Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-07
R|u6IlIitAUtRS Il E|I.j IN
PLOTS ARRESTED
Sixty Alleged Spy Leaders
to Be Held During
War; No Bail.
$1,000 RESERVES HERE
Young Germans in This
Country to Be Watched
Closely by U. S.
$1,000 RESERVES HERE

| or sixty alleged ringleaders in Ger
man plots. conspiracies and machina-
tions in the United States was ordered
today by Attorney General Gregory
Immediately after President Wilson
had signed the war resolution.
Every man whose arrest was or
dered Is German citizen and known
| by the department of Justice, II was
authoritatively stated, to have parti-
| cipated actively In German intrigues
| in this country and is regarded as Il
| dangerous person to be at large.
To Refuse Bonds.
Bail will be refused In each case
| IL was said. and the entire group Will
be locked up unless there is n change
| In present laws, for the duration of
| the war.
Indications are that number OF
| other arrests Will be ordered within
| the next few days.
The men are placed in three groups:
Into Three Glasses.
Those who have been convicted Of
| violation OF American neutrality In
| furtherng German plots of various
sorts and are at liberty under bond
awaiting the action OF higher courts;
those who have been indicted by fed
eral grand iures for similar offenses
and are at liberty under bond awaiting
tlai, and persons neither indicted nor
convicted, but whose activities have
been under long surveillance by the
| secret service or the departments bu-
| reau of investigation.
For the first time In more than "a
century arrests OF allen enemies un-
| der the attorney-general's order will
| be made without reference to the
| courts or obtaining warrants The
ia lmnDwnrnI pdnnf
course in time OF war under an net of
congress passed In 1898 and not in
voked since the war with Great Brit
ain.
The department. has under strict
surveillance thousands of German re-
serves resident in the United States
who are suspected of having been
connected with plots already brought
to light. with plots abandoned before
perfection, or who have been active
in German propaganda or because of
their accentuated leanings toward the
German government are regarded as
likely to work against the interests OF
the United states during the war.
How many German reservsts are
residents OF the United States. high
official said tonight has never been
accurately determined and Is largely
a matter of conjecture. This officials
belief was that the number ranged be-
tween $50 600 and 100000 The great
majority 1T was said, are men In mid
die life or beyond or men who have
been In this country for so many years
that their sympathies In the present
struggle are considered virtually as
having been transplanted to the
United States
There is, however, II was said. an
army OF between 5000 and $4,000
young German reservists In this coun-
try In the prime of life who have been
here for n short time-not more than
from three to fiVe years-that they
may be properly regarded as potential
sources of trouble. Upon this army
the secret service and the bureau of
investigation have concentrated much
OF their energy.
Names Secret.
For obvious reasons the department
of Justice withheld the names of per
sons ordered apprehended today. but
it was said that virtually all OF them
could be classed as quasi officials of
the German government. Many of
them, 1t is alleged, were instrumen-
talities thru which Captains Boy-E
and Won Pappen carried out their ac-
tivties in this country against the
allies. A few of that number. II was
said, could properly be classed as
spies The department Is prepared to
contest to the highest court any ef-
fort made to obtain the liberation un- |
der bond or by habeas corpus pro-
ceedlngs of the men ordered arrested !
today. The manner In which the ar /
rests were ordered made-by United |
States marshals forthwith without ref |
erence to the courts-is n purely war |
time step, unauthorized In time OF !
peace. and there are but two prece-
dents on the statute books to guide !
legal authorities in the fight in the |
courts which is to follow.
These precedents concern one man,
Charles I.ockington, British subject |
residing. in Philadelphia at the out
break Of the war OF 1872. In con
formity with President Madson's !
proclamation requiring all alien enc
mics living within forty miles OF tide
water to report their presence to the
nearest United States marshal. Lock-
ington reported to the marshal at
Philadelphia and was removed to
Reading, where he was given limited
liberty under parole. Later he was
found at large In Philadelphia and
appealed to the courts against the or
der to convey him back to Reading.
President Sustained.
His case came up first In the Penn
sylvania courts and later before JUS
tice Washington. who sustained the
presidents action under the act OF
1898 in an opinion In which he said
'The power OF the president under
the first section of the law to estab-
lish by his proclamation or other pub
lic act, rules and regulations for ap-
pretending. restrainlng. securing and
removing alien enemies, under the
circumstances stated In the section,
appears to me to be as unlimited as
the legislature could make It," ,,