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Dr. Josef Goricar (b. 1873) originally from Pressberg in Styria, resigned from the Austro-HUngarian Consular Service in December 1914; in November 1915, he gave a statement to the Providence Journal, claiming that there were German and Austrian spies throughout the US. "The Austrian embassy denounced Dr. Goricar as a liar and a paid agent of the Russian Government." query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20F13F8385B17738... books.google.com/books?id=aGeHnWinaXIC&lpg=PA294&... books.google.com/books?id=ZKMMAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA290&...

Anton Mente was an Austro-Hungarian immigrant who was arrested in New York in 1915 and accused of plotting to plant bombs. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2071EF6385B1773... He denied the charges but eventually pleaded guilty to "violating the Tenement House Act" and was sentenced to one year in prison. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70A13FE3B5B17738... I can't find any mention of what happened to him after that.

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j3net thanks for the additional information. We will look further into this before making any changes to the source data.

Anton is a relative, a cousin, several generations back. He was arrested in 1915 served 1 year on jail, joined the Army around 1917 and then became a US Citizen. He was actually intervied in a newspaper on the day he became a US Citizen. His full name is Anton Frout Mente, and he later changed his name to Frank Mente. He was born in 1892 in BakonySzentLaszlo, Vesprem, Hungary. He immigrated to the US in 1906 He died in the 1960's and is buried in a Veterans Cemetery in Long Island. He worked as an electrition in New York in Brooklyn. He never married.

cw034: Thanks for sharing the rest of the story of Anton Mente. It's always interesting to learn what happened in the years after the photograph was taken!

He's not this J. F. Archibald: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._Archibald James Francis Jewell Archibald was an American journalist aboard the Rotterdam in August 1915, when he was detained by British authorities. He was carrying papers that revealed a plot to disrupt American munitions production by fomenting labor unrest at plants such as the Bethlehem Iron Works. The "Dumba Affair" is explained in this entry on the Austro-Hungarian ambassador who was expelled as a result: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Dumba

Thanks for the info! We'll update record.