Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-15
Direct and Immediate Prosecution by U. S. S.
cret Service Embarrassed by Diplomatic Re-
lationship with Foreign Nations-Delicacy Of
Situation Place Burden of Authority for Ae
ton upon President and His Advisors

New York. Nov 1.-THE Names OF
men. officially. socially, and in a busl-
ness way far more prominent IMAM
Lieut." Robert Fay and his band OF
plotters have been laid before Presi-
dent Wilson and the state department
in Washington. il was said SATURDAY
in the Federal building. as the true
organizers and directors not only OF
Fay's plot but of the various Teutonic
activities which. openly and in secret,
have annoyed the government of the
United States in the point of embarras-
ment.
Plenty Of Evidence
With this list Of names was included
an array of data which, at the word OF
President Wilson. would enable Will
lam J. Flynn. chief of the United
States secret service. and United states
Dist. Atty. II. Snowden Marshall to go
into court with cases so complete as
to insure the downfall of the men
against whom they were directed.
Both Chief Flynn and Mr. Marshall
left here Saturday and went to Wash
ington. Neither would discuss his visit.
Neither would admit it had to do with
plots or plotters. From sources usually
we'll informed. however. it was learned
that each journeyed to Washington to
discuss with the administration the sin
gle feature OF their cases which is
causing President Wilson to withhold
the word for action.
This feature is the identity of some
of the men to whom have pointed all
signs unearthed by Chief F'lynn's in
r 1,kn
be prominent i'll this city. Others,
however. are native Germans and Aus
trians men who are in this country in
the interests Of their own governments
and whose positions are such as TO
make most delicate any open move
against them.
III fact, under diplomatic usage. which
exempts certain servants of other govern
mcnts from practically all the restric-
tons of ours, il is question now con-
corning the President and his advisers
what may be done in the cases OF these
men. 1t was said at the federal building
Saturday that If a way could be found
to act without endangering the present
foreign relations of this country. the Sc
cret service was prepared to produce evil
dence in connection with the plots
against the interests of the Allies in this
country so complete as to destroy the
conspiracy to its very foundations.
1t was reported Saturday that Chief.
at the instigation OF President Wilson.
had been entrusted with the charge OF
an investigation designed TO disclose the
true causes of the recent fires in aminu-
milton plants, explosions and purtsts OF
flames on ships at sea. II was seneraliS
supposed that. the chief and his men
would seek out the perpetrators OF these
offences, the men who started the nres.
the men who placed the bombs.
Sought Heads Of System
Instead Chief Flynn werely fastened
to conclusion line of Investigations
he had begun many months ago. ana
which was not disrected at the mere in
struments they employed. but at the men
il: whose imaginations was conceived the
consnirahy to wage war from a neutral
country, and by whose At this war was
directed.
Chief Flynn began his work when the
steamships Lorenzo. Berwind and the
Fran and Somerstad sailed out OF this
port more than a year ago. ostensibly on
peaceful voyages to South American
ports, Dut really thc SoNSA Ai'i-N'ie -'S''
contends. to supply food, fuel and other
munitions TO German cruisers which
Great Britain then had not forced from
their raids on commerce. He continued
il when Capt. Boy-ed was drawn into the
controversy over fraudulent passports,
when Ambassador Dumba and Capt. Won
Paper were disclosed as having trickei
the United States authorities to SEND
private advices abroad.
He continued il when Alexander and
Victor Condos. Hungarian newspaper
publishers, and afterwards Josef Goricar
former Austrian consul. branded the
Transatlantic Trust Co. of this city as a
government branch of a Hungarian ma
tional bank. and charged that Alexander
Nuber Won Pereked, Austrian consul gen.
eral here, was his governments repre-
sentative on the bank board and the true
wielder of power supposed to belong TO
the president. Julius Printer. y
Up to President
And he had only TO gather in the loose
strands when tine President called on
him for report. What is to be done
with Chief Flynns information depends
now on the President Already one pros
ecution has been authorized, directed
against prominent men, though men Of
no official position. The trial of the Ham.
burg-American Line and several of its
officers on charges connected with plans
to help Germany in the war will begin
in the federal district court here tomor-
row. The trial results from the indict-
ment on last March / of the steamship
line. Karl Buenz. its director and for
mer consul general of Germany at this
port: George koetter superintendent.
Adolph Hachmeister. purchasing agent.
and Felix Sessner and Walter Poppen-
house.
The proceedings are expected to be
merely formal and date probably will
be set for the opening of the prosecution.
This may be some day later in the week,
but it will depend on the convenience Of
the court and representations counsel on
either side may make.
The prosecution arises out of a COM
plant made by seamen of the Berwind
that they had been treated unfairly on a
voyage in the autumn Of 1914 and had not
received proper food. They said their
ship had cleared for Buenos Ayres. but
1t actually carried coal to rocky island
near Trinidad for the use Of German
cruisers.
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