The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-05-15
PRESIDENT ORDERS
THE |NTERNMENT OF
COUNT M|NOTTO
Son-in-Law of Louis Swift, the Pack
or, Arrested
ON PRESIDENTIAL WARRANT
Man Born in Berlin Suspected Under
Proclamation Relating to
Alien Enemies
ON PRESIDENTIAL WARRANT

Chicago, May 13.-Count James Mi
Eotto, sonin-law Of Louis f. Swift,
the. packer, was taken into Custody
mere late this afternoon by deputy
United States marshals on a presiden.
tia! warrant ordering his intcrnmcn...
A hahcas corpus action was inmc..
diatcly instituted III behalf OF the
count and ne WIS taken before Fed.
eral Judge Carpenter and released on
$4,000 bond. Hearing Of arguments
on the habeas proceedings was sci
for May 20.
Under Alien Proclamation
Washington May 13.-Attornes-
General Gregory authorized the issu.
ance of presidential warrant for and
the intcrnmcnt of Count James Mi,
MOTTO under the Presidents proclama.,
tlon relating to German alien enc
mics.
Action was taken by the Attorney
Genera latter long consideration o1
the case, which was referred to him
after the department o. labor had re.
fused to order the deportation of the
count
In the meantime the count had beer
at liberty on bail.
Tangled Natonalitics
Count Minotto, son-in-law oi
Louis f. Swift, the Chicago packer. is
a man of such tangled nationalities
that ne comes near being a man with
out country. His father was an
Italian of avowcd pro- German sympa.
| thlcS and his mother was a noted Ger
man actress. He was born in Berlin
and was educated in the banking busi~
ness in Germany.
When the European war broke oui
he was employed in a German bank
in London. He came to the United
| States and took out first naturaliza-
ton papers here, but never completed
the naturalization process. At first he
was openly pro-Gcrman, but when
Italy entered the war, he offered te
return TO his fathers land as an
Italian rcserviSt and was refused f.,
; physical reasons.
Later he offered an ambulance serv-
ice to the Italian government. hui
this gift was also refused.
Sought Commission
Then he sought a commission in the
United States, but his German citizen.
ship prevented. He offered his scrv-
ices to the Bureau Of Naval lntellf
gencc to become United States sc,
crct agent. but officials suspected him
OF bad faith, and did not accept him,
He has associated with society pco,-
pie in England, the United States and
Argentina. He was visitor at the Ger.
man embassies in London and Wash.
lngton, was friend of Count Lux
burg, the now notorious German
charge at BucnoS Aires, and alSc Of
Nj. CaillauX, former French premier
recently arrested Oh a charge of trea.
son, and with Nine. Caillaux when
they were in South America.
Entertained McAdoo
Secretary McAdoo was cn, n,ertained
by Count Minotto when the secretary
visited Bucnos Aires two years ago.
The count at that time represented
New York bank in Argentina. bun pre-
viously while acting as agent for a.as-
other New York bank had been rt.-
called because it was feared his pro.
German sympathics would commi, the
bank to improper policies.
Mysterious Office
The Bureau of Naval Intelligence,
whose request that Minotto be dcport-
cd was refused by the Department of
Labor on the ground that Minotto had
neither broken any United States laws
nor threatened to do so, cited as facts
supporting its suspicion that the count
was German agent, and employed
private secretary, although his sal
airy as representative of the New
York bank was comparatively small
Mnotto's friends explained that his
wife was wealthy and that consc.
quently he was not forced to live on
his business income
The Department of Labor referred
the case to the Department Of Justice
declaring that if Mnotto was as dan.
gcrouS as the Bureau Of Naval Intcll;,
gcncc maintained, he might bc in.
termed.
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