Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-23
GERMAN PRINTER IS
.NABBED AFTER TIP
FROM HIS EMPLOYER
MAN WHO SANG DEUTSCHLAND
UBER ALLIES" FAILS IN AT
KEN FROM TRAIN AT JOLIET.

When Louis Grueter, German
printer. told his employer, Editor Carl
Zwanzig he was going to quit his
job. he thought all he had to do was
pack up his kit, inform his wife TO
get ready for a long journey and then
go In most of his plans Grueter was
right, but in the long journey part he
erred ignominiously
Instead OF going on an expedition
to some part Of the country where
fancy attracted him Louis and his
wife Elsie, are in the custody OF Hin
ton G. Cabaugh, head of the Ameri-
can secret service for the Great Lakes
district The couple were nabbed
Saturday night at Joliet after they
/ had taken flight from Ottawa, where
1 Grueter has been employed as a type
setter by Mr.. Zwanzig since early last
spring They are being held for trav-
cling without government permit.
Both are registered, but brand new
trunk they carried with them caused
ofiicialdom considerable suspicion.
This suspicion resolved itself into a
careful scrutiny of Grueter and his
past Until contents Of the trunk are
| closely examined no official statement
will be given out by Mr.. Clabaugh
Both the man and his wife admit be
ing alien enemies, the wife by virtue
of her marriage to Grueter, altho she
is a native Of Texas OF mixed Ameri
can and German parentage. Gruetel
Is native Of Germany and has never
taken out his first papers.
Attention was first attracted tC
Grueter as a suspicious character BY
Mr. Zwanzig himself While Gruetel
worked over the type case in Mr.
Zwanzig's La Sale County Herold of
fee. he hummed airs of the Father
land until they began to wear upoi
the editor. One Of his favorite songs
had the music supplemented with the
wording. 1t was Deutschland Ube
Allies which in Americanisms mean,
Germany over All" Der Wacht An
Rhein. or die Lorelei" would no
have been so bad but when Deutsch
land Uber Allies emitted on Grueter
cultural tones ii was more than Mr.
Zwanzig could bear up under Will
comfort The result was he nOtifet
the police to be on the lookout 70
Grueter A close watch was KEEP
/ on the enemy alient, and Saturda,
; night, thru Mr.. Zwanzig, "A tip was Sc
/ cured that Grueter and his wife, VIII,
= is only 2l years Old. were preparing
. to leave town. They left here on on
- of the early evening east bound train
r Trace Of them was had at the depo
! and Immediately word was sent t
Chicago TO be on the lookout for tn
0 couple. Joliet was notified to arres
p them if they came thru there The
4 were taken from the train at Jolie
n and are being held pending furthe
, investigation.
i Grueter came here from Texas las
70 spring. He secured employment o
y the Herold and made his home a
- 400 Congress street, where he Obtain
' ed rooms for himself and wife. TIL
>, earning only an ordinary salary, h
9 always seemed pretty well supple
;, with funds. Grueter is 32 years ol
i and claims that he registered in Te
u as as an enemy alien. His wife
n registered in Ottawa. Easy trace ,
them was had thru the woman's d
4 scripton. An affiction to the eve
q both OF which are badly crossed. ga,
4, the Joliet police an easy chance
n. identify her