The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-02-26

achievement Of his was the assassina.
ton of the king and queen OF Por-
| tugal. 1t was their wedding day. All
possible precautions had been taken
| against the terrorists, and the way
| from the cathedral, through Lisbon's
| streets, was double-banked with troops
| while a squad of two hundred mounted
| troopers surrounded the carriage. Sud-
denly the amazing thing happened.
| The automatic rifles of the troopers
| began to go off, as well as the rifles
| of the double-banked infantry in the
| immediate vicinity. In the settlement
| the muzzles of the exploding rifles
! were turned in all directions. The
| slaughter was terrible-horses, troops,
spectators, and the king and queen
were riddIed 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 OPP
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
world to know? He had stumbled up
on the secret in his old electroplating
shop on Telegraph avenue in the city
of Oakland 1t happened, at that time,
that wireless telegraph station was
established by the Thurston Power
company close to his shop. In a short
time his electroplating vat was put
out of order. The vat wiring had many
bad joints, and, upon investigation,
Gluck discovered minute Yields 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 well. 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 cleo
trio discharge from the wireless sta
ton four hundred feet away could pro-
duce coherer effects on the bad joints |
in the vat wiring.
Gluck thought no more about it at |
the time. He merely rewired his vat |
and went on electroplating. But after
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 |
direction and scope of the electric dis
charge. At the time, this was ne I'M
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 it.
It was Emil Gluck that caused the
terrible German-American war, with
the loss of 100000 lives, and the con-
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
tnlrOT ant tha
crown prince and seven battleships
on a friendly visit to the United
States. On the night of February Is,
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
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 I'D, one after another, at
regular, four-minute intervals. Ninety :
Der cent of the crews and officers,
along with the crown prince, persisted, ;
Germany believed that it had been !.
lone by a submarine, and Immediately |,
declared war. 1t was six months after !
Sluck's confession, that she returned 7
he Philippines and Hawaii to the
United States.
In the meanwhile, Emil Gluck, ma
evolent wizard and arch-hater, travel
ID his whirlwind path of destruction. 7
lie left no traces. Scientifically thor =
ugh, he always cleaned up after him :
elf. His method was to rent room
r house, and secretly to install his :
pparatus-which apparatus, by the :
Tay, he so perfected and simplified
nat it occupied little space. After he :.
ad accomplished his purpose, he care !,
lily removed the apparatus. He babe !,
lir to live out long life of horrible =
-ime. !
The epidemic Of the shooting Of New !,
ork city policemen was remark a
BILE affair. 1t became one of the hor-
,r mysteries of the time In two :