The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-12-24

our honor, integrity and loyalty for a
few paltry bars of English gold. Wa
have sold and thrown away the peace
and freedom for which our forefathers.
fought and died bravely. The AMERI-
CAN CITIZEN has become half TORY
and has not got the courage to fight
against the British blockades. the
seizure OF American mails and the de-
struction4of the stars and stripes on
the oceans. GOD OWNS THE OCEANS,
NOT ENGLAND GOD BLESS GER
MANY. GOD SAVE IRELAND. Will
liam Won Petrich."
Knew of Such Fund.
Won Petrich's knowledge of the 3d.
OO0,000,000 fund, said to have been
raised in this country to aid German
propaganda and spent by Won Bern
storff, is shown in the following let
ter written to a woman in Harold,
Florida, who had been kind to him
Evangelical Luthern charches In be-
half of the German nation hold today
prayer day. II there is a God-and
a God Of Love and Justice, he will
surely answer the prayers Of these
humble people who hold so strongly to
the Fatherland and the present ruler,
who is loved by every one, that even
the poorest have helped to swell the
war fund to S3,OO0,OOO,O0O in the last
year. Once German, always a Ger- |
man.
The records shows that Won Petricr /,
was born in Germany in the year 1885,
at Stettin and that he attended the !,
Schiller academy. At the age of IL
years he shipped on the Hamburg->
America steamer Pennsylvania as
steward. He made trips to Dover and
New York on this boat and later {
shipped on the Henrietta Woerman OF. /
the Woerman line making trips to A. |
rica. He later came to New York city /
on the Pennpsylvania arriving hered
about 1905.
Applied for Civil Service Job.
Won Petrich made civil service ap-.i
plication in which he said he was
married and had been aboard the
Pennsylvania until 1910. It was found
that he was not married and had been
in America since 1905. In New, York na
made his headquarters in house own
ed by a Mrs. Brandt on ti0th street
and. worked on Grand street near the
river. He stayed in New York until
1906 and then went to Summit, New
Jersey, later going to Milwaukee. Wis.
In the latter place he ostensibly
wrote for magazines and visited all
important nearby cities where he gain
ed mucn 1D1OfHaLlOD. lie UVeQ LDer6
with German named Shultz on Fifth
avenue near the court house. He
claimed Shultz to have been one of his
witnesses for naturalization papers.
He claimed that he received his final
papers in 1906. but could not explain
the fact that it requires i've years res
dence to receive these
1t was found that he probably OBJ
tained the papers through fraud, since
On the date he claimed to have re-
seived them, the subject was in New
Jersey. 1t was later found that his
papers had born anotf-
.r's name, which had been removed
)y chemicals, and Won Petrich's name
written In by his own handwriting.
Sees Middle, West.
From Milwaukee he went to Chi
,ago where he worked for Marshal
Field. After gaining much infOrma-
ion there he engaged in handling
laims for a. firm in Dayton. Ohio, and
raveled in Michigan and Indiana
later he came south and handled
ieorgia, Florida and Alabama for the
anne firm, visiting all, the principal
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