The _Wyoming_ is 562 feet in length, of 26,000 tons displacement, and
carries twelve 12-inch and twenty-one 5-inch guns.]
An incident in connection with the arrest of Ruroede is related by
French Strother in his story “Fighting German Spies” published in _The
World’s Work_. Ruroede “was being urged by the Assistant United States
District Attorney to ‘come across’ with the facts about his activities
in the passport frauds, and he had stood up pretty well against the
persuasions and hints of the attorney and the doubts and fears of his
own mind. About eleven o’clock at night, as he was for the many’th time
protesting his ignorance and his innocence, another agent of the Bureau
of Investigation walked across the far end of the dimly lit room—in one
door and out another—accompanied by a fair-haired lad of nineteen.
“‘My God!’ exclaimed Ruroede, ‘have they got my son, too? The boy knows
nothing at all about this.’
“This little ghost-walking scene, borrowed from _Hamlet_, broke down
Ruroede’s reserve, and he came out with pretty much all the story,
ending with the melancholy exclamation ‘I thought I was going to get an
Iron Cross; but what they ought to do is to pin a little tin stove on
me.’”