Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-02-13

played MS uaSneS down the mare
island shore. blowing up Ave torpedo
boats, the torpedo station and the
great magazine at the eastern end of
the island. Returning westward again,
and scooping in occasional isolated
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 dry
dock, and the magnificent dry dock
was destroyed along with her.
TT was a frightful catastrophe, and a
shudder of horror passed through the
land. But 1t was nothing to what was
to follow. In the late fall of that
year, Emil Gluck made clean sweep
of the Atlantic seaboard from Maine
to Florida. Nothing escaped Forts,
mines, coast defenses of all sort, tor
pedo stations, Notwithstanding
went up. Three months afterward, in
midwinter, he smote the north shore
OF the Mediterranean from Gibraltar
to Greece In the same Supplying man.
ner. A wall went up from the nations.
1t was clear that human agency was
behind all this destruction, and 1t was
equally clear, because of Emil Glucks
impartiality, that the destruction was
not the work Of any particular nation.
One thing was patent, namely, that
whoever was the human behind it all,
that human was a menace to the
world. No nation was safe. There
was no defense against this unknown
and allpowerful foe. Warfare was
futile-nay, not merely futile, but
itself the very essence Of the peril.
For twelvemonth the manufacture of
powder ceased and all soldiers and
sailors were withdrawn from all for
tifications and war vessels. And even
world disarmament was seriously
considered at convention of the pow
ers held at The Hague at that time
And then Silas Bannerman, a secret
service agent of the United States,
leaped into world fame by the arrest
of Emil Gluck At first Bannerman
was laughed at, but he had prepared
his case well, and in few weeks the
most skeptical were convinced of
Emil G)uck's guilt. The one thing,
however, that Silas Bannerman never
In explaining, even to his
own satisfaction, was how first he
came to connect Gluck with the atroci-
GUS crimes. 1t is true, Bannerman was
in Vallejo on secret government bust
ness at the time of the destruction of
Mare island; and it Is true that on
the streets of Vallejo Emil Gluck was
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 first published
reports of the destruction along the
Atlantic coast, that suddenly Banner
man thought of Emil Gluck. And on
the instant there flashed into his mind
the connection between Gluck and the
sis, but it was sufficient. The great
hing was the conception of the n.y.
pothesis, In itself an act of uncon-
'cious cerebration-a thing as unac-
,ountable as the flashing, for instance,
nto Newton's mind of the principle of
The rest was easy where was
4luck at the time of the destruction
Ilong the Atlantic seaboard?" was the
question that formed In Bannerman's
mind. By his own request he was put
lpon the case. In no time he ascer-
aimed that Gluck had himself been
Up and down the Atlantic coast in the
ate fall of 1910. Also he ascertained
hat Gluck had been in New York city
Turing the epidemic of the shooting
L police officers. Where was Gluck
ow?" was Bannerman's next query.
md as If in answer came the whole
ale destruction along the Mediter-
anean. Gluck had sailed for Europe a
lonth before. Bannerman knew that.
was not necessary for Bannerman
D go to Europe By means of cable
Messages and the cooperation of the
European secret services, he traced
luck's course along the Mediterran
an and found that in every instance
conceded with the blowing up of
past defenses and ships. Also, he
armed that Gluck had just sailed on
lie Green Star liner Plutonic for the
nited States.
The case was complete in Banner.
ans mind, though in the interval of
aiting he wound up the details. In
lis he was also assisted by George
rown, an operator employed by the
God system of wireless telegraphy.
hen the Plutonic arrived off Sandy
ook, she was boarded by Bannerman
ON government tug and Emil Gluck
as made prisoner. The trial and the
'nfession followed. In the confess
on, Gluck protested regret for one
ing only, namely, that he had taken
s time. AS he said, had he ever
canned that he was to be discovered
would have worked more rapidly
ID accomplished thousand times the
he did.