“I certify on my honour as a German officer that the foregoing statements are true,” and handed Horn the pen to sign it. Horn read the last sentence and seemed nonplussed. He turned back through the pages of the statement, blushed, scratched his head, and finally grinned up at the agent with the one word:
“Tommy.”
The agent grinned in turn:
“You mean it’s all right except for Tommy?”
“Yes.”
Horn would not sign a lie and pledge his honour it was truth. A close scrutiny of the cut on [page 57] will show where the period after the word “true” has been erased, so that the sentence could go on to say, before he signed it, “except as to ‘Tommy’—that I did not buy the nitro-glycerine but received it in New York and took it with me in the suitcase. I cannot say from whom I received it. Werner Horn.”
WERNER HORN’S CONFESSION (first page)