Black Tom Lemon Juice

Did secret agents of Imperial Germany rattle Wall Street windows, kill three U. S. citizens and scare the whole country by touching off the terrific Black Tom munitions explosion eight months before the U. S. entered the War? Did German agents also cause the Kingsland munitions fire?

On Nov. 14, 1930 the German-American Mixed Claims Commission decided the Black Tom and Kingsland cases in Germany's favor. Recently the U. S. Government produced fresh evidence, attempted to reopen the case, proffered a copy of a Blue Book Magazine on the margins of which an Imperial German secret agent was supposed to have written incriminating statements in lemon juice. (Lemon juice writing is invisible until heated, then turns brown.)

In Washington last week broad-browed U. S. Supreme Court Justice Owen Josephus Roberts (Teapot Dome prosecutor) ruled finally as umpire on the Black Tom and Kingsland cases, threw out the lemon juice evidence, vindicated Germany once & for all, thus saved the Fatherland more than $40,000,000 in U. S. claims. Justice Roberts, whose hand shook as he read his verdict, said that some of the evidence against Germany seemed to have been "fraudulently prepared."

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