Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-09-23

fessional honor (the record indicates
that he was paid $1,000 for travelling
expenses") is suggested by the fact
that he was expelled, or alleged to
have been expelled. from Berlin for a
violent attack upon Ambassador Ge-
rard. Emerson has had a picturesque
career in many parts of the world,
and once cabled to a New York news
paper a picturesque but imaginative
account of his own death in the Far
East under painful and interesting
conditions. He was born in Dresden.
of American parents, and is now
travelling under American passport OBJ
tanned by false representations.
Fair Play" that misnamed organ
of Teutonic inspiration. appears to
have been subsidized quite dispropor-
tionately to its value. since it received
in all $4,000 in the course of a few
months in 1915. Marcus Braun, who
appears as its editor. is known as a
political leader among the Hungarians
of lower Second avenue, in New York,
and has been variously connected with
the fringes of the publication world.
He is supposed himself to be a Hun
garian. His associate in Fair Play
was one J. P. Bryan.
Even with such liberal support
Fair Play" did not fill the bill. for
in January, 1916, letter was written
by F. Schroeder, a German newspaper
correspondent in Toxic. to the German
diplomatic representatives lamenting
the lack of a genuinely influential
weekly in New York devoted to Teu-
tonic interests. and suggesting that
one Borsodi might be the right man
to conduct such a publication.
Frequent hints of George Sylvester
Viereck's journalistic activities ap
pear, and there are a few notations of
Pearson: Subject, Press" which may
refer to Parsons Magazine, of which
the editor, Frank Harris, is strongly
pro-German, or may indicate a secret
agent named Pearson, who is the sub
iect of other entries.
The lecture platform is represented
by Ray Beveridge, the California art
list. and sister of Kuehne Beveridge,
the prominent sculptor. In one entry
Privy Counsellor Albert acknowledges
receipt of $4,000 from the embassy I,
finance Miss Beveridge's lecture tour.
German war pictures were also to
be furnished. though the alleged scope
of the lectures was to be comprised
in topics allied to Red Cross work.
Other figures of more vauge import
drift into light here and there in the
Won Igel papers or the bureau OF in,
vestigation reports. Col. E. G. Wood
ford, an old British hater, appears TO
have received sundry sums fmoney
for services unspecified The follow.
ing letters found in the Won Igel
papers refer to Col. Woodford:
New York, April 4, 1916.
His Excellency Mr.. Won Igel,
New York, n. Y:
According to a letter received here
today the imperial embassy is of the
same opinion as myself-that money
should not be paid to Woodford.
Please act accordingly and inform
Woodford, if he should show up there
again, that Berlin has received the
letter regarding the sum to be paid
and has besides again been asked by
telegraph whether money should be
paid.
Until answer is received from Ber-
lin, nothing more can be paid.
(Singed) PRETZELL.
Colonel Woodford appears, however.
from the following letter to have re-
ceived the sums promised:
New York, April 10. 1916.
His Excellency Mr.. Won Egel!
Please pay the remainder of the two
hundred and fifty dollars to Woodford
He is to receive $500 according to
order (from Berlin).
Please have the inclosed receipt at
tested
(Signed) P. r.
All these, it must be remembered,
are but a small portion of one Ger
man agents records. They represent
but one chamber. as it were, in an
enormous and complicated maze OF un.
derground plotting. Other entries ap-
pear too vague to indicate anything
more definite than some connection
with or interests in enterprises already
notorious-payments to the Welland
canal conspiracy; correspondence with
DR.. Walter Scheele, accused of being
bomb manufacturer; references to
the Maverick and the Annie Larsen,
blockade runners; side lights on Japa-
nese propaganda; Mexican plots, and
Canadian lines of secret information;
even hints that officers high in the
military service of the United States
were being improperly used for Ger
man military enterprises.
How far the plot goes will probably
never be known. The spider, Won
Ieel, had scuttled away t. his own
refuge in Germany. His nest is de-
stroyed But the strands of the web