The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-26
OBJECT WAS TO BLOW UP
ALLIES MUN|T|ON SHIPS
Robert Fay, German Lieuten-
ant, Explains Mission in
United States.
IN THE SECRET SERVICE.
Had No Connection With Embassy,
Members of Which Told Him to
Keep Hands OF.


New York. Oct. 25.-Details OF a
plot to hamper the shipment of muni-
tionS of war to the allies by placing
clock-worked bombs on the rudders
or propellers of ships so timed that
the ships would be disabled on their
way across the Atlantic, were dis
closed today in the confession of one
of five men charged in a complaint
filed with a United States Commits
sioner with conspiracy to violate a
federal statute.
Following upon the confession of
Robert Fay, lieutenant Of the Six
teenth Saxony infantry, who said he
'ame to this country last April
through a nagreement with the Ger.
man secret service to blow up or de-
lay steamers laden with war supplies
for the allies. William ]. Flynn, chief
of the secret service tonight filed be-
fore United States Commissioner
Houghton a complaint in which not
only Fay but four other men are
charged with promoting the con-
piracy. The hearing on the federal
charge was set for November 4.
Fay confessed that while on the
battlefield he talked with his superior
officers about a device to blow up
ships, that later his idea of coming
to America and carrying his scheme
through was we'll received by the
German secret service, that he came
we'll enough supplied with money to
act or his own responsibility and that
he talked with Captain Won Papen,
military atache and Captain Boy-Ed,
naval attache of the German en-
bassy, about the plan, but they had
refused to have anything to do with
it.
The confession of Fay, who said he
had been decorated with the iron
cross for fighting in France, covers
his arrival in the United States on
April % last, his making of clock
worked bombs since and his expert
menting with the explosives along
the Hudson river. Quantities of acid
in the room occupied by Fay, and
Walter l.. Scholz in Weehawken. n.
j.. and boxes containing chlorate OF
potash, had been found after the ar
rest of these men Sunday Scholz.
brother-in-law of Fay, is a mo-
chanic.
Two other men were arrested to-
day and another, making the fifth,
was named in the complaint, but he
had not been apprehended The new
arrests were:
Paul Daeche, Jersey, City, N. j.,
who said he was graduate of
Cologne University and came to the
United States in 1912
DR.. Herbert Kienzle, % years old
manager of clock company, charged
in the complaint with having aided in
procuring explosive materials used
by Fay, committed to the Tombs for
examination on November 4.
Max Breitung, about whose ident-
ity no details were disclosed, also
was named in the complaint as one
of the conspirators. 1t was stated
that Breitung had not been appre-
hended
In his complaint to Commissioners
Houghton. Chief Flynn stated that
Paul Siebs, formerly of the German
army, had become government wit
ness. 1t was set forth that Siebs had
received money from Fay and Brei-
tung for chlorate of potash, said to
have been part Of the material found
by detectives in the boathouse.
The men are charged with conspir-
ing TO violate a section of the United
States criminal code which says:
"Whoever upon the high seas or
in any other waters within the ad-
miralty and maritime Jurisdiction OF
the United States by surprise or by
open force maliciously attacks or sets
upon any vessel belonging to another
with an intent unlawfully to piunder
the same or to despoil any owner
thereof any money, goods or mer.
chandise laden on board thereof,
shall be fined"
Dramatic Author Dead.