The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-07
PARENTS OF PRETTY
SPY SUSPECT TAKEN
Mrs. voorhees, Sent to Critten-
den Home, to Be Ex-
amined Later.
LAST HUSBAND LOCATED
Identity Of Lieutenant Re-
garded as Spouse Is Still
Kept Secret

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pretty young German woman who Is al
legged to have dropped one husband after
another as she moved from post to post
at the order OF the German intelligence
service, was committed to the Florence
Crittenton Home yesterday. Her father,
Fritz Norf. 46. and her stepmother,
Amelia, were arrested yesterday and
committed to separate jails, Norf to
the Essex county jail at Newark.
Mrs. Voorhees, and her father were
classified as enemy aliens yesterday.
They were committed by Perry NJ. Arm
strong. chief examiner of the Enemy
Alien Bureau
Mr.. Armstrong said that he would not
begin the examination OF father and
daughter until next week. Meantime
James +. Smith. Assistant State District
Attorney, may go as far as he can with
an investigation Of the reports that make
Mrs Voorhees, the leading actress in a
sensational spy drama, the scenes Of
which have settings in Mexico. the Long
Island aviation fields. big uptown hotels
and an apartment at 596 West 111th
street where army officers were enter
tanned.
Husband Airplanc Mechanic.
The husband whom Mrs. Voorhees, Is
alleged to have acquired in Mexico and
the Lieutenant of the Quartermaster's
Department with whom she Is said to
have lived In the West 11lth street
apartment, remained anonymous yester-
day while Mr.. Smith and officers OF the
Army Intelligence Bureau followed leads
that took them to Hampstead and Gar
den City. but the incumbent husband did
not
He was identified by Mr.. Armstrong
as Herbert Voorhees,. an airplane me-
chanic, 500 Franklin street. Hampstead.
Voorhees, said he was married to the spy
suspect December 81. 1917. and she re-
manned with him until July 2.
Norf. who Anglicized his name to
Frederick North, was charged with vio-
lating the enemy alien regulations. His
rooming house in Hampstead was within
half mile OF an aviation field. He had
no prohibited area permit Mr.. Arm
strons said that Information had come
to him that employees at the aviation
field were among Norris roomers
Omcers Her Specially.
Before she was sent to the Enemy
Alien Bureau Mrs. Voorhees, was ques-
toned by Mr.. Smith. Afterward the
Assistant District Attorney said that she
had made a speciality of winning the
friendship Of army officers with whom
she became acquainted in two fashion
able hotels where she frequently dined
and danced. She represented the Lieu
tenant who passed much time In her
apartment as her husband. Mr.. Smith
says. and this explanation served to
cover frequent occasions when small
groups Of army officers were guests at
gay parties.
An American citizen and two enemy
Aliens were arrested yesterday charged
with having nitric acid. an ingredient of
explosives, in their possession Illegally
The citizen was Richard Ehric who
runs saloon and rooming house at
l46 Seventh avenue. The enemy aliens
were Ludwig SAKE. who lives with Ehric.
and Gustave Pohlan, e29 Second avenue.
Ehric was arraigned before Samuel
Hitchcock, United States Commissioners.
The others were taken to the enemy
alien bureau. All were held for investi-
cation.
SAKE was discovered TO be a profess
slonal man with an unusual occupation.
He said he was a bookkeeper and ac-
countant in the employ of about twenty
five saloonkeepers. He travels from
place to place to adjust the books Of
each.
Used Acid in Painting.
Pohlan said he was a sign painter and
used the acid in his work. T. ]. Ford of
the army intelligence bureau declared
that the men had pound of the acid in
their possession in Ehric's saloon. It
is against the statutes for a citizen to
have this acid without a permit and it's
possession IL prohibited to enemy aliens.
Max Miller, 40. 220 Fiftieth street,
Brooklyn, an enemy allen. who during
fifteen years OF married life is declared
to have kept his wife in ignorance OF
his German nationality. was committed
to the Essex county Jail at Newark yes
terday to await investigation. He was
charged with working within the barred
zone.
Mrs. Miller thought her husband was
a Swiss, She was born In this country.
Miller. who came to this country In 1898,
was a fireman on American Line steam
ships until he went to work as q riveter
at the Morse Dry Dock in Brooklyn in
1916.
Renno Burle, a designer OF women's
clothes who earned sSJ a week In the
employ OF George G. Helmerdinger. l4l
Madison avenue. but bought no Liberty
bonds. was committed to the Mercer
county Jail at Trenton to await investi-
CATION. He did not register. He was
born in Hanover, but went to Paris as a
young man and learned his trade. He
says he considers himself French and
did not think il necessary to register.
Ernest Lange, a waiter who has been
working at the Hotel Fulton in Seventy
first street and living at 156 East Forty
seventh street, became angry when a
sailor arrested him. and expressed his
opinion of the sailor in violent language.