The Archive · 1938

Chequered Army Career

The following year he enlisted in the Army Medical Corps. Later he was imprisoned for six months for being absent without leave. In 1933 he was transferred to Fort Clayton, Panama, and then to Fort Missoula, Montanna, where he deserted aft being promoted to sergeant.

Since then Rumrich is said to have worked with the Berlitz School of Languages in New York and with the Denver Chemical Manufacturing Company in Brooklyn: He is married and has one child.

The other three defendants are Johanna Hofmann, red-headed hairdresser on board the Europa, who is accused of being a trans-Atlantic messenger or agent of the spy syndicate; Erich Glaser, a private in the United States Air Corps until he was arrested for allegedly selling to the German Government, through Rum-rich, an army telephone and telegraph code Book; and Otto Harmann Voss, an airplane mechanic arrested at the Seversky plant in Farmingdale, Lony Island.

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