New Britain herald., 1919-11-28
(Authorized by the Attorney General
 of the United States.) t Copyright 1919, by the International
 News Bureau, Incl ,..
(Contillued)


 The confidence which many of Boston's old families had in Dr. Muck is demonstrated by letters in the possession of the department of justice. which show that before Am erica entered the war some of these people wers sympathetic with the central powers, and expressed this sympathy by sending 10 Dr. Muck subscriptions to German activities. It is clear that the symphony leader ex- erted great influence over these peo- pie. It would, of course, be, unfair to quote letters written to Dr. Muck in this connection, since without ques- ton these repre- sentativeS of Boston's best familie are repenting of their gullibility and the ease with which they fell into the Muck trap. t
 There is a letter from. one of, the most distinguished citizens in tMassa.- chusetts, a man whoe Am ericanisn is unquestioned, who was induced by Dr. Muck and Mrs. Muck to contri- bute money anonymously to the Ger man societies. This money was con- tributed during January, 1917. at q time when it was evident that tela- tions were to be broken off between the United States and Germany.
  was under suspicion. and his activi- ties were closely watched by the Bos- ton office of the department of jus- tice. He took into camp two of the secret service agents whose reia- uons were so friendly that it caused their dismissal. There is evidence to show that following the discharge of these agents by the department of justice, Dr. Muck became suspicious and destroyed many letters which he thought might duplicate him.
 Dr. Muck's apartment in Boston was a meeting place of German sym pathizers. This is corroborated by the following letter written to an American girl at New York, post marked March 27, 1916:
 Conference At His House.
 "This was again a regular Sunday y for me, as usual. From II until 6 I had a political conference at my house with five gentlemen, among them the first secretary of the em- bassy at Washington, the local Ger man consul, captain of the Kron- prinzessin Cecilie, etc. At 1 o'clock we had a little luncheon of throe- quarters of an hour, the whole re- maining time devoted to documents, reports and records. You can well realize that I was more dead than alive after they had finally gone. T took taxi and drove around outside for an hour; I was too tired to walk and, just imagine, I fell fast asleep during the ride.
 "The whole day while the gentle men were with me, two men, one Of whom I know positively to be de- tective, walked back and forth in front of my house, one from right to left and the other in the opposite di- rcction.
 About 5 o'clock I went out and had some fun with them, and when the one of them whom I knew to be a detective sneaked up again, I said to him: You must be very tired and hungry: will you not take seat hl the hall and have something to eat and drnk?' He stared at me, hor- ribly embarrassed. Eauttered few in loafing bum.
 KARL"
 Conference With Bernstorff.
 When pr. Muck was faced with the above letter he smiled and said that it was simply a nonsensical state ment which he had written for the fun of 1t, but the department had the goods on him, and the following s letters made it evident beyond any question of doubt that he was in very close touch with the German embas- sy in Washington. For instance, he t11w1w7 Y1EX7 Ex1 W w2E7 ex1Ex1E17E1