Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-12
Arrested
 as Alien Enemies
FORMER OFFICERS OF TRANS ATLANTIC TRUST CO.,, NEW YORK
ARE IN SEPARATED JAILS
Julius Pirnitzer, Former President of the Trust Company, Has Found His Way Into Public Notice on Several Occasions.

New York, July 11-Julius Pirnit- ger, former president of the Trans Atlantic Trust Company, and three other officers of the corporation were arrested today as dangerous enemy aliens. When they were taken into custody it was disclosed that the bank was taken over several weeks ago and re-orsanized by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian.
 The other men arrested were An drew Gomary, Pirnitzer's private sec retary: Guido Non Steer. a former of ficer of the bank. who is said to have Cnce been an under secretary in the Austro- Hungarian cabinet, and pr. lsidore Szekelz advertising manager of the bank. The prisoners. after be- ing interrogated, were sent to widely separated jai1s for the night.
 Has Attracted Public Notice. Pirnitzer has found his way into ! public notice on several occasions. In December. 1913, according to press l despatches from Budapest, he crossed | the ocean to fight Emile Zerkowitz | former correspondent of the Hungar- 1 ian department Of commerce in New l York city, whom he accused of con spring to deprive him of his position
 in the bank. The ouel was bloodless
 hut, according to the despatches. Pir- l nitzer refused to shake hands witt Zerkowitz.
 In 1915 Pirnitzer caused the arres' of Alexander and Hector Condos l newspaper publishers of Bridgeport | Conn.,. who were described as power!
 among the Hunsarians in this country
 Pirnitzer charged that the man haC
 conspired to eXtort 5000 from him
 They admitted when examined by DO lice inspectors that they had been pre-
 pared to publish in their newspape
 the assertion that the Trans Atlanti
 Trust Company was the agent here O
 the Central Powers, and that throug1
 it Lieutenant Robert Fay and othe
 piotters had obtained funds to carr
 on their work.
 Denied Previous Accusations. ; They also declared, according to tn police, that Pirnitzer was a foreig !, agent and head of an informatio service that had attracted the atten , tion of the United tSates secret ser ; vice. Pirnitzer denied all the accusa tions. While the Condos brother l were said by the police to have ad mitted that they had been employe
 to, wage a crusade against Pirnitzer
 bank, they denied that the charge
 they had meant to publish were with , cut foundation in fact
 It was stated in connection wit I these charges that Pirnitzer had lon Teen connected with the Austro- Hur
 garian consular service. It was als
 stated that the bank handled abol l sixty per cent Of the SS000 realize l from the Austro- Hungarian war loa Q f1oated in this country in 1914, ar . about S1.0O0,0OO of the German loa for which subscriptions were take :, the same year.
 Anticipated Arrival of Deutschland : Ten days before the German sul t marine Deutschland bobbed up e Baltimore, Pirnitzer and the Tran
 Atlantic Trust company caused cOl t siderable comment by the publicatit e in the Hungarian daily, Amerik : Magyar, of an advertisement amour $. ing that the bank would forwa r money to Hungary by the submarir n 100 kronen for $14," and would ma.
 age to get receipts by the same way. F. we have no longer to fear fro $ the injustice of England" continu if the advertisement "The money fo = warded is no more in danger" Q A similar advertisement appeared q little later but in the second instan
 reference was made to shipment h steamers as well as by submarines