UNDERGROUND ARMIES
"patriotic"
IN
AMERICA
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appeals suspects his activities against the country he
so zealously wants to
"save."
Some shrewd observer once remarked that "patriotism is the
last refuge of a scoundrel." Whenever I come across an "ultrawith foam dripping from his mouth while he beats his
patriot"
chest with loud cries about his own honesty and the crooked
ness of those
I
running the country,
I
look for the criminal record of a
and
suspect a phony.
man who s
As a
yelling
rule,
"Chase
have honest government," and all
too often I find one. Henry D. Allen, alias H. O. Moffet, alias
Howard Leighton Allen, alias Rosenthal, etc., ex-inmate of San
Quentin and Folsom prisons, is no exception; his criminal
record extends over a period of twenty-nine years.
Let me give the record before I start quoting from his letters,
out the
crooks"
"Let
s
chiefly for the benefit of those sincere
thought his Swastika-inspired
and
activities
loyal
Americans who
represented honest con
victions.
May
17, 1910:
fictitious checks.
Arrested in Los Angeles charged with uttering
In simple language this means just a little bit
of forgery. Los Angeles Police
Department file, No. 7613.
June 10, 1910: Sentenced to three years imprisonment; sen
tence suspended upon tearful assurances of
good behavior.
May 12, 1912: Picked up in Philadelphia charged with being
a fugitive; brought back to Los
Angeles.
July i, 1912: Committed to San Quentin. Guest No. 25835.
April 21, 1915: Committed to Folsom from Santa Barbara on
a forgery charge. Guest No.
9542.
Feb. i, 1919: Arrested in Los
Angeles County charged with
suspicion of a felony. Los Angeles County No. 14554.
June 31, 1924: Arrested in San Francisco, charged with utter
ing fictitious checks. No. 35570.
Oct.
5,
that Allen
No. 233.
Los Angeles Police Department issued notice
was wanted for uttering fictitious checks. Bulletin
1925: