Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-07-12 | Page 16 | Schmidt Remains behind the Bars

SCHMIDT REMAINS BEHIND THE BARS Actions of German Being Probed by Government Agents in the Meantime. John Schmidt, the German, who was arrested ar-rested on Tuesday for failing to secure a pass to enter the restricted area around the national guard armory, is still In the city jail and will be kept there until Leon Bone, special investigator for the department of justice has gone thoroughly into his case. Yesterday Mr. Bone said that he had gone into tha case of Schmidt and found that he had Heen given every opportunity to secure the necessary passes to enter the restricted zone. Until a complete report is made on Schmidt he will be held in the city prison. It is not necessary that he be booked at the prison, as the federal officers say he is not charged with a crime but with a violation of a war measure, and for this reason is an alien enemy and does not have to be formally charged. It developed yesterday that a number of Germans in the city have failed to bring in application blanks which they received from the marshal's office. One German came in yesterday with three photographs pho-tographs which had been taken in Germany Ger-many twenty years ago. They were mounted and the United States marshal's office refused to accept them. He was told to get new photographs. A friend who accompanied him declared that he did not regard the proclamation of President Wilson seriously until he read in The Tribune of the arrest of Schmidt. He made his application for a permit then and there.