Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-07-20
lOWAN ARREST
Ed BY SECRET
SERVICE MAN
F. G. Weinschenk of Bellevue Is
Held as Result Of His Pc
culiar Actions.
HIS SANITY IS QUESTIONED.
Long Series of Letters to President
Wilson Source of Much
Uneasiness.
us SANITY IS QUESTIONED.

Washington, D. c., July IF
G. Weinschenk, whose home is al
Bellevue, Jackson county, Ia, where
his wife now is, was arrested late
yesterday afternoon by a secret ser
vice agent of the government under
circumstances of most remarkable
sort. His case is little less interest
ing than the recent one of Holt anG
the "Pearce" letters which are agi.
tating various cities.
Weinschenk has been operating
the international information bu-
reau which has been distributing
incendiary German propaganda
throughout the country. He is now
undergoing observation as to his
sanity at the Washington hospital
for the insane. The arrest was made
by J. M. Nye, of the secret service,
as Weinschenk left his offices in the
District National Bank building in
this city.
Obsessed according to the secret
service bureau with the idea the
United States government is control
led by King George of England and
the Free Masons, Weinschenck has
been writing letters to President
Wilson and other officials of the gov
eminent as we'll as to newspapers
throughout the country, charging
that the American government has
been dominated by Great Britain in
its foreign policy stand, and that the
United States and England combin-
ed were responsible for the outbreak
OF the present European war.
He also has urged, it is alleged,
the establishment of a world govern
ment with headquarters on an island
near the Panama canal and the
transfer of the pope and the church
of Rome to this island, from which
the entire world might be ruled.
Although he has made no direct
threats of violence against the pres
ident in his letters to the White
house, say the federal agents, the &C
ton of the government authorities
in placing him under arrest was due
to the language used in a recent cir
cular of the international informa-
ton bureau predicting that if the
United States was not more friendly
toward Germany, certain mysterious
trouble would arise in this country.
There is danger lurking in many
quarters" the circular reads, (which
may burst into flame most any mo-
ment. As those dominating the
country are not independent to act
impartially they had best not med
die with the German factors and
Latin nations at this critical mo-
ment. There is danger from within
as we'll as from abroad, for the rea-
son that the duplicity of the Anglo
American combination has been
worked overtime and is due to re-
act,
Ii this same circular which bore
the date of July 5, 1915, and carried
the name of Weinschenck as "man-
ager" of the information bureau"
comment on the attempted assassin
alton of J. P. Morgan was in this
fashion:
Supplying arms and ammunition
to one side while the other has her
hands tied may be an Anglo-Amerl-
can brand of neutrality, but it is a
mighty cowardly brand. Instead Of
standing by the constitution she
(the United States) has been used
as tool for another"
Although the secret service au-
thorities are convinced Weinschenk
is Of unsound mind, they regarded
his circular as tending to inspire
other cranks to violence. The man
is said 70 have been at one time a
very successful real estate operator
in Iowa and Kansas where he amass-
ed a large fortune.
Clark TO Welcome Bell.