The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-26
CONFESSION Of
GERMAN LIEUT..
UNDER ARREST
REPRE- SENTING THE BERLIN
GOVERNMENT, HE CAME HERE
WITH CLOCk-WoRk DEVICE TO
BLOW UP SHIPS.

} New York, oct 2J.-Details of
. plot to hamper the shipment of mi
l nitions Of war to the allies by pacin
| cioCA-work bombs on the rudders o
- prolellers Of ships so timed that tn
, ships would be disabled on their wa
across the Atlantic, were disclose
Monday in the confession of one o
five men charged in a complaint file,
with a United States commissions
witt conspiracy to violate fedora
statute
Following the confession Of Rober
Fay, a lieutenant of the Sixtcentl
SaXony infantry, who admitted tha
he came to this country last Apri
through an agreement with the Ger
man secret service to blow up or de
lay steamers laden with war supple!
for the allies, William j. Flynn, chic
of the secret service, Monday night
filed before United States Commits
sioner Houghton a complaint in which
| Flynn and four other men were charg
ed with promoting the conspiracy. The
hearing on the federal charge was SET
Tor 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 well received by the
German secret service; that he came
well enough supplied with money
to act on his own responsibility; and
that he talked with Captain Won Pa
pen, military attache, and Captain
X. Boy-Ed, naval attache, of the Ger
man embassy, about the plan, but
they had refused to have anything to
do with it.
covers Months Of Activity.
The confession of Fay, who said he
had been decorated with the iron
cross for fighting, covers his arrival
April % last: his making of clock
worked bombs since then, and his
experimenting with explosives along
the Hudson river Quantities OF acid
in the room occupied by Fay and
Walter l.. Scholz in Weehawken,
n. j., and boxes, each containing 120
pounds of chlorate of potash, used
in making so-called sugar bombs, in
boat house on the Hudson had been
found after the arrest of these men
on Sunday. Scholz, a brother-in-law
of Fay, is a mechanic.
Two other men were arrested Mon
day, and another, making the fifth,
was named in the complaint, but he
had not been apprehended. The new
arrests were: Paul Meache, Jersey
City, N. j., who said he was a grad.
uate Of Cologne university and came
to the United states in 1892.
Dr. Herbert Kienzle, 2S years old,
of a clock company charged
in the complaint with having aided in
explosive materials used
by Fay, was committed to the Tombs
for examination on November 4.
Max Breitung, about whose identity
no details were disclosed, also was
in the complaint as one of the
1t was stated that Brei-
tung had not been apprehended.
Former German Soldier Witness.
Chief Flynn stated that Paul Seibs,
formerly of the German army, had
become a government witness.
The two men had been watched by
New York detectives for two months.
They were seen to pay frequent visits
to an isolated spot in the woods of
Grantwood, \. j., on the Palisades,
near Weehawken. On Saturday last,
hidden in tree top, watch
ed the scene of their activities for
eleven hours.
They say they saw the two men
come there late at night and test an
explosive by blowing up a tree. Again
the police watched in the
Woods and saw Fay and Scholz burn |
ing powder and testing an explosive.
When the test was completed the
detectives arrested them. According
to the police, Fay offered $1,000 to .
be set free.
For more than twelve hours, it
was said, Fay stuck to his original
story that he was not connected with
the German government. At $50
this morning, according to the com
missioner, he broke down and ad-
mitted that he was a lieutenant in
The German army and came to this
two or three months ago
with a machine containing high ex-
1losives. This machine the commits
3loner said, was to be attached to
he propeller or rudder Of ship. The
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