New Britain herald., 1919-11-15

it seems to me that the Muck case ought to be looked into more care fully" I said.
 My CO-WOrker was rather angry at my remark and shouted:
 But we have no right to hold Dr. Muck under the Espionage Act when he is not German subject" The old proverbial pussy was then and there let out of the bag. That was the reason for Dr. Muck's 11th hour revelation of his Swiss citizenship.
 The third agent, who was captain in the United States army, sided with me end after the German sympa- thizer had left for the night we con- Vcrsed on the subject and came to the conclusion that the American people were sound asleep to the real char acter of the peril at their door
 \ Royal Battle Within the Dept.
 For sometime afterwards the Muck issue was handled by Captain Clifford, under the direct supervision of our chief, Mr. .Kelleher one of the smart est and most patriotic men in the Service. We owe the arrest of some of the kaiser's most trusted agents in this country to his energy and zeal.
 A royal battle started then within our office, as an outcome of which Muck and many of his ilk were ar rested. The agent who had defended Dr. Muck, and had upheld his claim that he was a Swiss subject, was dis missed from the department, and at last q more encouraging atmosphere began to blow through our office, en- cOura ging as far as the vigil of the Espionage Act was concerned. Indeed Dr. Muck was so displeased with the dismissal of two of his friends in our midst that he writes in one of his, letters addressed to his young sweetheart:
 " :. It is a sad fact, that since the dismissal of the two decent and hOnora ble officials in the local De- partment of Justice about If days ago and their replacement by Rathom- men, my position here is ten times worse than it ever was; and the last New York scandal has made the whole pack still more rabid.''
 The Dr. Muck question before this time had become a live issue over the country. Special police protection was necessary in order to prevent riots during the Symphony performances, and to the everlasting shame of many of our so-called Americans, he seemed to have a numerous following in the ranks of our "upperlings," and hys- terical "artists." Those empty-headed wOuld-be lovers of music who pro- tested from house tops that art was international, failed to take into con- sideration that these pro-Kaiser Ger mans had never respected it as such. They ignored the fact that these Ger man artists were nothing by "dump- ings" of Germany in order to squeeze out the native aspirants.
 Laxity of V. s. District Attorneys. Just about this time we learned that Dr. Muck was in correspondence i with a young lady of Boston, Miss Adele Marvin.
 If this information, instead of be- ing lost in some obscure file in Wash ington, had been at the proper time brought to our attention in Boston, we would have put pr. Muck in the internment camp many months be- fore we actually did. At last we were on the sure road to secure document tary evidence, proving that Dr. Muck was 9 German and that he was a dangerous propagandist and a conf dant of the Kaiser himself. We had already presented to our United States district attorneys the fact that at sL house recently vacated by pr. Muck on the Main shore a complete wireless instrument had been discovered. We had also repeatedly warned the United States district attorneys that this house was located very near the house