The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-17
STOLE US. SECRET
Boyd Got Confidential Navy
Report Intended for Wilson.
Servant Overheard McAdOO
Discussing Document.
ANOTHER SERVANT TOLD OF IT
The Latter MySteriOuSly DiSap-
peared From BOy-Ed'S Office.
Ordnance Strength of Navy
Part of Information.
ANOTHER SERVANT TOLD OF IT

New York, Dec. IA sensational
story of the strange disappearance of
a confidential report made by high
officials of the United States navy TO
President Wilson was narrated in this
city today by an unofficial agent of
the French government.
The document is said to have
contained an outline of the ordnance
strength of the navy
Indirectly concerned in its disap-
pearance, according to the informant.
ar. William G. McAdOO, secretary of
the treasury. and Paul NJ Warburg,
member of the federal reserve board,
and a financial adviser OF the Wilson
administration
The report, or 4 resume of the re-
port. found its way into the hands Of
Captain Karl Boyd. Unknown to
Secretary McAdoo and Mr.. Warburg,
the document or its substance was
turned over to Captain BOy-Ed by a
servant.
This servant, according to the press
informant, was a German secret serv-
ice agent. The agent learned of the
existence of the document while serv-
ing dinner to Mr.. McAdoo and Mr..
Through a leak in Boy-Ed's Of
flee. President Wilson learned of the
theft, thirty minutes after the infor-
nation had been turned over to
Boy-Ed.
The whole affair. up to the final
denouement took place several days
before Secretary Lansing requested
the recall of the German attache, the
informant added
The Story.
The story as it was told today fol-
lows:
Three weeks ago report prepared
for the president by naval officers got
into the hands of Captain BOy-Ed.
The contents of the document were
known TO scarcely half a dozen men in
Washington One of these was Secre-
tary MCAdoO-
Mr.. McAdoo dined with Mr.. War
burg about this time The man who
served them is an agent in the en-
plOy OF Germany.
The dinner took place in New
York The man from Washington
spoke of the report. over the coffee
and cigars he told the contents of the
documents. Within very short time
Captain Boyd had memorandum
of this conversation
- day or two later President Will
son was informed that the substance
OF the report or a partial copy was in
the hands of CapLafna,BOy-E,d- This
information came from man en-
pIoyed in Boy-Ed's office at No II
Broadway.
IN a manner that cannot now
explain. Boy-F,d learned that the pres
ident had been fully informed of his
(Boy-Ed's) knowledge. The German
naval attache promptly charged one of
this information to the United States
government.
There was a violent quarrel and
the secretary said: If you wish to
have a public scandal over this, I am
perfectly willing. In fact, shall
cause a public scandal unless you tell
me how you became acquainted with
the contents OF the report
Captain Boy-Ed then outlined the
IA cts as I have given them TO you. A
day or so ago I learned that one OF
Boy-Ed's employees had strangely
vanished"
Captain BOy-Ed refused all COM
ment today He would not admit that
one of his secretaries. GusUave Krue-
ger. Is missing. Kruger came here
shortly after the outbreak of the war
He was formerly attached to the
chancellOry of the German embassy
in Toxic.
Kruger lived aboard the President
Lincoln, tied up at the North German
Lloyd piers in Hoboken- He was last
seen. according TO a colleague last
Saturday evening when he went