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Show SALT LAKE ALIEN IMPRISONED US HE. WENT Alfred Frederick Hust, Photographer, Pho-tographer, Interned on Warrant Following-Long Following-Long Inquiry. HAD BEEN RECRUITING FOR. TEUTON ARMIES Max Graesks, Another German Ger-man and Former Convict, Also Taken by Government Govern-ment Officials. After having been under th surveillance sur-veillance of federal officers for nearly a year because of his avowed sympathy for Germany and it having been estab-Jisbed estab-Jisbed to the satisfaction of the United States government that he was an ayent of the kaiser, engaged in recruiting Germans for the imperial army, Alfred Frederick Hiist, manager of the Monroe Mon-roe photographic studio, 1 '22 &outh Main, was arrested in this city yesterday yester-day on a warrant issued by the president. presi-dent. He is now being held at the i couuty jail, and as toon as his photo-i photo-i graph aDd general description can be made a part of the government records ' Hust will be interned at the war prison barracks at Fort Douglas. Was Never Naturalized. Hust is a native of Germany, having been bor at Saarbrueckeu (Lorraine), November 1(1, 1 S S 2 . He has been a resident of thp United States since May 22, 190.3. While he claims French parentage, pa-rentage, he declared, on numerous occasions in public places in Salt Lake,, during the last year, botli before and after the declaratiou of war by l ho United States, that Germany was his native na-tive land and that Germany would al-I al-I ways have his sympathy and aid. j. It was learned last night, following j his arrest . on a presidential warrant, ' that Hust had been found to be J actually an agent of the German gov-I gov-I eminent and for many months has been I engaged iu recruiting men for the German Ger-man army, working in connection with German agents iu Mexico, shipping the recruits by the way of Mexico and paying pay-ing their transportation to Germany. Was Ager.t of Germany. R has also been learned from Hources other than federal, that Hust has been in constant touch, with German agents in other parts of the country, working with them in beeuring recruits for the (ierman army, and that frequent conferences con-ferences were held with other German residents with the definite purpose of doing everything possible to aid Germany Ger-many on this side of theAt!antie and defeat the purposes 0f the Fuited States in the war. When Leon Bone, special agent of the department of justice, was reticent last night concerning many of the facts which, led to the arrest of Hust, he admitted ad-mitted that the latter had been active in spreading T. W. W. literature, which of itself would have been sufficient to warrant his internment. The arrest 0 Hust h considered one of the most important im-portant yet made in any part of the country. Long before war was declared bv the United States again?! Germany, Hust, il is charged, boldly asserted his allegiance al-legiance to the fatherland and on numerous num-erous oecaions in a.n Uat Broadway inn he deda red bis py m pat hy for the kaiser and expressed the hope that Germany would win in the conflict. It was t hese nt f eraives which caused t lie department of justice- to keep 3 elose ual:h 00 him and for those, who heard his declarations to keep the federal officers of-ficers informed as to his actions. Abused His Privilege. In every way ilust abused the priv ileges which he eninved under the protection pro-tection nf Ihe United States flag. When the order was issued that ail Germa n aliens must see u re perm i I s to re ma in v. it hin t lie ret ricted .ones in Salt Lake, Just was one of the first to make ;i pplica tion and he was gi ven a permit without quc'-finn. "Being a photographer, he wa patronized hy officer of the I n i t ed St a I e a rnt v at Fort Dongla ?. making photograph- of nearly all of them, a well of th" officer and many of the en iid ed men of the Ft ah national guard before (he jjuard was must ered into the rrgnla r S"rvico. r en.io ed the p;i t rotiaur of the bet people peo-ple of Sail Lake. While profiting from si I'd 1 pa t roua L'e H ust w a engaged in doing veryt hiii"; poUdc. by s'TjIiment and act ion . 1 o defea t t ho purposes ol the --ou ut ry a f f ordi 11 g hi ni prot eetiori. V" hen he wa ? placed under a rret vesterda v at hi studio bv Lm-ien f(. Sm vth. deputy Urti t ed " St a t e n:a rshal. Must made hut yMtrht. prolt. Vbn lie reached the office of the Unites ta t e marsha !. however, he. dema ndd to !ikov on what eround he had been arrested, but he wa- offered no ex-planatiou ex-planatiou except that he had abused the 1 courtesies which had been extended to him under the American flag. He sent j lor his lawyer, who, after consultation ' (Continued on Page Two.) 1 i a LFRED FREDERICK X. HUST, and. at bottom. Max Graeske, German aliens, j arrested yesterday on presi- j dential warrants. j 1 - r .." x ' t-'! ' .4' Lbpzz '1 h, -nl Iv -S . ,1 Krh - j fff f y,v fa L i:;tef::ed it fdht (Continued from Page One.) wi-.h Mr. i'.onc a:id V. W. Rav. Uuitfii r i'5 Lt: rri' V, inl"'fr:i;t.'d h:m Thai thvre was notiru that con!.! lie done to jircv'-'iit t'lf estr.'iMii;.' of the or.:er or r !:? . i i -id'. rt. !ax 'ira.'-i-'. a native of Germany ami enf-Tiiv aiicii. wa. i la o :L uudor ar-' ar-' r-'.-t yi. ;t'.'i-dav ou a i csid.rntial war-j war-j rant serL-d bv the 1'iutcd States n-.ar-.-i;al. rhar'ed'with disloyal onIurt. j He will he heid at ' the county i h,:l until hotograi'h.ed and his ileei-i tion is enti-red"in tiie i;overii!r,ent records. rec-ords. Graeske is a sauaae maker and until the time of his arrest was in the emidov of the Success market. Groess-e is Ml years of are and was (;iven a permit per-mit to remain within the bounds of the restricted district last June. He was born at '.Variubiu, West Prussia, Ger-inanv, Ger-inanv, .Tulv 22. lbati, and has lived in the t'nited States for seven years. At one time lie was a brewer. When he was taken to the county jail vesterdav afternoon by Deputy United States Marshal Smyth." Graeske was at once recognized as a prisoner on parole from the state penitentiary, having received re-ceived an indeterminate sentence for a statutory offense about three years ago. |
