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Land & Water 
July 25, 1918 
Frank. Buchanan 
Once chief rcprcseniativc ot' Labour in Congrcfss, 
who received $2,700 in »ix weeks for his -connection 
with the Peace Council, after Samuel Gompers had 
urged him to keep out of it. 
Andrew D. Meloy 
Engineer and promoter, who tried to work out a 
scheme by which he «nd Rintelen should buy the 
entire munition output of America for the German 
Government. 
Henry B. Martin 
Rintelen supplied Lamar the funds for Labour's 
National Peace Council ; Lamar did not appear, but 
directed and paid Martin ; and Martin made the 
arrangements and settled all the expenses. 
;ixe U) grind. Kintelcn had taken an interest in the German 
activities in Mexico, and almost from the day of his arrival 
liad been intimate in this work with Federico Stallforth, a 
German banker of Mexico City who joined Rintelen in New 
York. Stallforth had offices with Meloy at 55 Liberty Street, 
and when the Transatlantic Trust Company became embar- 
rassed by Rintelen's presence, Stallforth persuaded Meloy 
to rent Rintelen desk room. Their acquaintance started 
there about July ist. 
Meloy saw in Rintelen exactly what Lamar had seen — 
a lot of real money and an eagerness too great for caution. 
He began to belittle Lamar's scheme. Labour's National 
Peace Council would never do. It looked good on paper, 
but it would never stop the shipment of munitions. He even 
hinted that Lamar had been "playing" Rintelen. Now, if 
Rintelen wanted a real scheme, certain to succeed, he knew 
the very thing. Direct action — stop the bluffing and the 
dangerous intrigues. Buy the whole munitions output of 
the country. Bid high enough to get it, pay for it outright, 
and store it. That would cost money, lots of it : but what 
was money in' comparison with the certainty of German 
victoiy which this plan would ensure ! 
Rintelen was dazzled. Here was the authentic voice of 
American big business speaking. A magnificent scheme. 
He would take it to Germany, take Meloy with him, and get 
it O.Kd. by his Governmeht direct. 
Gasche or Rintelen or Gates ? 
But how get back to Germany ? He had grave doubts 
about the Gasche passport being good again. He put the 
question to Meloy, and Meloy advised against it. There 
was a better way : get a new passport under a new name. 
So for a few days Rintelen became "Edward V. Gates, wine 
merchant, of Millersburg, Pa." In this guise, Meloy intro- 
duced him to one of his own real estate salesmen, and Rintelen 
took this man to dinner once or twice to work up the illusion. 
Then, one day, he asked the salesman to go with him to the 
passport bureau in New York and be his witness to an applica- 
tion for a passport. The salesman went, and in good faith 
swore that Rintelen was Edward V. Gates. His faith was 
not so good when he swore he had known him for three 
years. The application was transmitted telegraphically to 
Washington. Much to Rintelen's astonishment and alarm 
it was denied. 
Rintelen was now thoroughly alarmed. The Govern- 
ment's refusal to grant his fraudulent application for a 
passport mdicated that they knew about him. The Govern- 
ment was getting " warm " in its investigation of the incendiary 
bombs. He would chance it as Gasch6 again. 
So he sailed on the Noordam, with Meloy and party. He 
bore with him Lamar's urgent appeals for more funds for 
Labour's National Peace Council, now at the high tide of 
Its success. And he was in the hands of Meloy, who was 
at the first of his own rainbow of hope of millions with which 
to buy America's munition output— on commission. 
Rintelen Captured ' 
At l-almonth, the Noordam was detained for fourteen 
iiours. I he British took a great interest in the Gasche- 
Meloy party, (iasche's baggage revealed nothing suspicious, 
but Gasche was removed to a long residence in an internment 
camp near London. Meloy was detained for several days. 
Mrs. Meloy soonappearedtobebeyondsuspicion. MissBiophy, 
Meloy's secretary, declared that her baggage contained only 
her personal effects. But at the bottom of her last trunk was 
found a wallet containing Gasche's papers. These were 
seized, and Miss Brophy. and Mrs. Meloy were allowed 
to proceed to Holland, where they were later rejoined by 
Meloy. 
The Gasche papers were most interesting. They con- 
tained some of Rintelen's letters. showing his intimacy with 
well-known New Yorkers, and letters in which he referred 
to his " official mission" to the United States that were 
very important, for they proved what Rintelen steadfastly 
denied, namely, that he was in this country by orders of the 
German Government. In one of them to a man in Germany, 
whom he addressed as "Most Honourable Counsellor," he 
wrote : "Your letter of the 25th March [1915] was sent after 
me when I was on an official journey, and I request you to 
excuse the delaying in replying." And another letter, from 
the National Bank Fuer Deutschland, dated Berlin, 25th 
May, 1915, and addressed "To the Landed Proprietor, von 
Preskow," contained this sentence: "Director Rintelen, 
who looked after Major von Katte's account, entered 
the navy on the outbreak of hostilities and as he is' 
at present on an official journey is not available at the 
moment." 
And now began one of the most difficult and one of the 
longest tasks of the Department of Justice. For, out of the 
fragments of evidence at its command, an^l out of the seem- 
ingly innocent public acts of Labour's National Peace Council, 
and out of the obscure and isolated outrages to ships and 
factories in the United States, the Department of Justice 
had to construct a pattern that should prove, by tangible legal 
evidence, the guilt of Rintelen and Lamar in a" plot to violate 
the laws of the United States. 
Testimony was brought in that showed how the money 
for the Peace Council was spent. One item was for funds 
to pay the expenses of a German preacher from St. Louis 
to attend the convention at Washington and open the pro- 
ceedings with prayer. I,amar had never heard of this until 
he heard it in the court room It was too much for him. 
When this evidence came out, of the lengths to which his 
own pupils had out-distanced even their teacher in the art 
of political camouflage, he burst into roars of uncontrollable 
laughter which litetally stopped all proceedings in court, the 
tears rolling down his cheeks as he struggled to. subdue his 
mirth. 
Out of all the investigations of the Government arose a 
card index of every man that Rintelen and Lamar had seen 
during the four months from April 3rd to August 3rd, 1915 
of every hotel they had visited, of practically every telephone 
call they had made and telegram sent or received, of neariv 
every dollar they had had and spent. Thousands upoii 
thousands of these cards were made and filed. Both men 
were sentenced to a year in gaol. 
Rintelen has completed serving time of the first of his 
three sentences, and has the other two still to serve. The 
Tiger of Beriin is now securely caged, and not likely soon to 
be again at large. 
