The Winslow mail., 1915-03-06


tugal. 1t 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 squad of two hundred mounted
troopers surrounded the carriage. Sud-
denly the amazing thing happened.
The automatic rifles of the troopers
began to go off, as we'll as the rifles
of the double-banked infantry in the
Immediate vicinity. In the excitement
the muZzles of the exploding rifles
were turned in all directions. The
slaughter was terrible-horses, troops,
spectators, and the king and queen
were riddled with bullets. To com
plicate the affair, in different parts Of
the crowds behind the foot soldiers,
two terrorists had bombs explode on
their persons. These bombs they had
intended to throw if they got the op-
The frightful havoc wrought by the
bursting bombs but added to the con-
fusion; 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 up
on the secret in his old electroplating
shop on Telegraph avenue in the city
of Oakland. 1t happened, at that time,
that a wireless telegraph station was
established by the Thurston Power
company close to his shop. In a short
time his electroplating vat was put
out of order The vat wiring had many
bad joints, and, upon investigation,
Gluck discovered minute Yields at the
joints in the wiring. These, by lower
ing the resistance, had caused an eX-
cessive current to pass through the
solution, boiling" it and spelling the
work. But what had caused the
welds?" was the question in Gluck's
mind. His reasoning was simple Be-
fore 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 how? He
quickly answered the question. If an
electric discharge was capable Of oper-
ating a coherer across three thousand
miles of ocean, then, certainly the cleo
trio discharge from the wireless sta
tion four hundred feet away could pro-
duce coherer effects on the bad joints
in the vat wiring
Gluck thought no more about it at
the time. He merely rewired his vat
and went on electroplating. But after
ward, in prison, he remembered the in
cident, 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 dis
charge. At the time, this was the un-
solved 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.
It 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. 1t will be remembered that in
1899 strained relations existed be-
tween the two countries. 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 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
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 battle
ships blew up, one after another, at
regular, four-minute intervals. Ninety
per cent of the crews and officers,
Germany believed that it had been
done by submarine, and Immediately
declared war. 1t was six months after
Gluck's confession, that she returned
the Philippines and Hawaii to the
United States.
In the meanwhile, Emil Gluck, ma
levolent wizard and arch-hater, travel
ed his whirlwind path of destruction.
He left no traces. Scientifically thor
ough, he always cleaned up after him
SELF His method was to rent room
or house, and secretly to install his
apparatus-which apparatus, by the
way, he so perfected and simplified
that it occupied little space. After he
had accomplished his purpose, he care
fully 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 remark
able affair. 1t became one of the hor-