New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-06
Federal officials Try to
Connect Fay and ShOlz
with Navy Yards.
SERGEANT COMES
TO IDENTIFY THEM
Two Others Indicted for Placing
Bomb on Allies Sugar
Ship.

for completely IN the plot 20 blow az
ships laden with sugar FOR the Allies
! yesterday, Federal officers were trying
/ to connect Lieutenant Richard Fay and
Walter Scholz with plots to blow CT
the Washington Navy Yard and destroy
the Texas in the Brooklyn yard.
The indictments found are against
Albert Verkayak and Richarl Meyer.
hosfer. They arc charged with re-
colving goods stolen from ships on
which bombs had been planted and with
grand larceny. Their indictment is
based on the confession Of fellow
/ plotter.
Fay and Scholz Taken from Tombs.
The first inkling Of The new develop
ment of tho Federal investige came
when Fay and Scholr were taken hur-
riedly from the Tomb. prison and
brought lace to face with q sergeant
OF marines who had arrived from Wash
ington to identify them as men he had
seen prowling around the navy ysro
several months before their arrest in
Weehawken.
Chief Flynn took the men directly 70
the office Of Marshal Mccarthy, where
the sergeant was awaiting them, and
after a conference of a half hour the
prisoners were taken back to the
Tombs.
II. Snowden Marshall, the District
Attorney, and Chief Flynn declined TO
say what had occurred at the meeting,
but 1t was reported that the sergeant
was from the navy yard in Brooklyn
and that he was there TO identity ray
and Scholz In connection with recent
attempt to attach an internal machine
20 the rudder post OF the battleship
Texas.
This information about the navy yard
in Brooklyn and its relation to the
Identification Of the prisoners was
later dissipsted by Fay on his with
drawal from the Office OF the marshal.
men had been trying to find several
suspicious sersons who had been Prov
ling around the navy yard in Washing
ton and. falling to get them, had tried
to nut /. over" on him. Fay also de-
MED other stories to the effect that ne
was an Austrian, a deserter from the
army. and that his real name was Fell;
latter YOUR talk with Chief Flynn"
he was asked, what do you think was
the object Of bringing you to the Fed
eral Building'"
Identification farce" was his laconic
answer
as there any truth to the report that
your real name Is Fell; that you are
Hungarian subject, and deserter from
the srmyT
mo"
"Have you made any statement OF
that nature?"
"No. Never have I made any state
ment to that effect
"Do you know that a United States
sergeant of marines was witness be-
fore the grand jury and that he was
called In to-day while you were taking
with Chief Flynn?"
With no hesitation, Fay replied:
"The Secret Service men are unable TO
find some men who, | understand, they
say have been around the navy yard, or
know where. Being unable to find them
they are apparently trying to put this
over on me-
"Was there any Identification 7"
"Well, the marine sergeant says be
has seen me. II he had, why did he
not do his duty and arrest me on the
spot7"
Fay's parting reJolnder was the am
biguous remark: "The superintendent
at the navy yard seems to be splendid
Two Others Observe Prisoners.
Fay and Scholz were also exhibited
before two men from the United States
coast artillery who had observed sew
eral suspicious strangers wandering
around government posts In this vi
cinity before any arrests were made.
A negro, also government witness,
was also called upon to Identify the
men II possible.
The sergeant of marines, the first
person to scrutinize the prisoners yes
terday, carried small box which was
said to be one Of the powerful explo-
Gives that had been attached to the
rudder post OF the battleship Texas.
With the admissions OF Fay yester-
day concerning the identification
farce" 1t Is believed that the Federal
authorities are trying TO show that Fay,
Scholz and others associated with them
have been directly plotting against this
government itself By this means q
clearer case may be prosecuted against
them than through their efforts to de-
stroy ships laden with arms and am
munition for the Allies.
Fund Too Layge for One Person
A Federal official familiar with the
case against the bomb conspirators de-
clared yesterday that the government
had ascertalned that about 100000 had
been used In the conspiracy, and that
the sum was too great TO have been
procured or handled by any one person
or group OF persons.
He said the government had q sus-
picion that the fund came In an indl-
rect wa from the imperial govern
ment, but thus far had been unable 20
connect its manipulation with any OF
the German officials serving their coun-
try in the United States.
Captain Tunney, OF the Police De-
partment, who arrested Fay and Seholz
In Weehawken, said yesterday that Fay
told him he knew some OF the gang
that had been stealing from the sugar
ships. Fay also told him. re continued,
that these thieves were using bombs
TO set fire TO steamships and mask
their thefts by fires aboard ship. Ac.
cording to Captain Tunney, Fay looked
upon the sugar thieves as stupid fell
lows and told how they had spent slo,-
900 for bombs that proved to De Of no
account.
During a grill!ng Of Verkayck b.
Captain Tunney, the prisoner admitted
he had fed 10 New Jersey when the
story OF the bomb plot by the sugar
pirates" came out, because he feared
he would be arrested for setting fire to
vessels carrying supplies TO France