The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-23
GERMAN FORGER
TO STAND TRIAL
Invented Official Papers.
Sold Them to Spies
of Frenchmen

BERLIN, July 15.--With tho or.
rest here OF Erich Anspach, "a. King
OF spies Germany is enjoying "a rev
sensation.
BY means of a poct-llke luly.,,.
/ ton, Anspach forged hundred. n,
| secret documents of German g,,'
/ ernmental officials and sold fU.. r.
/ French secret service agouts.rr,
/ for simple love of forgery
They fell for the Eamc Ike
brick" he says. They even ,.r.oI
/ the bunk ] handed them 2. bs
/ juicier,' so that it would sors. .rs.,
purposes better. | felt my ,..t,
7 flattered by prominent person. and
government agents applying t. me
for information and enjoyed . I'M.
mensely when observed the r..Yit
OF my work. | had caused tension
between governments.
Among the documents this garr,,
dupe supplied practically gratis VIC
lists Of secret personnel" W fbe
military organized security r.nro".
which contained the names ana r.3.
dences Of no less than $1,000 .ar.
sons. Tho names had been taken
from telephone directories. Ua s.,o
offered and was paid for "chrftlar.
tial decrecs Of the minister OF ls.
Tense including mobilization rf4r.
and long lists of officers who Voc
unofficlally registered I'm suprei
documents Of the German army.
He invented a dramatic story
about the secret organizations nf
German students and their courec.
ton with the Erzherger murder as.
serting that all those liable for rr.
units in case OF a new war against
France. Details were given by Mn.
about the activity OF secret recruf.
ing offices for the purpose Of kaor.
ing ready former officers OF the fly.
ing corps and supplying them viii
machines for = surprise attack on
the French occupation army in case
the French should advance furt6s,
into Germany.
y Edited Many Documents.
But Anspach did not content him.
self with giving information of NTH.
tary character, but also edited yol
luminous documents on economic
conditions, as on the German eynrr,
ana import, whore il was Indicted
Ihat the German governmen, nur.
posely concealed the truth aH.u,
conditions I'm Germany in order IA
make efficient propaganda aRa.rs.
the versailles treaty and tho r.r4r.
alton demands.
he Fabricated statistics abou. tho
aliesed unemployment in Germany
ana supplied the real figures. assert.
me that the government only wanted
TO eHade heavier taxation. Tho po1..b
soVetnment availed itself Of Ans.
pach statistics on the rolling stock
or the German railways and the out-
put OF the German coal mines after
the pIebisclte in Upper Silesia.
ne cIeVer!y forged the stamps ~
the government offices and the six.
natures OF wcll-known ministers ana
packed UP his stories by sona real
tacts taken from pamphlets and
DOCKS on one or the other subject so
that nobody ever suspected them M
peing false. Day and night no sa.
over boo ks and papers which he took
Berlin. %
.A,nspach entertained connections
NJ Idris' Brussels, Basle. Warsaw.
haihz' Wiesbaden and Breslau In
order 10 make mis- CLIENTS" absnIu,n'
~ sure that his information cargo
rom authentic sources he pretanJsJ
20 ne councillor OF the mlnig,-g,
et economies, only giving his Ir.
formation on condition that - y.,s
Ssurned within a day. as otherV.-a
ne would get into trouble"
"Confcrs" With Ebert.
Ihe crowning achievement NJ nj.
frauds Is a "conf!denti7l t,l, 20
EBERT, Wirth and Rathenau" n-io- T.,
ne conference at Genoa. in which
I was asserted that the three state.
i'en had discussed details Of p4o
a. .tSota~e the work OF tho allie.
Nt 'h' same time he sold 70 soma
IHent secret Treaty Between
4, Hn'aHu ana Czecho-Slovakia." COM
r,'..s ,,.as hundreds Of clauses and
"a, ~ ueldiI OF military allarra'
hey would be attacked by poro,5 nv
soviet Russia
Years before Anspach turned ,o
'ui.'!cs ne used 10 forge corfific7,ss
~ university honors OF degrees. en-
Pur.hasers TO attend lectures
= seItIe down as teachers or doc
uIS. lie asserts that the borors,r.
gsIce OF doctor was bestowed ar
I'm oy the Bolshevist University O.,
|asdh through the Russia eN-niert.
.otenLary Nig1Or Kopp AT Ra~rIr
tH no, tndt 'he German minister Of ed.
a Ion 49,, granted him n permit ~
NJ ''' t''le IN Germany.
ne career Of Erich Ansracb ,-
omance in itself. '''0'' ''
he was born at IIamme {, ,l,
= : 6ussslan province OF Waetnbali,
S9b. His father was a rst,ra1
who emlCrated ~ ,r.
nited states in 1912. being r.-
SLtpuS drunkard and having smut
prison term. ''''e a''''.
ri. Is Sent TO Hamburg
,hIIch' then s,hooIh0v .r.,
~ NJ" out OF school and sent 10 Ham
= Mnere ne went on board a -oa~-
,'ail.Inhn as a cabin hov. Cornrs,.t,.
ISLi,9'e IoL and IN rags. he one dav w.,
A." up IN the streets OF V3nc.,-.
"E klnd-hoarted American vr,
IL ms passage back 10 German,
.,en re-entered school AVID ,,-
r,ieu ~, lower degree when The wa
,1,',t ~ OUT lie Joined tho army a.,
,yo.,, and was severely wounded
a t'thes While being nurse1
- a HoSp!tal he wrote numerous ,~-
o"r @ which happened to bsrare
Lbo"n TO the minister Of educo,for
,'I, on reading them, granted Ars.
i.m '. special permit to attend Ice.
az ne university.
rne ,n ms living writing for rave.
P.Ls ana Cor short timo IoIorpsa
the starr Of the Tndapo,J.,,,