The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-15
GAMBLING HOUSE
. HIDES ENEMY SPIES
Police Raid DisclOses Evil
dence, Turned Over to
Federal Officials
ONE MAN HELD AS
DANGEROUS ENEMY
Papers Show That He Was Employed
by the German Foreign Office and
Had Been Sent to This Country on an
Important Mission.
Important Mission.

NEW YORK. March l5.-Infotmation
that may lead to the disclosure OF i'm
poltant spy activities in New York was
obtained by detectives OF Inspector COST
CANS staff in a raid upon an alleged
gambling establishment, the location OF
which is withheld pending further inyesti-
gation by Inspector Costigan's men, the
other being in an apartment in BAN
bridge street, Brooklyn, where, the de-
tactives say, they found d complete gam
bling equipment.
At this latter place Detectives HEX
son and Demarest served subpoenas on
two men describing themselves as Joseph
Linde So years old, Of Ssh cambridge
street, Brooklyn, and Max Burton, 81 years
old. Of 1924 Lexington Avenue The sub
poenas called for their appearance before
Justice Freschi, at the John Doe gam
bling inquiry, on Saturday.
Detective Hickson said he tested the
meut by taking several bets over the
ltIt llloI-Nf tA4e VI llltlil btllt7 4lpllI q
man who described himself as Gala
han and who wanted to lay $50 on Eddie
T. in the second race at Hot Springs
Last nights report showed that Eddie I.
won his race.
| At the other nlace, Of which the adj
| dress is withheld it is understood the
| detectives met certain persons from whom
! they obtained statements as we'll as docu.
|
show that this establishment was the
rendezvous oil German spies. MI the ma
terial was turned over to District Attor,
ney Swami, who got into touch immedi-
ately with the federal authorities Dis,
trict Attorney Swami declined to make
any OF the details public on the ground
that premature publicity would only tend
to defeat the activities OF the fedora
authorities
This much can say he stated, 1--WE
feel we are on the trail OF some spy worl
in which We think the Government will bt
Immensely interested '..s.. ......
William Andreae OF 2s3 West Eighty
fifth street. an employee Of the A. & b
Export and Import corporation of :
| Wall street, was locked up in the Tonbs
for investigation as dangerous enem,
alien.
Evidence was turned over to Assistau
United States District Attorney Rober
! T. Stephenson. indicating that Andrea
had been employed by the German for
/ eiGn Office before and since the begnnin
of the war in 1914 and that he had beef
sent by the German foreign Office on
, mission to this country in 1916
Andreae was employed in a bank il
| DgrIg 0Ba9vr9r,fr -, Al,
States district Attorney, but obtaine
leave of absence aud returned to Ger
many few days before the war began
H is alleged to have made his way t
} this country in 1916 by means OF neutra
, passports on mission to ship oils ,hroug
{ neutral countries to Germany.
Andreae is said to have had close rel
tions III this country with Hugo Schmid
: and Adolph Pavenstedt, the German banl
ers now informed, and to have a wild
mountaineering in this country.
An indictment was returned by tn
y federal grand jury against George Gustav
lenatIus Flynn. graduate OF the Dewitt
Clinton high school, who sought to il
y terrupt a patriotic meeting at AIadiso
81 Square on March :, on the charge Of vi,
Is lating the espionage act by attempting I
hinder recruiting
e. An indictment was also returned again.
$. johannes HendricE van Werllhoven char
III ing HIM with violating the trading wit
the enemy act. Van Werkhoven, who
81 an assistant purser on the Dutch lin,
n. Nieuw Amsterdam, is accused Of bringir
nd securities into this country from Holar
or without submitting them to the Cover
ar ment supervision required by the tradil
M wit N the enemy art
m, William Wallace. ir., who is in char
WI of the new bureau at the federal buldin
which is handling the enemy alien probe
,rI- in this city, said it had been discover
Nv. that number Of Germans and Austria