Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-25

but It was only Giuck's overture. ne
played his flashes down the Mare
island shore. blowing up nye toFpeuo
boats. the torpedo station and tna
great magazine al the eastern END os
the island Returning westward AGAIN
and scooping in occasional isoiaiee
magazines on the high ground back
from the shore. he blew up three
cruisers and the battleships Oregon.
Delaware. New Hampshire and FLORIDA
the latter had just gone into dsy
dock, and the magnificent dry DOCK
was destroyed along with her.
II was frightful catastrophe, and q
shudder of horror passed through the
land. But 1t was nothing to what was
to follow. In the late fail OF uhat
year, Emil Gluck made a oaean sweep
of the Atlantic seaboard from Maine
to Florida Nothing escaped. Forts
mines, coast defenses of all sort tor
peio stations, magazines every hng
went up. Three months afterWaru, IN
midwinter, he smote the north shore
OF the Mediterranean from Gibraltar
to Greece In the same SIMPLIFYING man
! ner. A wall went mp from the nations.
| 1t was clear that human agency was
behind all this destruction, and 4 was
equally clear, because OF Emil dluck's
inpartiality, that the destruction Was
not the work Of any particular NATION
One thing was patent namely, mat
whoever was the human behind u an.
| that human was a menace to one
| world. No nation was safe. There
was no defense against this unknown
| and alLpowerful foe. WaEfare was
| futile--nay, not merely futile, bat
itself the very essence OF the peril
For q twelvemonth the manufacture OF
| powder ceased and all soldiers and
sailors were withdrawn from an for
| tifications and war vessels. And even
a world disarmament was seriously
| considered at a convention Of the DOW
ers held at The Hague at that time.
And then Silas Bannarman. secret
service agent Of the omitted States,
leaped into world fame bg the arrest
OF Emil Gluck. AT first Zimmerman
was laughed at. but he had prepared
| his case well, and In few weeks the
most skeptical were convinced OF
Emil Giuek's guilt. The one thing.
however. that Silas Bannerman never
| succeeded in explaining, even to his
1 own satisfaction, was how first he
came to connect Chuck with the akruci-
| Gus crimes. IL Is true, HaHnerIaan was
In Vallejo on secret government ss1si-
ness at the time of the destruction OF
| Mare island; and It is true thai On
the streets OF Vallejo Emia 6luck was
1 pointed out to him as a queer crank;
but no impression was made at the
time. 1t was not until afterward, when
on vacation In the Rocky mountains.
and when reading the farst Published
reports of the destruction along the
Atlantic coast, that suddenly Banner
man thought OF Emil Gluek. Aud On
the instant there flashed into his mind
the connection between Giack and the
destruction. II was only hypothe-
sis, but 1t was sufficient The great
thing was the conception Of the by
pothesis, In itself an act Of uncoR-
scious cerebration-a thing as unac-
countable as the flashing, for instance.
into Newton's mind of the principle OF
gravitation.
The rest was easy. where was
Gluck at the. time of the destructfoa
. along the Atlantic seaboardT' was the
question that formed In BanRerman,s
mind. BY his own request he was put
upon the case. In no time be ascer-
tanned that Gluck had himself been
up and down the Atlantic coast in the
late fall Of 1910. Also ne ascertainnl
that Gluck had been In New York city
! during the epidemic Of the shooting
, of police officers. Where was Chuck
now?" was Bannermans next queKy.
And as II In answer came the whose-
sale destruction along the Mediter~
, ranean. Gluck had sailed for Europe q
, month before. Bannerman knew that
! 1t was not necessary for Bannerman
to 60 to Europe. BY means OF cable
, messages and the cooperation OF the
European secret services, he traced
Gluck's course along the Mediterran.
can and found that In every instance
!, 1t conceded with the blowing ND OF
coast defenses and ships. Also, he
learned that Gluck had just saEaed On
!, the Green Star liner Platonic for the
|, United States.
The case was complete In Banner
). mans mind, though in the interval of
. waiting he wound up the details. In
this he was also assisted by George
Brown. an operator employed by the
!. Wood system OF wireless teIesxanhy,
, When the Plutonic arrived or SaRds
! Hook, she was boarded by Bannerman
a from government tug and Rlnfi Glnek
i was made prisoner. The trial and the
! confession followed In the comics
!. sion. Chuck professed regret for one
a thing only, namely. that he had taken
a his time. AS he said. had he ever
dreamed that he was to be discovered
= he would have worked more rapialy
and accomplished o thousand times One
. destruction he did.
al His secret died with him. thoasA l,