laid down at the Cronstadt yard in 1912. She had a displacement of 2S,000 tons and carried nine 14-inch guns and twenty 5-inch."
 The short bulletin wire to the Globe office was detached from the circuit which included the other New York evening newspapers, members of the Associated Press, so that tn message should go to the Globe alone. As anticipated the dispatch instantly appeared upon the ticker and not long after was printed in the papers served hy other news agencies in diff ferent parts of the country As soon as this was done and before it ar- peared in any issue of the Globe a notice to kill" was sent out and the telegram therefore at no time reached the public as from the Associated Press
 Operator Makes Confession.
 The word "Fliba' was crytic Sub. sttuting for the initial consonant the consonant following it in the alIha- bet and for the two vowels following in the alphabet "Fliba" became Globe" thus the culprits were left no chance for escape. The telegram was identified beyond question and it's source made plain. The telegraph operator was arrested and made a full confession. He was arraigned