The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 16, 1920, Page 7, Image 7
CAME OYER AS GERMAN SPY.
Deserter, Formerly Stationed at Camp
Sevier, Makes Disclosures.
New ? York, Dec. 7.?Sensational 1
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disclosures of his mission to tliisj,
country as a spy for the German;,
government were given in alleged j
confession by John Willers, formerly j
? captain in Company 1, Forty-eighth
United States infantry, alleged thief
and deserter, after his arrest here to
night, charged with absconding with ,
$5,000 of his company's funds on
December 19, 1919. His regiment
was then stationed at Camp Sevier,
Greenville, S. C.
His capture was accidental. He was
crossing Fifth avenue at Forty-second
street, near the Public Library,
when Hugh J. Hannigan, formerly
a first lieutenant in Willers' company,
recognized him. Hannigan called a
policeman and Willers was arrested, j
At a polk? station the prisoner was
further identified by two other former
lieutenants in Company 1, Sidney
P. Howell and Francis Hatch. Willers
was then taken to Governor's
Island, headquarters of the Second
army corps and placed in confinement
at Fort Jay.
Sent to Enlist.
Willers, the police said, recited in
a "brazen fashion how he was sent to
the United States as one of 300 cadets
trained in the acts of espionage
to enlist in the American army.
On his arrival in the United States,
Willers went to Albany, where he enlisted,
he said, as a private. His military
attitude won him rapid promotion
and his knowledge of English
and his ability to "speak like an
American" enabled him to obtain a
commission.
Willers said he had never been
sent across the ocean and while in
this country his instructions were
"to act the part of a loyal American"
and to take no action until he reached
the war zone.
"What w*as your plan after reach
ing the other side?" he was asked.
"I could lead the company to
slaughter," the police say he replied.
"You also would be killed," he was
reminded.
"What of that? Thousands of better
men died that way."
While being questioned at the police
station the police say Willers
remarked that they would be surprised
if they knew "the* number of
officials at Washington during the
war who were employed by Germany
as spies."
"Are they still there?" he was
asked.
Many of Them During the War.
"That, I don't know," he is said to
have answered. "But, there were
many of them during the war."
The Forty-eighth infantry was still
at Camp Sevier when the armistice
was signed, and his usefulness as a
spy at an end, Willers told the po
lice, he decided to become a deserter
and to take, they alleged, the funds
< o.f his company.
The deserter then went to Chicago
where, about a, year ago, he married
a young American woman named Crawford.
From Chicago, Willers roamed
about the country, at various times
in his travels trying unsuccessfully
to get a passport to Germany. He
disguised himself and waited an opportunity
to quit the country. A
pair of heavy eye glasses, he said,
was an important part of his disguise.
When questioned by military authorities
at Governor's Island, Willers
declined to amplify his alleged
confession to the police.
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Lesson in Arithmetic.
Arithmetic, according to the average
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"Why," Tommy explained' with a
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nought, but half of it sideways is
three."?Pittsburg Chronicle Telegram.
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