The Pulaskian., 1915-02-12


 tugal It was their wedding day. All possible precautions had been taken against the terrorists, and ths way from the cathedral, through Lisbon's streets, was double-banked with troops I while a squad of two hundred mounted 1 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 I were turned in all directions The l slaughter was terrible-horses, troops, 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- portunity. But who was to know this? | 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 1 world to know? He had stumbled up- on the secret in his old electroplating shop on Telegraph avenue in the city of Oakland It happened at that time, that a wireless telegraph station was established by the Thurston Power company close to his shop Tn a short time his electroplating vat was put out of order. The vat wiring had many bad joints. and, upon investigation, Gluck discovered minute welds 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 we'll 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 elec- tric discharge from the wireless sta tion four hundred feet away could pro- duce coherer effects on the bad joints | in the vat wiring
 Gluek thought no more about it at the time. He merely rewired his vat 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 l 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 1t.
 It was Emil Gluck that caused the terrible German-American war, with | sumption of almost incalculable treas ure. 1t will be remembered that in | 1889 strained relations existed be- tween the two countries. Germany, though aggrieved, was not anxious for war, and, as peace token, sent the crown prince and seven battleships | on a friendly visit to the United States. On the night of February 15. 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 battle- ships 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 believed that it had been done by submarine, and immediately declared war. It was six months after Gluck's confession, that she returned the Philippines and Hawaii to the United States.
 In the meanwhile, Emil Gluck. ma 1evolent 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 a 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.
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