The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

Famous Cases Recalled
by Recent Bomb Elk
plosion = Tracing
Counterfeiters and
Guarding President,
Bureau sChiefDuties

consideration because they recognized in him
man of education quite uncommon in one
of his occupation.
II was on March g. 1917, that William NJ
Ohiey, then superintendent in charge of the
New York offices of the Department OF JUS
tice received telegram informing him thar
one OF his special agents had tracked down
Fritzen and had him under arrest. ON the
day following our entrance into the world
conflict Fritzen pleaded guilty to the plot
and was sentenced TO Atlanta penitentiary.
II is not the fault of the Department OF
Justice operatives that jury chose 10 az
cept Capt. Hans Tauscher's story OF his in-
nocence of this plot or that the diplomatic
connections of certain men made 1t impossi
BILE to send them to prison. During those
war days the Federal agents frequently
found that after gathering heir evidence
they would be ordered by official Washing
ton to refrain from acting lest some par
ticularly delicate situation arise.
Tue real story behind the arrest In this
city of Nine. Despina Davidovtch Storch.
the Turkish spy DIS the writer of this article
heard 1t confidentally from one in high au-
thority at the time of her arrest, was that
she had succeeded in beguiling the Ambasss-
dor of a neutral power into acting as her uu-
whiting aid.
AS the Government official explained Ss
with the injunction that II was NOT 70 hs
published at the time, this adventures haa
induced the neutral Ambassador - eend
certain letters abroad for her with hie own
official communications, and II was tn this
way that she got much Of her infoyma&3oa
through the vgtlant investigators and a
other German agents in a neutral country.
The reason why the only charge formally
made against this woman was one of "uA-
desirability" was that official Washington
wanted to avert a scandal which would
seriously strain relations between this coun-
try and the one represented by the Ambas
sador involved In the case. Certain persons
in Washington tried their best to beltttlo the
case. but they failed to explain why the State
Department had manifested such a great
interest In II that officials here dared not
make a move without permission from that
department
Chief Flynn's Aids and Their Work
Chief Flynn was transferred from the
secret service to the position OF chief Of
the bureau OF investigation of the Depart
ment of Justice last year, and he has since
surrounded himself with an exceptionally
able ana well trained force, including, in New
York city, George f. Lamb division super
intendent, and Charles J. Sculiy head OF
the red squad" 1t IL upon this force that
the Government now depends for the sup
preston OF plots against the national wei
fare, and II is to them that II looks for the
ultimate apprehension OF the persons re-
sponsihle for the bomb outrages,
There are various other Federal depart
ments which will cooperate whenever asked
to do so. but they have distinct duties OF
their own. The secret service In charged
with the duty of protecting the life of the
President and hunting down counterfeiters
The post office inspectors are entrusted
with the detection and capture OF persons
lie sta
The customs inspectors have their well de
fined duties. and the agents of internal rev
enue have done much TO suppress traffic In
narcotics and the manufacture of moon
shine" whiskey, although at the present time
the work relating TO the prohibition law is
left principally 20 the special force created
for It's enforcement
Persons who expect each and every crime
TO be solved within a few days or weeks
have no understanding of the nature Of the
task that usually confronts the investigator.
quick solution Is not evidence Of superior
detective work. but merely indicates that
things happened to break" favorabiy for
the investigators AT the start.
It Is now thought probable that at least
three Of the men responsible for the bomb
plots Of last year are In Soviet Russia, hav-
ing been deported from the transport Buford
last December A fourth man connected
with these plots hurled himself 10 his death
from a window Of the Department Of JUS
tice offices early this year, but before he did
so the Federal agents had wrung from him
certain important information for which
they had been searching vatply for many
months.
What results this Information viii have
the future must show, just as the past has
shown the results of the relentless pursuit
OF innumerable other criminals. nearly all OF
whom sooner or later were landed behind