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"Open the door," commanded Doe. 
The door swung open, and the big German sat back on his 
bed. Then he saw the Canadian uniforms, and jumped for 
his coat. Doe shoved him back, and one of the constables 
got the coat, and the revolver in it. When Doe told Horn 
he was an American officer, Horn stopped resisting, and 
said ; 
" That's all right, then. I thought you were all Canadians. 
I wouldn't harm any one from here." 
Doe handcuffed Horn to his own arm, and took him to the 
Immigration Station to make an inquiry. Here Horn told 
a straightforward story, but with one embellishment that 
caused more excitement than all the rest, and that ultimately 
revealed his own character in its clearest light. This story 
was that he had not brought the dynamite in his suit-case, 
but that, by prearrangement, he had carried the empty suit- 
case to the bridge, and there met an Irishman from Canada, 
to whom he gave the 
password "Tommy," ,' „' 
and that this Irishman 
had given him the 
explosive and then 
•disapp>eared. 
"Tommy" imme- 
diately became a 
sensation who over- 
shadowed Horn him- 
self. Canadian officers 
scoured the Canadian 
shore for days, looking 
for this dangerous 
renegade, and Ameri- 
cans were as zealous 
on their side of the 
river. 
But Horn himself 
was in a dangerous 
position. Lynching 
bees were discussed 
•on both sides of the 
river, and probably 
only prompt action 
by the local author- 
ities prevented one. 
Both to hold Horn 
for more serious 
prosecution and to get 
him out of peril, he 
was charged in the 
local p)olice-court with 
maUcious mischief in 
breaking the window 
^lass in one of the 
liouses in Vanceboro ; 
he pleaded guilty, and 
was at once removed 
to Machias, the county 
seat, to serve thirty 
(lays in jail. Five days 
after the explosion, 
the Department of 
Justice had Horn's 
signed confession, 
taken in person by 
the Chief of the Bur- 
eau of Investigation. 
It was in the giving of this confession that Werner Horn 
revealed himself most fully as a patriot and a gentleman, 
and, all unconsciously, revealed that the cynical von Papen 
was a liar, a cold-blooded criminal, and, for the second time 
in the first months of tlie war, the secret hand behind the 
violations of American neutrality instigated through him 
and Bemstorff at the behest of the Imperial German Govern- 
ment. 
When the Government Agent saw Horn in jail at Machias, 
and warned him that what he said would be used against 
him in proceedings for his extradition into Canada, or prose- 
cution here, Horn told the same straightforward story, with 
the same embellishment about "Tommy." "I met a white 
man," so Horn said, "whom I liad never seen before, but 
who was about 35 or 40 years ' of age — clean shaven — 
'Tommy' — I was told to say 'Tommy' when I met him - 
I cannot say anything that would involve the Consulate or 
the Embassy — Gcfrmany is at war — I received, however, an 
order which was from one who had a right to give it, a verbal 
urder only — received it two or three days before leaving 
New York for Vanceboro." 
Later he said : " I cannot sjicak of the rank of the man 
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Werner Horn's Confession 
la which he unintentionally revealed the guilty purposes of Von Papen to violate American 
neutrality and commit a crime against human life, and which Horn refused to sign upon his 
"honour as a Germ.in officer" until it was .lUcred to remove the fantastic tale about a 
confederate in C'lnada. 
who gave the orders — I cannot even say that he was an 
officer. No one was present when the orders were given me 
in New York City. I cannot tell more because it was a 
matter for the Fatherland. I would rather go to Canada 
(where he knew they wanted to lynch him) than to tell more 
about my orders — -this would be impossible — at least, until 
after the war is over." 
Horn admitted he had met von Paj^en several times at 
the German Club in New York City, but no art could compel 
him to admit that he had got his orders from him. But, as 
the agent noticed, his manner gave his words the lie ; and 
whenever he tried to tell anything that was inaccurate he 
did so with great difficulty and embarrassment. But finding 
him determined, at whatever risk, to witlihold this informa- 
tion, and determined, too, to stick to the absurd story about 
"Tommy," the agent wrote out by typewriter a statement 
of the facts as he had given them for Horn to sign. 
Horn read the state- 
ment over and said 
that he would sign it. 
Then the agent took 
out his pen, added a 
few items of new 
information, and wrote 
these words : 
"I certify on my 
honour as a German 
officer that the fore- 
going statements are 
true," and handed 
Horn the pen to sign 
it. Horn read the last 
sentence, and seemed 
non-plussed. He 
turned back through 
t'ne pages of thestate- 
, m e n t , blushed, 
scratched his head, 
and finally grinned 
up at the agent with 
the one word : 
"Tommy ! " 
The agent grinned 
in turn : 
You mean it's all 
right except ff)r 
Tommy ? " 
"Yes." 
Horn would not sign 
a lie and pledge his 
honour it was truth. 
.\ close scrutiny of 
the block on. this page 
will show where tlie 
]ieriod after the word 
"true" has been 
erased, so that the 
sentence could go on 
to say, before lie 
signed it, " except as to 
' Tommy ' that I did 
not buy the nitro- 
glycerine, but received it 
in New York, and took 
it with me in the suit- 
case. I cannot say from 
whom I received it. Werner Horn." 
It Werner Horn had been less honest, less humane, the 
black wickedness of his Imperial masters would have been 
less clearly visible. He was the one who was punctilious to 
respect American neutrality — while they flouted it. He was 
the one who risked his own life rather than imperil others- — 
while they sat snug in Washington devising means to place 
on the rudders of American ships the bombs that would add 
another horrid chapter to their crimes. A mere criminal at 
Vanceboro might have been accused of exceeding their 
criminal instructions — Werner Horn refused to carry out 
the instructions they had given. 
But the American Government was on still other German 
plotters' trails. How the Department of Justice soon 
had a network of special agents and detectives in every 
city, town, and hamlet in the country, is told in the next 
article, which is the story of the ship bombs, another of the 
infernal imaginings of the evil geniuses at Berlin, one of the 
most heartless of the cruelties of von Bemstorff and von 
Papen, and one of the cleverest pieces of American Govern- 
ment detective work born of the war. 
{To be continued.) 
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