New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-22
KIENzLE'S TRAIL
LEADS TO K0ENIG
IN CRYPTIC DIARY
CleWs Wrested from Ger
man Chief Are Welded
Into Bomb Plot.
CANAL CONSPIRACY
TOLD IN DETAIL
Metzler Says Embassy Ofhcial
Knew of Secrets-Spy in Nor
CANS Office, Is Report.

Knew of Secrets-Spy in Nor
CANS Office, Is Report.
Government agents, taking tip from
an entry in little leather-bound note
book which was once one OF Paul koe-
nig's most jealousy guarded posses
sions, are tracing a connection between
the activities of the Hamburg-American
Lines so-called "chief of police and
those Of DR.. Herbert Kienzle, indicted
in the Fay bomb case.
That the paths OF the two have run
together the authorities are convinced,
for DR.. Kienzles name is one of the
few things recorded in the notebook
which they have been able to decpher.
Except for DR.. Kiensle's name and a
half dozen others the scrawings in the
book seem cryptograms. Once the key
has been found the investigators be-
lieve they will find themselves in pos
session Of perhaps the most valuable
batch Of plotbund clews which has yet
bobbed up.
Although United States District At
torney Marshall is convinced that
Frederick Metzler has told all he knows
to the Federal grand jury, the investi-
gators are looking TO the youth for one
more service. They think that in the
four years he acted as Koenig's private
secretary he may have learned enough
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puzzles Of the notebook.
Metzler Closes Testimony.
Metzler closed his grand jury testi-
mony yesterday afternoon. lie recited
, i'm detail. according 10 Assistant United
States District Attorney Wood, how
German secret agents planned to blow
up the Welland Canal In Canada. Part
of his testimony covered a trip made
by Koenig 10 Washington with papers
purloined from the National City Bank.
These papers are said to have been
carried in a suitcase, and were later
transferred TO tr nix. One key of the
trunk was kept by Koenig and second
is said to have been given 10 an official
in the German Embassy. Koenig at this
time was under surveillance.
The case Of "Labor's National
Peace Council" the organization
through which Captain Franz Won Rim
telen, now a prisoner in England, is
said to have worked to bring about
strikes in munitions plants, was taken
up by second grand jury.
Samuel Gompers, head of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, who came up
from Washington in response to a sub
pena, spent two hours in conference
with the District Attorney before he
went before the grand jury. He showed
Mr.. Marshall number OF documents,
letters and circulars. Their contents
served to convince the prosecutor that
none but the "pikers" among labor
leaders had accepted money from the
plotters.
"Gompers confirmed my opinion that
none of the important labor leaders
and none of the unions themselves,
were corrupted" said Mr.. Marshall.
When ne came from the grand jury
room Gompers said he had told the jury
that he had seen things (which consti-
tuted an industrial and moral wrong"
Gompers Against War Strikes.
"In regard to fomenting strikes,
mean," he explained. 81 told them it
was against the interests of the United
States, and was likely to embroil US
rather than to end the war in Europe"
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, followed
Gompers before the grand jury. He is
on the programme as the chief witness,
although it was said Gnmpers might be
recalled.
The big trunk seized in the raid OF
J., A., ,,.L I'll IL -
of Koenig, Metzler and X. Emil Leyen-
decker, the Fifth Avenue antique
dealer, was transferred from the Ire
mont station to headquarters while the
boy secretary was completing his con-
fession.
When it was pried open detectives
brought forth a bundle of newspaper
clippings relating 10 accidents" in
munitions plants and many letters
For the most part the letters were
written in German, and a number APP
parently were coded. The letters are
being examined carefully for evidence
connecting Leyendecker with the plot
against the Welland Canal 1t was in
his home in Daily Avenue, in The Bronx,
that the trunk was found.
Expert on Canadian Waterways.
1t now appears that George Fuchs,
one of those suspected in the alleged
canal conspiracy, was well acquainted
with the Canadian waterway and the
country through which lit passes. He
had worked for several years for the
Union Carbide Company in Welland,
Ont, as George Fox. He was taken for
an Englishman and permitted to pass
to and fro over - border without
question Fuchs told the police that
ne refused the job when Koenig
wanted him to elbow up the canal"
In the afternoon there was a rumor
in the Federal Building that series of
thefts similar to that in the National
City Bank had led to the dismissal Of
an employe of j. p. Morgan & Co.
With the rumor went a supposed off,
cial denial, explaining that The EN-.
ploye was discharged because he had
violated the firms rule against specu.
lation.