New Britain herald., 1917-07-24
'HINSCH IN MEXICO .jl.|
 AND NOT IN BERLIN
Agent for Deutschland Did Not
 Cross Ocean in Small Boat

New York, July 24-Captain Fried ] rich Hinsch, who directed the busi 1 ness arrangeme ments in America for 1 the voyages of the German cargo l carrying submarine Deutschland, did l not escape from the United States on
 a small sailing ship and finally land | in Germany, as the Baltimore story, l printed in the newspapers of July IS, l said he o1o. Instead of making his 1 way back to Germany, Hinsch was in
 New 4ork until less than month
 ago, when he left for Baltimore. He
 remained in Baltimore probably | week or ten days, remaining in se-
 clusion his presence being known only to few intimate friends, mos. l of them, like himself, subjects of the German kaiser.
 I About ten days ago Hinsch. dis l guised as laboring man, arrived in | El Paso., Texas, from which city he wrote letter to friend in this 1 city, in the course of which he said 1 that he soon would be safe from 1 those - Yankees or words to
 that effect. The Yankees" referred
 to were the agents of the government | who were supposed to have him
 under surveillance during the many l weeks following the declaration of war against the Germna government,
 when he made New York city his l home.
 1 Persons who knew of Hinsch's l whereabouts while he was in New
 York and knew that he was in daily 1 comm unication with other German | agents, on several occasions notified 1 the Federal authorities where Hinsch
 was to be found and informed them with other enemy aliens. their go-
 between being a woman friend of | Captain Hinsch. It was to this wo- 1 man that he wrote the news of his 1 safe arrival in Ell Paso and his inn l pending flight across the Rio Grande l into Mexico.
 1 Among the German subject and | sympathiZers who were in communi- 1 cation with Hinsch while he was in
 New York is said to have been prominent German steamship official. 1 This man was among the first. to be
 notified by Hinsch's woman friend of l the captains safe arrival at the bor- 1 der.
 | Other Story Inspired.
 | A few days after it was known 1 that Hinsch was safe at or near Ell
 Paso the story from Baltimore to | the effect that he had sailed from 1 South Amboy in a small schooner a l few days after the president made his ] memorable speech before congress ] calling for a war declaration against l the German government was sent 1 out. Persons familiar with the real 1 facts in the case in talking of that story last night expressed the opin- l ion that the story might have been 1 inspired by German agents to cover Hinsch's tracks and to, make it an 1 easy matter for him to elude the border guards and escape into Mexi- co. Furthermore they pointed out | that as long as the South Amboy story was believed it would be com paratively safe for Hinsch to cross l the border back into America when l ever he felt inclined.
 The Federal officials to whom l Hinsch's presence was reported are 1 known to have made several visits to l the house in which Hinsch lived when
 in New York. But so far as is known 1 they did not have any conversation with him. nor was there any serious effort made to ascertain the identity | of the many enemy aliens with whom Hinsch is said to have been in daily communication thorough his woman friend. Hinsch is said to have been gone a week before the Federal
 agents knew it. Whether or not the government knows of the mans es-
 cape into Mexico is not known. Hinsch was an officer of the Ger
 man ships of the North German Lloyd
 line, and as such was subject to in ternment immediately after the war declaration was signed by the presi- dent. Hinsch holds commission in the German Naval Reserve, and was one of the most trusted German agents in the United States. Count Won Bernstorff, the former German ambassador at Washington and Cap tain Boy-Ed, the naval attache who was ordered out of the country, are both numbered among his friends. Captain Hinsch is the second wide ly known German agent to evade the American authorities and escape into Mexico. The other was Captain Rob- ert Fay. who escaped from the At lanta Penitentiary following his con- viction of conspiracy to blow up al lied ships plying between American and French, British and Italian ports. The regulations which are to gov ern enemy alien travel on excursion and other craft in New York harbor have not yet been issued by the de- partment of justice. The strange sit uation exists in New York of the en- tire water front being barred to enemy aliens, while those same aliers can travel at will about the harbor and see twice as much in one day as they could see in weeks if they re- mained on land. IIIrkIQ uAV Q00kI