Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-05
Alleged Conspiracy to Fur
nish Fraudulent Pass
ports.
ARREST 4 SOLDIERS
Lieutenant Of the German
Army Alleged to be I'M
plicated in Deal.

NEW YORK, Jan. An alleged
L y conspiracy to furnish German
army officers and reservists with
American passports fraudulently OBJ
tanned, to enable them to return to
Germany from this country without
/ danger Of molestation by French or
English authorities was brought to
light today by the department of JUS
tiCe.
The disclosure came with the ar
rest Of Carl Ruroede. a former agent
for the North German Lloyd steam
ship line, and with the removal from
the outward bound steamer Bergens-
fjord of a German army officer and
three German rcservists. All Of them
were charged with conspiracy to de-
fraud the United Staes government
through the use Of American pass
ports.
The four soldiers were taken off
the steamer, which was bound for
Bergen, Norway just as she was pass
ing quarantine and brought back to
New York on a revenue cutter. All
four bore Photographic passports is
sued by the state department to
Americans and alleged to have been
arrests are expected in the near flu
ture, one prominent German.Amer-
lean Of this city
Ruoredc said tonight, according to
agents Of the department of Justice
who had questioned him. that what
ever he had done had been on his
own initiative and was inspired by
patriotic motives. He was held In
$4,000 bail, which he was unable to
furnish tonight. With him was ar
rested John Aucher, his alleged asso-
Ciatc who was also held in $4,000
bail, and Ruorede's l7-yearold son
was released on his own recognizance.
The German army officer, Lieuten-
ant Arthur Wilhelm Zachse, was pa
rolled on his honor "as an officer and
a gentlemen not to leave New York
during the pendency of the present
proceedings.
The three reseTvists, Walter Muller,
August Meyer and Herman Wegener,
who recently came here from Chile,
We're held in $4,000 bail each.
There were detained also under
$500 bail each four others as material
witness, two with American and two
with German names.
Protect americans.
The arrests were the elimination, 1t
was said at the department Of justice
here tonight, of an investigation
which has been in progress ever since
the arrest in England Of Carl Lody,
who was subsequently executed in
the Tower OF London as u German
spy. Lody had a passport issued to
an American, and II became known
to the department Of justice that other
American passports were also in the
hands OF German citizens. This dis
covery was of great concern to the
state department as it was feared
that Americans holding good pass
ports would be open to suspicion and
possible peril of their lives I'm the
countries belligerent to Germany.
District Attorney Marshall in
statement issued tonight said that in
view of this danger now emphasized
by today's arrests the state depart
mcnt has established a system by
which, if any American passport is
exposed to question, the nearest dip
lomatlc or consular officer Of this
government will, on request, send a
cable report Of the essential facts in
the case, which the state department
will investigate and cause verification
or disavowal of the passport involved,
to be Cabled promptly to the officer
who iuaugurated the inquiry"
but Few Obtained.
Mr. Marshall added that thorough
investigation had revealed the fact