The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-07-23
TeutOn Bandits j
Arrest Ends a
Daring Career


ons had returned. He organized his
| little army and had his little scrim-
images with such opposition as pre-
scented itself In his way. With 120
of his band on automobile trucks he
went to Observation-Disclosures for
the manufacture of violins-disarmed
the home guards after q little fight,
and then liberated the Sparticlst 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 breatbed out
threatenings OF slaughter. His procla-
nations teemed with expressions like
twill be shot"
Hoelz delighted In strong talk, IN
bandit; but he was not half so bad as
his talk. In fact, there was a quality
of mercy In his rascallties. Once he
had the Munich-Berlln 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 1t.
One Of the guests was correspond
ent of Leipsic newspaper. They ar
rested him and took him Off to Falken-
stein because they found on him a
notebook containing the substance of n
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 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
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 a 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 a mar
ried man, the notice concluded, and he
"energetically forbade" this lndiscrm-
mate love-maklng.
While Hoelz was amazing all Ger
many and the world with the holiness
of his robberies and impressments, the
Saxon government was equally the
cause Of amazement through Its SUI
plneness. Herr Gradnauer, the social
list minister-presldent 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
the government for troops. AS late as
April 3. about two weeks after Hoelz
began his "reign," Gradnauer was still
calling upon the various faction COM
mittees" that had been formed in the
larger towns Of the Vogtland to "see
to 1t 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
Ised no troops should Re sent for the
present, and was depending upon the
Chemnitz executive committee (of the
socialist organizations) to negotiate