Omaha daily bee., 1914-10-30
BERLIN POLICE ARB
BUSY AFTER SPIES
Subjects Of English Nationality or
Affiliations Are Arrested by
German Authorities.
TWO PROMINENT BRIToNs HELD
Third, who Admits He Entered
Country Under raise Passports
ne an American, Believed to
Have Been shot.
1914. by Press Publishing Co.
ny HERBERT u, swoPE,

ny HERBERT u. sWOPE.
/ LONDON, oct. 29.-(By Courier from
Berlin, Oct. 10, Delayed in Transmission
from Holland Frontier )-(special Cable
gram TO New York World and Omaha
Bee. )-There has been a vivid recrudes-
cence Of the spy mania throughout the
German empire, those suspected being
English or OF English affiliations. being ar
rested and In some cases shot Here in
Berlin two Englishmen OF prominence,
attached TO the American embassy have
been taken into custody, while a third,
who was seized with false papers. has
disappeared, after being made a prisoner
and seemingly well-grounded fear IL ex-
pressed that he has boon shot
Claimed 90 he Correspoadent.
! He is, or was, Nathaniel Pike. Is years
old. graduate OF Cambridge university,
and was believed TO have been the cor
respondent OF the Reuter- agency. but the
military authorities hold he came here
as a SPY.
From admissions he made personally to
Ambassador Gerard, he entered this
country from Denmark under false pa
pers. He represented himself as being
Frank Eggieston, an American news
paper man. and showed passports with
this name. He also had a birth certifi-
cate that showed the bearer TO have been
born In Brooklyn He said he had lived
In England since childhood as an ex-
PLANTATION OF his marked English accent.
No Rights Go Papers.
| Under pressure he admitted he had no
night to the American papers, which he
said he had bought and confessed he
4 oft l.
He was at once taken secretly to prison
and the announcement was made that ne
would be shot as a spy Ambassador
| Gerard interested himself In his behalf,
but cannot obtain any news Of Pixies
whereabouts or what happened TO him.
The report has been circulated, although
II lacks confirmation, that he has been
| executed.
Arrested at Outbreak of war.
| The two Englishmen taken from the
I American embassy ana lodged in jaIl
| Thursday, october 8, were John Herbert
spottiswood member OF a wealthy and
well known English family, and James
G. Weston an English civil engineer
who had been employed by the Turkish
! government in its navy department. Both
were in Germany at the outbreak of the
i
being released TO the custody of Ambas-
sador Gerard. who put them to work In
the embassy's English department
| spottlswood Is q man OF Independent
means. interested In a sporting way In
aeronautics. He Is q friend of Com
mander Porte. who was to have flown
the wanamaker biplane across the At
iantic. Spottiswood was recognized by a
| hox
many last summer in connection with
the purchase OF aeroplanes. That Caused
him TO be regarded with suspicion. Then
came the aeropiane fiisht over Dusscl-
dorf. I'm which bombs were dropped on
a Zeppelin hangar. As 1t was known to
but few that Zeppelin was at Dussel-
dorf, the police associated spottiswood's
name with the occurrence He was ar
rested and not allowed to communicate
with anybody.
Had Turkish Naval Plans.
westons rooms were searched and he
was found 70 have so-called secret plans
OF the Turkish navy He explained these
by saying that he was working for the
Turkish government. At first this state
ment was accepted but later. as Turkey
became more and more a possible ally
| ot nc was Nahcu INTO CubIOuy
The military police descended upon the
rooms where he was working and ar
rested him. at tho same time seiGing pa
pers belonging to the American embassy.
The police made an effort TO search the
private office. but Roland Harvey, sec.
ond secretary of the embassy, who hap
pened to be there at the time. looked the
doors and denied the police admittance
In the name OF the United States.
They did not press the matter and the
papers taken from the American embassy
have been returned with apologies
Americas Surgeon Arrested,
Yesterday word reached Berlin that DR..
Frederick Warren Pearl. American sur
geon. who was a major in the Spanish
American war, had bean arrested at
stettln. He is brother-ln-law OF Stuart
Duncan OF Newport He lie accused OF
being q British spy. The ambassador
has taken steps 20 have him released.