New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-08
DISAPPEARS CLAD
IN HIS PAJAMAS
New Haven Pro-GerDlan Not
Found by Federal Officers

New Haven, Jan. e-United States
District Attorney Thomas J. Spellacy
and a squad of eight secret service
men raided the home Of MaximiIian
Won Hoegen, 364 Mansfield street. last
night but Max was not there. Special
Agent Woodell of the Department of
Justice had a warrant for the arrest
of Max but the young pro-German
lawyer, whose insolence begot him a
sound thrashlng Saturday night, was
not TO be found.
Max may be sliding around on the
ice somewhere between here and Pots
dam and cold sliding it is for him be-
cause his sister Polly told Mayor
FITZGERALD yesterday that her wound
ed brother was wearing only his pa
jamas when she last saw him on his
way to the basement to fire up the
furnace. How he got out no one seems
to know. Either he climbed through
the coal window and sneaked out the
back way, or just naturally "vershe-
Wlndet.' The Won IIoegen trousers,
overcoat and haberdashery are all up
in tho bedroom from which Max used
to watch Winchester's. But he and
his ''nacht-kleid' are gone.
Polly didn't get excited about it I'M
til about noon and then she marched
right straight to the state attorneys
Office. my brother has been spirited
away she complained, and she
thought the Winchester people had a
hand in his disappearance. It was
Assistant States Attorney Pickett she
was talking to, but soon after Mayor
FITZGERALD happened in the office, and !
Polly appealed to him.
She told how Max received a notice |
that he would be visited by states
attorneys officers or city attorneys
officers Saturday night, and how Max !
was for doing a little heel and toe !
act in the general direction of Hong /
Kong, but that Mrs. Won Hoegen told !
him to stand his ground.
1t was about nine o'clock last night !
U. S. District Attorney Spellacy, Wood
ell, and y. S. Marshall Hayes with a !
half dozen secret service men jumped |
out, and ran up to the house. They
were admitted, and promptly searched |
the house high and low. 1t contained |
no plans, or discriminating documents
of any kind, SO far as could be learned. |
1--WE a warrat for the arrest Of |
Macmillan Won Hoegen,' said Mr.. |
Woodel. ''It is issued in the name of |
the United States government
But my dear man, Max is missing, |
We don't know where he is replied |
Polly, and Frau Won Hoegen chinned |
in. The men searched every nook and |
Granny in the house, but no signs Of |
Max or the pajamas was found.
Won Hoegen was not spirited away,
as claimed by Polly, his sister. The
men who dragged him out Of his warm !
he was in the house last night, and
were amazed when the secret service
men failed to find him under bed, or
a coal-hod or something. AS mat
ter of fact a Winchester guard. sta
toned on that corner, CHANGED 10 OBJ
serve the house ever since the happen
ing of Saturday night, and is quite
positive that Max hasn't lett, unless
by some underground route. He is in |
hiding, and will be found by the Sc
cret service men. The dragnet is now
spread for him and he will be caught |
On what premises he will be prosecut- |
ed the federal officials refused to state !
last night.
During her visit to the state attor-
neys office yesterday Polly Won Hoe !
gen is said to have admitted that Max
deserves the punishment he got but |
she did not like the way It was adj
ministered. She admitted that she !
was pro- German and that all the |
members of the family were also. She
told the mayor that Max had expect
ed he would be attacked SOME time or .
other and that the family had had |
private detectives at work for them
for some time. She did not say who /
was paying for this expensive practice. |