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if he had a map of Puerto Rico (Emerson had lost his). Riefkohl answered that he did, but it was decidedly too big for
Emerson's use. Riefkohl returned home, not knowing that Emerson was a spy, and quickly drew another map with a depiction of the major ports and harbors of Puerto Rico. It is believed
309:. His commanding officer was Colonel Henry Howard Whitney. Whitney asked him if he knew the Riefkohl family of Maunabo. Upon realizing that Riefkohl was the lad that drew the map which he, Whitney, had handed to General Miles during the Spanish–American War, they became good friends.
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which was held from February 2, 1925, to June 30, 1925 He also attended and graduated from the
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crew member in the furnace-room of the merchant ship, and that Whitney gave the map to General
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Frank E. Estes, of the Army Service Corps, to mount the expedition.
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that Emerson gave Riefkohl's map to another spy, Lieutenant
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