New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-06
FOUR ALLEGED SPIES.
HELD FOR INQUIRY BY THE IMMIGRA-
TON BUREAU.
QUARTET OF srAHIARDs. FOUND IN GREEN
wTciI-sT. BOARDING HOUSE. WHOSE ACTIONS
ARE SUSPICIOUS AND STORIES
CONFLICTING.


CONFLICTING
-Four spanlards were taken TO the Barge once
Yesterday and will be detained there until tho
,,rr,yra,ion authorities are satisfied that the
are not spies The chances are that the quartet
Will he deported TIE men were taken IN charge
on information furnished by woman who cahed
AT the Barge ONCE several days ago. ana to'a
Deputy Commissioner insolvency that pan had
been perfected by which Spanish subjects were
h.inr sont into the United states by the way OF
Canada and that the men sent here were 10 nna
out about the military and naval movements She
ea,d that the mon were being sent through Cahaoa
and into the United States as Portuguese ci'@ehs'
and not as Span.ards While Mr.. McSweeney
would not make public the name Of the woman no
placed considerable confidence in her story, ana
sent out Chief Registry Clerk Lederhilger to look
for The Standards Mr.. Lederhilger found four
men a, the address furnished by the woman, NO.
50 C;reenwich-st.. a boarding house The men saio
they were Austrians, but when the clerk spoke 10
then, IN German they were unable TO answer him
They then said they were French. and when tho
French language was used in questioning them
they were equally ignorant. This at once made
Iederhugcr suspicious. and re took the men 70 mo
Barge Office There. after pressure. they
gave their names and acknowledged that they were
Spaniards and had come to this city from quebec
a few days ago.
Their names and ages are lose B!do. twenty.
eight: Antonio Tokario. twenty-eight; Jose braA
twenty-cight and Manuel Gonzales Sanhz. twenty
ak The story as told BY the men was remark
able in that il was conflicting in many details
They said they had no, been in Spain for from
six 10 nine years. yet on one OF the men was oulo
a Snanish passport dated 1896. According 10 the
story as gathered from the men through an inter-
prefer they had been in Buenos Ayres and de-
sired to get 10 Vera Cruz Mexico. They had gone
from Ruenos Ayres to Liverpool and from there to
Quebec From Quebec they had come to New
York bv rail and intended TO take passage from
here 10 Vera Cruz. When asked why they mad
taken this unusual and out Of the way route they
refused To answer. When the men were searched
II was found that they had secured passage on .
cattle steamer Bristol. England. and evidently
did not intend to 20 Vera Cruz
In the possession OF one OF the men was found
n receipt for "Medios Pesos" or about one-haf
dollar from the Association Patriotica Espahol."
OF Mercedes Il. A." This receip, was dated Janu-
ary 1895 Manuel Gonzales Sanfz who had told
the Commissioner that he had not been In spain
for six had PasSSGr yem m ms oTa naI IN
addition To- these papers the men had divided up
among them six gold watches ana chains. ana
When they were asked further as 10 why they
had taken such a long route 70 get 10 Vera cru:
they gave further explanation than 20 say mat
they came by rail 10 New-York and intended 10
sail from here. They dd finally, after some aues.
tionnC. that they had learned OF the war when
they landed in quebec. and AT once had the Spanish
Consul there telegraph to New-York to the Spanish
Consul General asking II the men could get hero
safeIV and tho answer came back that they could
Al the time the telegram was said to have been
sent the Spanish Consutieneral had already left
New-York
The immigration authorities WIFI express no opin-
ION to why the men came here. They az once
the men until they have received instructions from
Washington. Six other Spaniards. who were also
nSd qr ora the T ss smd On ,dyss
from Washington they will at once be sent back