The League by Bill Mills

Author:Bill Mills
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Report Made By:

No. 229 APL

Place Where Made:

Minneapolis

Date When Made:

7-16-1918

RE: SERGEANT FRED GREENE, Deserter from the British Army

On the afternoon of July 7th at about 3:30 Headquarters gave me the following information: “Sergeant Fred Greene of the British Army is a deserter, and an officer has been sent from the British Headquarters in Chicago to effect the delivery of him to that office, and he (the officer from Chicago) has requested this office to endeavor to effect the arrest of Sergeant Greene. He lives at 629 Grand Avenue and the house was searched this morning. He was not there and the wife would give no information. She was very indignant. Will you endeavor to bring him in?”

Immediately I got into communication with several operatives, Nos. 154, 244, 328, 209, and 284.

No. 154 and I were on watch at a little after four o’clock, staying a little ways, a block or so, from the house. We realized that the husband was not in the house and that we must locate him through the wife. At about 4:45 Mrs. Fred Greene came into the front yard with a bright red coat on. She evidently suspected officers being on watch, and immediately returned to the house, either changed her clothes or simply removed the coat, but she came out in a dark dress and walked up and down the street for quite a while. Not observing anyone, she left the house, going down towards 22nd Street.

By this time No. 328 had arrived and I asked him to follow her. She went into a nearby grocery store, did not telephone anyone from there, simply purchased a few groceries and returned to the house. While she was away No. 224 arrived, and I asked him to endeavor to enter the house just across the street from the Greene house, which he did. In a little while Mrs. Greene returned and I told No. 224 to remain there until she left the house. I then left to get a bite to eat, expecting to return at 7 o’clock, but did not get there until 7:05. At 7:00 again Mrs. Greene left the house. No. 224 immediately asked No. 209, who had just arrived, to follow her, which he did very successfully. She took the streetcar at 22nd Street and Lyndale and left it at Hennepin, about 5th Street, very hurriedly purchased a suit case, and again took the street car towards the Great Northern Station; entered the station and was in the ladies’ waiting room only about ten minutes. During that time she was in the telephone booth a very few minutes. From the waiting room she went to the checking room and checked the suit case. A porter, at the request of No. 209, secured the number of the check.

In the meantime, No. 209 had sent for me, and as we hurried to the station he described the boarder at the Greene house. Just after we arrived she left the station and boarded a Monroe and Bryant car.

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