Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-24
HENKEL AND FOUR
HUN COMPANIONS
ESCAPE; | CAUGHT
Daring German Naval Captain
for the Fourth Time EVadeS
Guards, and With OtherSI
Gets Away Safely

L. ]. Bailey, department of justice
agent for this district, was busily
spreading the net of the United States
secret service Tuesday in an effort 20
capture four Germans who escaped from
the internment camp at Fort Oglethorpe
some time Monday. A reward of $50
each has been offered for information
leading to the arrest of the men.
At the ) o'clock roll call Monday aft
ernoon Arnold Henkel, Jacob c. f. Breu-
er, Robert Beese, William Wegnee and
Richard Luders were reported absent
from the Oglethorpe internment camp.
few neatly clipped wires in the fence
which inclosed the reservation revealed
Tuesday morning the method Of escape.
One of the men, Luders, was caught
on Missionary ridge early Monday aft
ernoon, dressed in an army shirt, over
alls and a cap, indicating that the men
had had outside help in their escape.
Officers in Atlanta, having had deal
ings of old with Henkel, say they feel
sure that the daring eX-off1cer of the
Prince Eitel Frederick led his COM
panions in the venture which has earn
ed them freedom for time at least.
HenkePs Daring Career
Arnold HenkeI has had career which
has been a source of wonder and con-
slant trouble to government officials.
Interned first at Norfolk, the powerful
ly-bullt, quick-thinking German naval
officer, fresh from participation in the
last thrilling cruise of the Eitel Fred
erick, escaped from his barracks. Re-
moved from Norfolk to Oglethorpe he
was the ringleader in a delivery of
prisoners there, and, after his recap
ture, he was sent to Fort Mcpherson,
where he planned and effected the es-
cape of himself and nine other men,
bers of the Eitel Frederick's crew. HI
was taken again in the woods near Sur
rency, Ca, and sent to Fort Oglethorpe,
from which place he has now made his
fourth successful evasion OF prison
guards.
Secret service men who have helped
in the guarding of Henkel after his va
rious escapes say that he is most af-
fable man. When he was surrounded
in the woods near Surrency he shrugged
his shoulders good-naturedly and enter
tanned his captors with the story OF
how Hans Berg, another fugitive from
Fort Mcpherson, had done him dirt"
during the departure from the fort.
Going out one at a time through an
underground passage, the Germans had
agreed TO signal back by Juggling
string when the way was clear for the
next fellow. Henkel says that Berg
was so lTlBnleneu ne ran Oll "llliOuN
signaling back. leaving Henkel and two
others to SILVER in the passage for
twenty minutes before they guessed
what had happened.
The description given. by the depart
ment of justice for help in running
down the five escaped Germans is:
Arnold Henkel, 35 years old, feet
inches tall, dark complexion, gray eyes,
$50 pounds in weight and speaks Eng
lish well.
Jacob c. F. Breuer, SO years old,
feet 9R inches tall, dark complexion,
gray eyes and $50 pounds in weight.
Robert .Beese, 20 years old, feet
inches tall. fair complexion, blue eyes
and 145 pounds in weight.
William Wegnee, "a years old, feet
6 inches tall, fair complexion, dark eyes
and $50 pounds in weight.
Richard Luders, 8 feet inches tall,
blond, gray eyes; traced as far as the
Central of Georgia railway and thought
to be somewhere on the Dixie high
way