The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-10
ANGRY And JOBLESS
GERMAN ARRESTED
.That's What Makes Us Dis
loyal" He Tells Marshal
When No Work Is Found.
WAS PERSON OF MEANS
Income Cut Off by War-Had
Served Six Years in
Kaiser's Army.

Christian Schroeder, a German lndi-
v'dual of leisure who thought II was the
duty of United States Marshal Thomas
n. Mccarthy to get him job when war
cut Off his income from Germany. was
arrested yesterday by the Marshal and
lodged in the Ludlow street Jail.
Schroeder called on the Marshal to
zee II that official had been successful in
getting him a job. The Marshal had
not. In angry disappointment Schroeder,
turning to go, said. "It Is this kind Of
treatment that makes US disloyal." This
made the Marshal angry in his turn and
he arrests ! Schroeder.
Schroea ,rd his wife, who came
from Germany with him as bride in
1871, lived al 573 West 193d street. He
was born IN tft"ograd in 1869. His
parents were Germans who returned to
their own country two years after his
birth. Schroeder was well educated and
served in the German army six years as
a First Lieutenant.
Toe Good to Re True to L. 9.
He had an income from an inner
itance. the principal OF which was In
Germany, and he never worked in this
country. Interest payments were cut off
by the war and he has been living on his
savings. Recently he reported to Mar
shall Mccarthy that he was nearly pen
niless and had found 1t impossible to get
work because he was a German. The
Marshal promised to see what he could
10 for him
Schroeder scrupulousy complied with
n nf fhn -, ,Iatt IT.
care in this respect has been so excep-
uonal that an Official said yesterday it
had caused him to be regarded with sus-
picion. When examined at the Enemy
Alien Bureau he said that he approved
of the sinking OF the Lusitania and the
invasion OF Belgium. He was asked why
he had not sought relief at an employ
ment bureau established to aid men OF
his class and said he did not approve of
German-Americars who became I'M
hyphenated Americans when this coun-
try entered the war.
AS he was being taken from the bu-
reau to Jail Schroeder said This Is
what get FOR doing right by the United
States
Calls Code Piano Lessons.
Joseph Wagner. %, EOS East Fifty
iANSI GhicVL- WIZ W dTTeSI6u
because he had an air rife, was exam
ined at the Enemy Alien Bureau yester-
day by Perry NJ Armstrong, chief en-
aminer He was committed to the Lud-
low street Jail to await investigation.
Wagner is said to have received q
folder every day containing 4 sheet of
paper with letters and symbols that are
suspected Of having code meanings. The
tolder he received the day of his arrest
had sheet with the cryptic letters
"l-P-L-O-N-E." There was nothing else
on the paper. Wagner explained the
messages by saying he was a pianis. and
had been taking lessons by mail
Wagner's father is in the Austrian
army. He was born in Nuremberg, Ger
many, and came to the United states
in 1913. He worked for jewel. IN
Maiden Lane as a pollsher for Sl2 a
week. Notwithstanding his small income
he was stamp collector, and is said to
have purchased $40 worth OF unusual
stamps III August. The Federal officers
have Instituted an investigation TO learn
II stamps may have been used by Wag-
ner to transmit code messages.
Wagner had a naval code book which
had been in the library OF the /. $. 5.
Minnesota. In this book a list Of Bra
lillian warsllips had been checked of. He
had map of South America on which
distances had been noted.