The Washington times., 1915-12-20
CONFESSION BARES
CANAL CONSPIRACY
Aide Of Alleged Chief PIptter
Says Strong Guard FOiIed
Plans.
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were in the corridor Of the Federal
building today waiting to go before the
grand jury.
The arrest Saturday Of Frederick
! Scheindl. q clerk in the National City
I Bank, charged with selling Information
to Koenig today resulted in an invesu-
cation of all its employees by the bank.
| Similar inquiries were made by nearly
| all big financial institutions here haV-
| Ing trade with the allied governments.
Scheindl is said to have been on koe-
| nig's pay roll as CLERK at 20 y
week. His name also was mentioned
! today I'm Metzler's confession, the Gov
ernment said.
| A woman entered the canal dynamit-
ing conspiracy investigation today when
Mrs. Herman Fuchs. aunt OF Paul
Koenig. accused head of the Hamburg
! American lines secret service. arrived
/ here in response to Government sub
poena to go before the Federal grand
| jury.
subpoenaed with Mrs Fuches are
Count r, Neihaus. d. w. Schcwartz.
and NHans Schwartz. employed in Buff
falo power plant. All are residents OF
! Niagara Falls. Buffalo is said by Gov
ernment investigators to have been the
operating point for the conspiracy to
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Summary of Events.
To nut in review the events that have
resulted in. disaster for the Germans:
Three men now are serving sem
tences either in the penitentiary on
Rlackwells Island or in the Federal
prison in Atlanta for passport
| frauds. These schemes were nipped
in their incipiency. but they cost the
| nnnSnirp nj least SlUDOOD.
The project of Capt. Franz Won
Rintelen. special agent of the Kai-
| ser. to put Gen. Victoriano Huerta
back into power in Mexico came to
| disaster with the arrest OF the for
| mer President just as he was about
to cross the border. RAISING the tlg-
ures on the cost of the ammunition
shipped and confscated in Havana
| and the bribes paid to followers OF
| villa, the cost OF floating the enter
prise to the point where Huerta
could return to Mexico was not
penny less than S5OO0OOO.
Waste of 100000.
The Hamburg -AmeriC an paid out
100000 for the equipment Of
| feet OF supply vessels to aid the
commerce. raiding cruisers of Ger
many. OF the twelve vessels that
were fitted ont only one delivered
supplies at the destination planned.
because the Cap Trafalgar. aboard
! which they were Shipped. was
sunk n few hours after the loading.
| Or. Karl Buenz. managing director
| of the Hamburg American, and
three other officials of the line have
been convicted aud sentenced to At
l8ntn penitentiary.
Lieut. Robert. E'aV enlisted q group
OF men and $Jn.On0 for his pl1n to
attach ms rine mines 10 the hulls OF
vessels carrying mutations. He wRs
seized. and his alleged conspirators
also were arrested, before single
mine had been set. |They are await
ing trial.
Wilton For Strikes.
For the organization of labor
and the fomentlng of strikes among
unions the German agents have ex-
pended more than S1.0O0.OOO None OF
these inspired. strikes assumed Sc
rlous PROPORTIONS The corruption
OF labor involved only few minor
leaders. TODAY the Federal grand
jury will begin taking testimony to
ascertain the scope of that conspir-
acy. Samuel Gompers and other Of
? ficers of the American Federation
of Labor are TO testify.
The force of thirty men that koe-
mig had at his orders and the am
bilious size of the plan to blow up
the Welland canal argue $1,00OOO0
fair figure for this plot, the Federal
investigators calculate. This plan,
a too. was frustrated before blow
: had been struck. and four men are
under arrest in connection with 1t.
Beyond these results. consisting
, almost solely of arrests and expense,
the most conspicuous effect of all
these conspira cies has been the re-
call of DR.. Dumba. the Austrian
ambassador. and of Captain Boy-Ed
and Captain Won PaDen. attaches OF
the German embassy.
The Justice Department believes tina
, the backbone of bomb plots in thi
country has been broken with the al