HOW I BECAME A SECRET AGENT “O Jerum, jerum, jerum, quemotatio rerum.” Half past three was heard booming from some clock tower on the twelfth day of June, 1913, when Mr. King, the Liberal representative fromSomerset, was given the floor in the House of Commons. Mr. King proceeded to make a sensation. He demanded that McKinnon Wood, the House Secretary for Scotland, reveal to the House the secrets of the strange case of Armgaard Karl Graves, German spy. A brief word of explanation may be necessary. Supposed to be serving a political sentence in a Scotch prison, I had amazed the English press and people by publicly announcing my presence in New York City. Mr. King asked if I was still undergoing imprisonment for espionage ; if not, when and why I was released and whether I had been or would be deported at the end of my term of imprisonment as an undesirable alien. Permit me to quote verbatim from the Edinburgh Scotsman of June 12, 1913 : The SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND replied -Graves was released in December last. It would not be in accordance with precedent to state reasons for the exercise of the prerogative. I have no official knowledge of his nationality. The sentence did not include any recommendation in favor of deportation.
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