The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-12
SKIPPER ARRESTED
IN GERMAN ROUNDUP
Taken From ship on Technical
Charge Of EmbeZzlcmpnt-
Once i'm L. :. Service.
SAYS HE'S BEEN TRIED

Another arrest attributed 10 the ac-
tIvities Of United States secret service
agents In connection with the inquiry
INTO the pro-German propaganda was
made yesterday I'm Brooklyn. Cant.
William G. Finke. former commander os
the collier Max and now skipper OF the
ireish,er c. W. Morse. plying between
this port and the West Indies. was taken
from his ship at Port Richmond on a
warrant issued AT the request OF Special
Agent Ambrose ~ the Departmen, OF
Justice. The arrest vas made by Dep
uty United states Marshal Johnson OF
Brooklyn.
The case presents several mysterious
features. The charge In the warrant is
embezzlement from the United states
while in the naval auxiliary service. The
amount specified Is $3.50. and the
charge Is three years old.
Capt. ltnhe maintains that ne was
tried on the charge and acquitted two
years ago. As proof of this he produced
Il newspaper clipping in which i, was
set forth that "A Federal Judge had
ordered IA verdict OF acquittai after fail
ure OF the Government to show that A
demand had been made upon him for
payment Of the amount alleged TO have
been cmbezzled.
Nevertheless, United States Commits
s1onr! 'thooue. before whom the cap
.fsn WIS a~rraigued, held the prisoner in
bail or $500 until December /. at the
request OF Assistant United States Az
'nrnaN Rid JtaNi r.uy f,..t.l.l "
surety company. It was suggested to
Mr.. Reid by the newspaper men that
until December was "A long time to hold
the defendant. who insisted tina a tele-
gram 10 Norfolk. Va, would establish
the fact OF his acquittal, hut Mr.. Reid
declined TO comment. SIR. Reid was then
asked outright IL the arre., was not part
OF the inquiry into German plots In this
country. He refused TO answer the ques-
ton.
Capt. Finke was naturallzed in 1900.
He was indicted by II Federal Grand
Jury In Norfolk in May. 1912.
Bronkhor.,'s Employer Questioned
While the activities OF tho secret
service men and the investigators Of the
Department Of Justice turned yesterday
TO new fields of search concerning the
pro-German propaganda in this country.
the work Of the United States Attorney
was continued in the case OF Robert
Fay and his associates.
In the curse of the day DIR. Benedict
Lust, head OF Lusts Naturopath Sani-
tarium of Butler. y. j., where Engle-
bert Bronkhorst, accused In the bomb
conspiracy. was employed. was "a visitor
to the Federal Building. With him were
several of his employees who helped
construct IA watcrpipo line on the
estate under the direction Of Bronkhorst,
using dynamite In the work.
Or. Lust. who recently %returned from
California, was questioned at length
both by John q, Knox. special assistant
United States Attorney. and by secret
service men.
This whole affair Is foolish" he said.
"Bronkhorst never bought much dyna-
mite and what no did buy he used
properly"
Asked how he came TO meet Bronx
horst, Or. Lust went back twenty years.
IL spent a year in London twenty years
ago." he explained. IAN lived there
with n family who knew Bronkhorst
well. Bronkhorst at the time was In
South Africa, but he learned OF me
through that family. When the Euro
pean war rtarted he got out of work In
South Africa and came to this country
looking for a job as "a mining engineer,
He looked me up and as he could not
get the sort of job lie wanted. l finally
offered him work"
condos Clues Fail.