The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-07-16
TeutOn Bandits
Arrest Ends a
Daring Career

ons had returned. He organized his
little army and had his little scrim.
images with such opposition as pre-
sented itself in his way. With 100
Of his band on automobile trucks he
went to Observation-Disclosures for
the manufacture Of violins-slisarmed
the home guards after little fight.
and then liberated the Sparticist pris-
oners in Jail there. incidentally he
carried off 100000 marks, "as pledge
that the arms would be delivered up"
he said.
Made Threats Of Slaughter.
Wherever he went he breathed out
threatenings Of slaughter. His procla.
nations teemed with expressions like
twill be shot,
Hoelz delighted in strong talk, in
giving himself the airs. Of a bloody
bandit: hut he was not half so bad as
his talk. In fact, there was Il quality
Of mercy in his rascalities. Once he
had the Munich-Berlin express train
held up and searched by his band, but
they harmed nobody and apparently
took nobody's purse. though one re-
port said so. They were evidently
looking for somebody. and when they
heard that several passengers who
looked suspicious had got off and
gone to the leading hotel they went
there and searched it.
One of the guests was correspond.
ent of a Leipsic newspaper. They ar.
rested him and took him off to Falken.
stein because they found on him a
notebook containing the substance of a
news report which he had telephoned
to his paper. In the castle at Falken-
stein he found two young university
men who had been held in captivity
for more than n week, waiting for
some kind friend to pay the 10000
marks ransom demanded for them by
HOelz.
Warned Tender Hearts.
AS Hoelz grew in fame and renown
as an outlaw he found that he was
touching many tender female hearts
with his deeds Of courage. He was
flooded with letters from women that
annoyed his virtuOus soul. Finally, he
had printed in heavy type in the Falk-
enstein Anzeiger n notice warning "all
unmarried and married women per-
sons. upon pain Of heavy fines and
the publication of their names, against
tempting him with love letters and less
obvious allurements." He was mar
ried man. the notice concluded, and he
Theoretically forbade" this indiscrim-
mate love-making.
While Hoelz was amazing all Ger
many and the world with the boldness
Of his rObberies and impressments, the
Saxon government was equally the
cause of Amusement through its SUI
pineness. Herr Gradnauer, the social
list minister-president of Saxony, at
first did nothing whatever against
HOelz. and later explained that he had
hoped the wOrkmen would themselves
take measures to restore order or
failing in that, would come and ask
sAO AOA lAOORSs AS Iulc us
April 3, about two weeks after Hoelz
began his "reign," Gradnauer was still
calling upon the various "action com
mittees" that had been formed in the
larger towns Of the Vogtland to ''see
to it that the unconstitutional state of
things instituted by the communist
Hoelz in the vogtland be remedied as
speedily as possible" If this were not
done in the very next days, this pro.
nOuncement went on, the government
would be compelled in the general in
terests Of the state to restore legal
conditions with all the power at its
disposal"
Workmen Ordered to Arm.
At the same time news from Chem
nitz. which lies near the vogtland. was
to the effect that Gradnauer had prom
Used no troops should be sent for the
present, and was depending upon the
Chemnitz executive committee (of the
socialist organizations) to negotiate