The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-26
Plot TO Cripple Munitions
Ships Known to kaisers
Secret Service.
TWO MORE ARRESTS:
SEEK MAX BREITUNG
Fay. Head Of Plan. Talks
Freely. but Embassy Of
ficialS Are Silent.

A tail. boysh looking German army
c1i,,r WIN has faced the fire of the
French 80 mliimctcr guns in the present
va. ,ui won the Iron Cross sat smiling
and collected in cell in the weehawken
police station yesterday and told how,
With permission OF the German secret
Office. he had worked here for six
months o. plans to tie mines to munitlon
carrying ships sailing from this country.
He wished lie said. merely to incapaci-
tate the ships and not to kill anybody.
The oiliccr-!t was Lieut.. Robert Fay
Of the Fifteenth Prussian Infantry. who
with Walter Scholz had been arrested
on Sunda! lis the central figure in n
carefully devised scheme for stopping
the export OF arms and ammunition 20
The Allies. AS a result of the informa-
tIon which the New York police. the
Nethawken police and the secret service
have obtained four men accused OF being
In the plot have been arrested. One
other man is being sought
accused OF P1Ot to OestrOy Ships.
The five notwithstanding Paul Daesche,
German OF 81 who was arrested in
Jersey City yesterday at daybreak. and
D.. Otto kienzle, a clock maker OF 3Oy
West Eighty-sixth street---are accused OF
plotting 10 destroy ocean liners. d..
Eienzle has charge OF the Kienzle Clock
Company OF II Park place. and Is the
son " II German owning large clock
WORKS IN the fatherland. He was ar
rested yesterday afternoon OH Federal
Warrant.
In addition 10 these men a warrant Is
on for the arrest OF Max Breitung. sec
rel'ry and treasurer OF the OIL Well
supply Company OF 30 West street. who
= SAID 10 have supplied large part OF a
.l'd which, according to secret service
o'h'h's. Fay and his aids have spent.
Nu.,e the live men are the object
OF 'J' charges made in Federal war
faat issucd yesterday afternoon only
j.. k'cnzlc has been taken by the
lI'ci states authorities. Three others.
Fay SChulZ and DaesChc. are held by
tF Netnawken police. leaving the fifth
nan .'lll AT large. It Is expected that
b. to-day the four men now in custody
W.! pe taken by the Federal authorities
tE . single charge.
statute of Piracy Invoked.
The section OF the United States Penal
Cole under which the charge was made
II kienzle is POS and II provides
., follows:
Whoever. upon the high seas or on
a} other waters within the admiralty
o. maritime Jurisdiction of rhe United
States. by surprise or by open force,
nnlciously attacks or sets upon any
vessel belonging 10 another, with an
Eirnt unlawfully to plunder the same.
o. 10 despoil any owner thereof OF
az moneys. goods or merchandise
laden on board thereof shall be fined
mot more than five thousand dollars
anG imprisoned not more than ten
ycaIs.
While Lieut. Fay and Scholz say they
f"Ho are to blame in the conspiracy 10
d'sthl" ships laden with munitions and
Wat hey have been working absolutely
o their own authority the Federal au.
INoI't's in Washington are not inclined
!" iaE" this view. Fay asserts he IL
'h' hrd OF the whole scheme Schoiz
says Do" Is merely hired assistant and
German reservst.
FROM Washington comes the report
'hat M" Federal authorities have had
uhd"r investigation plots by other groups
similar 10 the one disclosed through the
hNNi\ Of the New York police. Fay
fSSrIts he acted with the permission
"' th" Herman secret service. The Fed
erai authorities are waiting to see II
h' men Ia the present group had any
'nih"'u"n with other German agents
throughout the country. Significance Is
attached 10 the fact that Fay had ex-
p"''H To- start to-day for Massachu
SOUS ON important business.
\ great mass OF German correspond
'"'' '"llrd among the effects Of Fay
hh1 S'Aolz was being translated and
studied Yesterday. Up to "A late hour
I''' night the local authorities insisted
"t' 'urr" was no clue leading from
''N'r Fay or Scholz to any persons
Connected indirectly with Frank Holt
" MH'u',r, who shot j. r. Morgan,
imr"rtnnt Facts Learned.
'I' Of the evidence discovered by
,n' nNnlcipal and Federal agents-th,
,'a'i'a- of pounds Of ingredients OF
''E' 'Ni loslvrs, steel caskets for con-