New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Turned u. S. Colors
Into Teuton Stripes;
Seized as Enemy
Germans Open Hatred for
America Starts Him Tow
ard Prison Camp

His hatred for the red, white and
blue and his love for the red, white
and black of the German empire may
result in the internment of Otto Boil
man, an enemy alien, of $50 West i22d
Street, who was taken in custody yes
terday by agents of the Department of
Justice.
Bollman was employed by an optical
manufacturing concern in Thirty
fourth Street. He painted a black
stripe over the blue stripe on pencil
of another employe and, holding up the
pencil with the German colors on it,
said: "Those are the only colors worth
living under"
He was brought to the Enemy Alien
Bureau, where he was interrogated by
Captain Roger B. Hull, acting chief,
who sent him to the Mercer County
jail pending action on recommends
tlon for his internment. He will prob
ably be sent to Oglethorpe prison camp
next week for the duration of the war.
Among his effects were found a mass
of German writings for use as propa-
ganda, two German flags and many pict-
ures of the Kaiser and other junkers.
Blueprnts and maps were also found
which he could not account for. He
was born in Saxony and educated in
technical school in Thuringia. He has
been in this country since 1907, but has
never taken out citizenship papers, and
boasted that he had no intention of
doing so.
One Failed to Register
Paul Markowitz, alias Paul Mercer,
was examined by Captain Hull yester-
day when he was brought to the bureau,
charged with failure to register in the
alien registration. He was born in
lived the greater part Of his life in
Germany. He has been working as
steward in Jersey City club. Since
the outbreak of the war, under the
alias of Mercer, Markowitz has trav
eled extensively in South America
China and Japan. Pending an investi-
CATION, he was committed to the Ray
mond Street Jail
Franz Won Holz, alias Frank Vollner,
a Bavarian, who had been paroled after
serving sixty days in the Essex County
Jail, was brought to the bureau yester-
day charged with changing his address
without notifying the Federal author
tiles He was paroled to work on farm
ago. He left last week without com
municating with the Alien Bureau.
Captain Hull sentenced him to ninety
days in the Essex County Jail.
Olor David Hornfeldt, who had been
working in Hartford, Conn, as gar
dener, was apprehended yesterday as
he was about to sail for Sweden,
charged with making hostile remarks
against tho United States and the mill
tary establishment. He claims Swed-
ish citizenship, and had obtained pass
ports as a Swede.
According to the Federal authorities
Gus and insidious form of propaganda
among the foreign born of Hartford.
He said that the United States had
committed more international crimes
than Germany, and that nine-tenths of
the troops sailing for France did not
want to 60, but were being forced
aboard the transports. He boasted that
when he arrived in Europe he would
tell the people the truth about America
Hornfeldt was arralgned before
United States Commissioner Hitchcock
yesterday afternoon and waived exam
ination. At the suggestion of Garrett
Cotter, Assistant United States At
torney, he was turned over to Marshal
Mccarthy, and will be taken back to
Hartford to-day, where he will be tried
for violation of the espionage act.
Joseph Tolpen, twenty-five, of 164
Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn, was held
without bail in the Harlem court yes
terday by Magistrate Simpson when he
was arraigncd, charged with having
said "To hell with Uncle Sam! /
won't work for him."
Tolpen came to this country six years
ago from Austria and had taken out his
first citizenship papers He was ar
rested on the complaint of Daniel Fox,
OF 207 East Ninety-ffth Street, who
charged him with the disloyal remark.
Charles Causen, fftythree, waiter,
of II Third Avenue, is being detained
by the Federal authorities and may
later be charged with violation of the
espionage act. He was arrested yester-
day when depositing pamphlets in let
ter boxes along Eighth Avenue near
Forty-ninth Street.
These pamphlets were designed to
spread Teutonic propaganda, and con-
tanned many slogans on behalf of Ger
many. One read, Nothing German is
poison" Another, "The German pur-
pose has been misrepresented." The
matter is being investigated by the Mil
itary Intelligence Bureau. Causen said
he was employed to deliver the pam
phlets.