The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-12
SUSPECTED SPY Is
SEIZED AT HER KEY
Woman Operator Handled I'm
portant Messages to New
Haven Munition Plants.
WAS BORN IN GERMANY
Accused of Giving Purloined
Information to Man to
Forward to Berlin.

Wanda Kreutzinrer. ~. an enemy
alien who as the operator at the New
York end of the Postal Telegraph Cable
Company's day wire to New Haven has
been handling much important Govern
ment business. was arrested yesterday
at her key in the operating room OF the
Postal company on the twelfth floor OF
253 Broadway.
Miss Kreutzinger is accused CT having
during the last ak weeks given informa-
ton acquired from messages that nassed
through her hands to another person for
transmission to Germany. Much q. this
Information had to do with the affairs
of the big munit!on factories Of the New
Haven district. Some OF II was Of
character that would enable spy to fix
the dates OF departures of cargo boats
Bearing munitions from Atlantic ports.
Miss Kreutzinger made a scene. As
two agents Of the Department OF Justice
| passed through the rows Of desks occu-
| pied by men and women operators Miss
KreutIinger saw them coming and hastily
tore up several pieces OF paper contain
| ing notes in long hand.
Woman Makes Admissions.
'Mr. De Woody wants to see you"
said one OF the agents. referring to
Charles De Woody. chief of the New
York Bureau Of Investigation Of the
Department of Justice. The woman pro-
tested against going to the once OF the
| Department Of Justice.
One Of the agents gathered the pieces
OF paper torn by Miss Kreutzinger. They
are to be pasted together.
Miss kreutzinger continued her pro-
tests while descending in the elevator
and In the corridor on the way to the
street In the office Of the Department
OF Justice she was permitted TO wait
while she regained her composure and
then was examined by Chief De Woody,
After the examination Chief De Woody
said that Miss Kreutzinger had admitted
that in 1915 and 1916 and again during
the last six weeks she had been sys-
tematically turning over Information OF
! value to Germany to a man who pro-
fessed to be able to forward It abroad
As to the identity Of this man Chief
De Woody would say nothing. He wa,
reticent about the case as whole fol
"the best of reasons"
With Company sixteen Year,.
The woman is small. her hair Is tin red
with gray and her features are sharp
/ AHouB INC WOTkeTS the fOSthi OpeT-
ating room she was known as "the Ger.
man operator" She speaks English with
a decided accent.
Miss kreutzinger was an expert oper.
ator. Her assignment to the busy New
Haven wire was the company's tribute
to her ability. She was reserved in hei
intercourse with other employees anL
sought no friends among them The
only way in which she appeared to seek
attention from her associates was In the
manner she exhibited the War Saving.
Stamp she made II a habit to buy each
Friday. She lived In 1924 st. Nichola,
avenue, where she rented a room In ar
apartment.
Miss Kreutzinger was born in Posen
Germany. She came to this country
twenty years $50 and entered the servic,
OF the Postal company sixteen years ayt
in Chicago She got a transfer to New
York when the war started.
Chief De Woody sent the spy suspec
to the Enemy Alien Bureau. She wa
committed to Waverley House to avail
investigation by Rufus w. Sprague. chile
OF the bureau. 1t was learned there tina
Miss Kreutzinger had enrolled in tn
. registration OF women enemy aliens