The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-21
ARCHIBALD, HOME. SAYS HE DIDN'T
 KNOW MESSAGES
Correspondent Who Bore Note From Dr. Dunba Causing
 Request For Latters Recall, Denies He Had Been Told Contents of Message Says He Was Well
 Treated By British Authorities After His Arrest

New work. Sept. 21.-James F. J. Ar ea5stsaad. atfle American var-correspond- piat, in 5vhose possession was Iouno' sz zftla others the letter from pr con con rf,4sftfn Theodor Dumba, the Austro-- S7s1dr,saria1a. A Ambassador to Count Bur faxl the Minister for Foreign AfIalrs E, Msanua.e submitting a~plan to stie up iAraericar 1nunition works by striKes, le vSl3Sasla letter sresulted in thetrequesl Dy fse159Assstnry, of Estate Lansing for the re- EEssS5 -,e1 tra Anbassador arrived in s5ssxxy+ York on the Honand-AIner1can 5sTarses sFsosterdam yesterday morning T..atew Sir.s floral statement he declared kl1a tssI Iae eIzd no idea of the nature oI khe Durnba.. document and tn<as uhlI ltll.s = ,.Eas. made public after 1t was selzeo s,g sffSEa sFsritishS authorities at Falmouth. sns ffynuzht it was merely personaif aaf4er{l1tended by Dr. Dumba to 1ac11-g Archibaldss work as a coITespon-- dent with the Austro-Hungaraan ar n1les.3
 H1urntaasto Count Burian. and one rom rom Ir.s4+aira won Papen. the Military AL farl,e of the German Embassy, to n6xna. von. Papen, Mr. Arch1btzid saad he also scarr7ed asnote from scouhI voli won El3frn storzf. the German Arabassaoor. le .sdrazsed to Mime won Ber4istprHs ana Ezr;nfs1er from Prince von Hatzfeldt or laF,s r7erulzar sEsnn bassy,f addressed to EFsrincess won Hatzfeldt- He sa1d ne fExvas lcenfidef1 these two letters were iaf,4fratv harmless although he adml1- lSe57 7f4f1ev were sealed and he was ig- Inorant Of their contents With eacn letter went a present, that from Count von BaEnstorn to his wife Delng srier,yx- while Prince von fHatzfeldtss gift to the Princess was cut glass Don- hon, dish The British authorities re- tuned the clock and dishs but kept the letters
 Mystery of a GoId-EIeaded Cane
 rn addition to. the letters to Mne-. won BernstorR and Princess von Hatz- sfe1df the existence of which had nor 1before been publicly known, there was also a gold-headed cane 1haf cams 759vster7ousfy into the Arch1 bald story vre~ferdav. MT Archibald says he does not know anything about the gold ihAaded cane, and he so informed Ch1ef Flynn of the United States Secret ser vice. who met him off Quarantine ana questioned him regarding the cane
 scyl1ief Flynn asked me, said Ar el,3bald. Aif before [ left I had been eIxen for s1ny own personal use or to s7reseft fokso1ne person a goId-headed cane As I had not told that knew not11ing about any such cane He wanted to know if I knew any thing about a cane that might have been hollow and therefore useful l imagine. for the concealment@ or pa uers He asked me if I would say on my honor that knew nothing Of E such a cane and assured him that that did make the statement on Iny4 hon- or. for I certainly do not know any thing about such cane
 when seen on the Rotterdan- MT. sArebfzsaad who was met at Quaran- tine by his lawyer, Frank J. Hogan of Washington, refused to make any stafemeut for publication He was questioned officially only by Chief Flynn, and it was not untal lale 1es ln 3 the afternoon tthat he told of Chief l Fslvnn.s quest of the go1d-headed $, Al his office in the Marbridge sBuffdine, Sixth Avenue and Thirty fifth street, MT Archibald, latesin the afternoons issued the following state nasnt:
 Not a .sDispatch Bearer-s'
 se1hen I arrived in America this I morning I had practically no infor- nation regarding the unfortunate af- fair involved in the sending by the Austrian Ambassador to the Minister T for Fsorefgn Affairs. Of his country of 3 letter by me, and hence refrained from making any statement until could become at least slightly ac- ouafnted with what has .been said 1T
 
 pie statement of the true facts. of the case.
 tone thing wish to state emphati f,aIlv and that is that I was in nc tsense a dispatch bearer for any lone. but what did was done merely las an accommodation to friends Nat suraIIy, before leaving for belligeren territory to do field work with ar mics engaged in the war; I sough fnrouer letters of introduction and re comu1endation, and the day before
 sailed several such letters were sen ito my hotel. These letters were most slv in German, and as I am not prof cient in reading that language dic not seek to translate them With thu exception of a couple of notes accom- uanying trifing gifts of a personal na fture I supposed that all these letter were in relation to my work, and il fact [ did not know, nor do I nov know. anything of their contents Ina some of them were sealed did not oc casion any surprise, official letter of introduction are frequently de1iv cred sealed
 saI read only one letter in particu lar which I had asked Prince Hatz feldt to have written for me. and i fact I myself suggested, almost wor for word it's contents. Feeling tha there might be a strong anti-Americas sentiment in Germany, and not know ing to what extent that might incon venience those travelling with me.
 asked Prince Hatzfe1dt to prepare m an open letter stating that I wa friendly to their cause; this was
 letter of only couple of lines tha could be read in moment in case Q necessity and intended to be used on1
 in the event we were subjected to an local hostile demonstration. Ther
 were q few letters to officials, bu
 these of course I had not examined
 .'Dr. Dumba's letter was given to m
 most openly at the last moment O
 the dock at the foot of the steamer
 gang-plank just before sailing Hun
 dreds-of persons were about, and ther
 was not the slightest suggestion of SC
 crecy. Of it's contents had absolute ! ' l1z casa.leelsza ,nzas. srr,.-