The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-16
FAY TAXES FIVE HOURS ID MAKE
 HIS CONFESSION
German Lieutenant" Makes Full Confession-Appar- entity Wishes to Serve
 Sentence

New York, November 15.-Robert Fay, and by his own confession head of a gang of bombmakers that sought to dis able or destroy munitions laden ships sail ing from New York to the entente allies. told the story of his life today to Assist ant United States District Attorney Knox. Fay talked freely. fully and of his own volition for five hours without interruption What he said was not made public but MT. Knox announced that all Fay wanted to do now was to plead guilty to the governments charges against him and go to jail.
 P. J. Mcdonald, a lawyer appointed to represent Fay, sought to see his client in MT. Knoxs office; but. failing, served on MT. Knox notice of his intent to de mur to the indictment. Fay read the demurrer while the lawyer waited out side, and, according to MT. Knox, said he did not wish to demur to the indict- ment or to do anything else but plead guilty and start at once to serve his sentence.
 No Immunity Promised
 Fay's long talk with MT. Knox was upon his own solicitation and without promise of immunity or leniency. The statement which the prisoner dictated carried him back to Germany almost to the date of his birth, covered the high lights of his service in the German army told in detail of his alleged mission to America and recited his movements and activities here.
 Whether 1t was true in it's essentials District Attorney Marshall said after wards had yet to be determined but in some respects it was verified by informa- tion the government had collected from other sources.
 There is no doubt Mir. Marshall said. that his name is really Fay and that he served in the German army. As to the rest we don't know. His statement differs somewhat from his previous story but admits his guilt of the charges against him.
 What Fay told Mir. Knox leads back to a source to which already has been traced another case under investigation by the government. according to Roger B. Wood, an assistant In MT. Marshall s office. MT. Wood has prepared most of the cases in the passport frauds and
 
 against Karl Buenz and other officials of the Hamburg American line. indicted on a charge of conspiracy and to be place on trial this week.
 ''F'ive cases of this sort lead back to four sources,' Mr. Wood said They are the Fay case. the Buenz case and the three passport cases In none of the cases did the actual defendants know what the defendants in the other cases were doing The four sources, however directing these five cases are very close together-very. II is my belief that these four men all reported to and took their orders from fifth man who was the dir ector. of all the trouble of this sort in the United States.
 If you could prove this" MT. Wood was asked, would you or could you prosecute this fifth man?"
 s.All can say to that he replied, ''is that under the law we cannot prosecute diplomatic representatives of a foreign country.''
 When Fay ended his statement late to- day he was taken back to the Tombs to remain there until tomorrow, when he will be questioned by MT Knox The statement of today was made without questioning or prompting. It contains many leads. it is said, about which the governments lawyers want more informa- tion.
 Both Mir. Marshall and Mr. Knox sde- clined to say if anyone else was impli- cated in F'ay's statement. It Is unlikely however, that there will be other arrests in the alleged plot, at least until Fay'A latest confession is corroborated.