Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-14
REPORTS PUT CAPTAIN BOY-ED
IN BERLIN AND PHILADEI PHIA

- The Treasury Department Is interested in
bog-Ed through its Secret Service.
Inc Postofhce Department is interested
received '' ah"
The Department of Justice is most in.
terested OF all, for It is said to the Depart-
ment OF Justice that all the other depart
ments appealed when there came the first
reports from authentic sources regarding
country '''
BY common consent Of the departms,t,
interested the Department Of Justice, which
Us the department which would prosecute
Boy-Ed in the event of his capture was
given complete charge Of the elaborate
investigation which the Government at once
set on foot. WV
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ON TRAIL,
The task fell to A. Bruce Bielasxi, chief
of the Department OF Justices Division OF
Investigation. Additional Secret Service
agents were sent from Washington to sup
plement the force here under the command
OF Frank Garbarino. special agent of the
Department In charge Of the Philadelphia
district.
The Government was vitality concerned In
finding Boy-Ed for these reasons furnished
the EVENING LEDGER officially in Washing
ton with the understanding that they were
not TO be published until such a time as the
suspected presence of Boy-Ed was generally
known. The EVENING LEDGER periodically
Kept this confidence. The first publication
Of Boy-Eds activities in this vicinity was
made last night.
EVENING LEDGER KEPT FAITH
The EVENING LEDGER therefore is now
able to say authortativey:
That the presence of Boy-Ed in this
country would give rise to an extremely
delicate international situation
That the information as to his presence
in the Philadelphia territory comes. on
the Governments own word from an ex-
tremely reliable and authentic source, a
source which this newspaper is not now
at liberty to diVulge.
That agents Of the Department of JUS
tice were prepared to search a house on
Twenty-second street below Chestnut
street the moment they established the
truth of information furnished them
that Boy-Ed was hiding therein.
TRAILED IN PHILADELPHIA
That automobiles containing Depart
ment of Justice agents have followed
other automobiles which left the
Twenty-second street house.
That the house of George W. Boyd,
general passenger agent Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company. at 12b
South Twenty second street, which he
leased to Mrs. Alexander Mackay-
Smith. widow of the Bishop of the
Episcopal diocese Of Pennsylvania, for
the winter has been under constant
surveillance. This watch has been
Neutrality-suspicious. watch.
That his place of concealment is now
believed to he one of the suburbs along
the Main Line Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, a house with grounds about
1t, with a garage, leased already fur
nished.
That Boy Eds capture will give into
the hands of the Government the head
and front. the brains and money source
Of all plots by spies and "hyphens" all
over the nation.
That he is suspected of completely in
the Bernstorff- Zimmerman plot to align
Mexico and Japan against the United
States in event of war with Germany.
LEADING SPIRIT IN PLOTS
That he is suspected of being the
leading spirit in the smuggling of goods
on and off the interned German raiders
at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, work.
ing in conjunction with Adebert koert-
ing Fischer, relative of Emperor Will
helm, through a morganatic marriage
That ali plch N far discovered or
which will be unearthed will be traced
to him if large sums of money are
necessary for their preparation and ac-
complishmcnt.
That Boy-Ed has even arranged his
defense in event of capture. calculating
that Americans are an easy-going peo-
pie with an ingrown love of romance
and gallantry, people about whom
Boy-Ed was once quoted to have said:
ITS so easy to fool the American
public" This defense will he that he
came to America not to plot, not to
engineer plots, but to be near the
woman he loves that he came secretly
because he had been dismissed officially
from this country and no other way
was left for him that he should not be
punished for seeking out the woman
he seeks to persuade to marry him
II IL. be a crime to love, then punish
him for that, but of no other crimes Is
he guilty. That he expects the senti-
mental quality of the American pubic
to create sufficient public opinion TO
gain him his freedom, That this plea
| would be false Captain Boy-Ed being
a firm believer In THE end justifies the
means" and the end in his case being
| the success of Germany, all else being
subseryient TO that and all pleas merely
suhterfuges to enable him to proceed
with his work" in the United states
MAY HAVE COME IN U-BoAT
captain Boyd-Ed is believed to have CONF
| to America in a submarine
There were two submarines on which III
| could have arrived.
He could have arrived on elther one o.
| the two trips of the merchant submarine
| Deutschland when 1t put into Baltimore OF
| it's first trip and into New LONDON on it'
| second or he could have been passenger
| on the U-53, a German war submarine
which ran unexpectedly into Newport OF
| October Z, 1916