The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-22
Rmtelen, CermanyS Master Mind
in i. S. During War, Is Free A gain

special to 1ho world.
NEW YORK. Jan. 21.-Franz
lNhte'en' captain in the imperial
navy, supreme agent OF the Father
land in the United States in 1915
and object throughout the war OF
the extraordinary soliCitude Of tho
German government, ended "A short
time ago at tho federal penitcntiary.
Atlanta. Ca. the service OF three
sentences aggrcgdtlng hfty months
| imposed on him for conspiracy to
prevent the shipment Of munitions
to the allies, for the fraudulent se-
curing " a passport and for con.
spiraCy 10 place bombs abroad
steamships In the trans Atlantic
! trade, all committed before We
entered tho war.
The release of this arch -piotter
against American neutrality came
| as the result OF executive clcmenCy
exercised on the recommendation Of
Attorney General Palmer
Rintelen, who had lived I'm New
York from 1906 to 1909 AZ repre-.
sentative OF the Disconto Gcscll-
schaft. the second most powerful
bank in the empire. was ordered
back when the spring OF 1915 made
| Iit clear that American popular
opinion could not be stirred to the
point OF breaking down tho block
adc Of Germany or of stopping the
| Flow of munitions from American
factories to the allied fronts.
His order Was Observed.
kinteicn came not as banker
| hut As "a captain Lieutenant of the
imperial navy. lie was "on duty" in
| the territory OF "A friendly nation. lie
held authority paramount In all
| things, and superior In some. TO
| thnf ,f Ap,hpsga1,r
By the middle OF April. 1915.
| Rintclcn was at work. known
chiefly as FREDERICK Hansen and
with his headquarters at the Trans
atlantic Trust company. William
ana Liberty streets. ho. act about
simultaneously planning for the
shipment Of foodstuffs into Ger
| many despite the blockade. launch
ing a publicity campaign OF amity"
between America and the Father
| land, starting strikes that should tic
up munitions works. seeking to
| bring about war between Mexico
and the United states, schcmiug for
| the placing Of bombs on steamships
! bearing supplies to tho allies and
| giving thought as free moments
came to the shipment OF arms to such
| places as liayti whore trouble for
this country might be provoked.
To sum II up in this way maxi
the program sound fautastically
impossible, but this is just what
| Rintelen undertook In four months
he was compelled to admit that II
could not be done, and he started
| homcward to propose a more fan
tastic program still--nothing less
than the financing of a project for
! buying up all the munitions that all
| the factories of the United States
could turn out. the purchases TO bs
piled in the fields or dumped In tho
sea: anything so that they might be
prevented from reaching the hands
| Of tho allies.
Forged Passport
! This homcWard Journey was tho
beginning Of the end of Rintelcn.
| Failing to get a passport a. Edward
! Y. Gates, an American citizen, he
| forged the name Of Edward Y.
Gasche to ono granted II Swiss. I'm
der this he sailed August on the
Noordam, TO be held up at Falmouth
hy the British and sent TO a detcn-
tion camp. with Rintelcn on this
Journey was Andrew u. Mcloy a
promoter. of No. 81 Liberty street
Being an American citizen, arriving
September 80 on the Nicuw Amstor-
dam. The following day federal
grand jury began to dig into the
record Rintelen had left behind
him.
First Of all, It heard from Moloy
the story of tho forged passport
indictments resulting on October rs
! pelVing deeper tho grand Jury