New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-27
Only Small Fry Now Are
Caught in Scheme to
Destroy Ships.
BPEITUNO ARREST
MAY FINISH CASE
Fav Had S500.000 Bribe Ready
10 Get ShipIoad of Copper.
Police Declare.


s,,srlte vessels and munition plants
vsrs interested in the plot the Federal
,,a eitv authorities yesterday decided
,h,. the arrest this morning Of Max
Br.itunc. when he arrives in this citj
from Chicago. will probably be the las;
arrest IN this case.
Hope Of learning the details Of the
understanding on which Lieutenan'
Robert Fay was given leave Of absence
from, the German army 70 come to TINS
country and Of getting the names Of
,.-.ors who sanctioned this move has
hssr & scoursced A second line OF
inror,ant inquiry that devoted 20
.e,kirg the intelligent source Of the
gao 900 fund 20 be employed in inter
ferire with the shipments Of munitions
IN tho Allies has been so unproductive
that Il has virtually been abandoned.
Il WAS declared yesterday that had
The police refrsined from arrestinS
Fav. Walter z. Sholz and Paul Daeehe
until later not only would the cases
against an five men have been strong
cr but greater success woud probably
have marked the efforts Of the Fed
eral authorities TO apprehend bigger
6gures N the conspiracy.
FAY and Sholz in Tombs.
rsv and Sholz we're brought to this
city from Weehavken yesterday morn
ing. following their change Of custody
from the New Jersey TO the Federal
police. and on srraignment before
United States Commissioner Haughton
in The Fedora Building yesterday
afternoon each was held In $4,000 bail
FOR examination OF November 4. They
were committed to the Tombs. Dr..
Herbert Kienzle, arraigned similarly
on Monday and held in the same
amount Of bail, is also in the Tombs.
Dseche refused 20 surrender him
self TO .he hands OF the Federal su-
thorities in New York. lie was ar
rsigned before United States Commits
sioner Carpenter in Jersey City and
held IN $4,000 bail for examination on
November g. His uncle, Emil Daeche,
lives az l4l Hutton Street. Jersey City,
where also the prisoner lived.
Breitung. cousin Of Edward y. Bret
iung and manager of the latter's min
ing Office at II Pine Street, this city,
left Chicago before noon yesterday for
New York, ready 20 surrender himself
on his arrival here. He will probably
get in early this morning.
II was easy 20 read in the demeanor
yesterday Of Chief William J. Flynn, of
the United Sta'es Secret Service, and
Assistant United States Attorney John
c. Knox that tLey felt an anti-climax
had been caused ly Police Department
orders 70 arrest Fay, Sholz and Daeche.
The Federal authorities. who had the
case in hand, were certain that the
three men engaged IN experimenting"
IN the woods q; Crantwood. y. j., were
Of comparafis- unimportance IN the
dynamitng plos. They had been under
cose suri .IiIanrc oy the New York
police for several days prior TO the ar.
rests, and 10 nave permitted them to
continue working TO d point just short
OF actually blowing up a vessel or a
mOniton factory would have built up
stronger case against them, and also
would have afforded greater oppor-
iunity for discovering the other per
sons believed 20 have been party to the
plans
Plot Evidence Is Thwarted.
Nothing IN the confessions made by
any Of the prisoners has been OF as
sistance in digging deeper into the
piot, and the connection so far estab-
hshed between the German govern
inoent and these men is but a spidery
thread
Chief Flynn and Assistant Prosecutor
hno1 were principally anxious TO learn
me identities Of the members OF the
herman ring IN this city that contrib
u'ed 70 the fund the purpose OF which,
IS believed, was 10 conduct the bomb
campaign on a scale much greater than
'he operations Of the men under arrest
would reasonably picture.
Up 20 last Sunday, when Fay and
SholZ were taken into custody, the
United States District Attorneys Office
aad gained knowledge of contributions
ey men Of German sympathies, but II
mad not been learned 10 what this
money was 10 be turned nor had II
been learned just where this money
went
II was while work was being done
on this. in the hope of connecting the
discovered contributions with the bomb
conspiracy, that the police made their
ma move in the cases Of Fay and
cholt. The men who made the actual
arrests, detectives from New York,
we're acting under orders. and il IS
oeheved that the person OF persons
greeting the movements of the New
iors detectives either fell victims 10
nervous excitement or were seized with
rear that the United States Secret Ser
vice would step in and win the glory.
IN 'heir talks with Fay and Sholz
yesterday, Captain Tunney and Lieu
enant George Bsrnitz, Of the Detective
bureau, got very little added material
work on. Fay, Captain Tunney said.
.oio him that II had been planned 10
'ynsrite munitions factory.
Pay wouldn't name the factory or
.ell me where IL was" Tunney said.
~ was not intended. according 20 Fay.
~ XII any one. Fay said they just
nn,eo 70 cripple the operation of the
Plant for few days.
ne also told me that he had dis
'sssed another plan with Paul Slcb.
.sleo' German army officer. known
e'o ss Karl r. Oppegsard. is q gov
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