Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-10-25
THREE HELD IN
DYNAMITE PLOT
ON LINERS HERE
Bombs Found in Germans
Room in WeehaWken Board
ing House.
ONE MAN SAID TO BE A
GERMAN ARMY OFFICER
Police Declare He Has Con-
fessed-To Get Hearing
Tomorrow.
Special to the Evening Star.

Special to the Evening Star.
WEEHAWK EN-, Oct 25.-Robert
Fay, who claims to be lieutenant of
the Sixteenth Saxony Infantry, ad-
mitted today that he came here last
April, through an arrangement with
the German secret service, for the
purpose of blowing up or delaying
steamers sailingA from this country
with arms and ammunition for the
allies.
Fay claimed, however, that while he
had been here he had acted inde-
pendently of the German embassy, or
other German agents here. He added
that he had told Captain von Papen,
military attache, and Captain K
Boy-Ed, naval attache of the German
embassy, of his plans, but said that
both men told him not to interfere
with steamers sailing from American
ports, or American ammunition
plants.
Fay and his grother-in law, Walter
L. Scholz, were arraigned earlier in
the day on charges of conspiracy,
and were held without bail for an ex-
animation tomorrow. Fay and Scholz
were arrested by New York and New
Jersey detectives near Grantwood late
Sunday, while the two men were ex-
perlmenting with explosives.
Paul Daeche, of Jersey City, who
was arrested at his home early to-
day, was also arraigned with Fay and
Scholz. He was charged with con-
spiracy and held without bail. Detec-
tives said however, that Daeche had
given them much valuable informa-
ton and they expected him to be an
important witness in the case. Fay
said that while serving in the field
with the German army he invented n
device for blowing up ships. He ex-
planned that he made the device after
the French artillery. espeeiallv the Sc
Imillimeter guns, had bothered his reg
ment a great deal
Statement Is Made.
Police announced that Fay had
made a complete confession of his
activities during his stay here and
later the prisoner gave out a state
ment to the newspaper In that NJ
said:
MY only object when I came tC
| this country was to interfere with
| the enormous shipment of artillery
ammunition to the allies. Being n
manufacturer myself, and Knowing
that any ordinary damage that may
be done to factory may be repaired
within a few hours I decided it was
useless to bother with ammunition
plants. Therefore the intimations
that I have been connected with va
rious explosions or accidents that
have occurred in such plants in the
United States is entirely wrong.
/ am not n college man, but ]
hold the diploma of an efficiency
engineer from an American Cores
pondence School. / am interested ir
n plant that Is manufacturing small
machinery.
'I was serving with my regiment
In the Champagne district and saw
the terrible havoc and loss caused by
the French artillery fire Several
French batteries at a certain point
were annoying us. We made a night
attack and dynamited the guns, but
to our great dismay we found next
day that the dynamited guns had
been replaced These were of the 75-
millimeter type.
An Inventor.
During my spare time | had in
vented a device to explode mines by
ODlflB away WIFI eIeClTlCdl WlT11B. Ii
this way I was able to overeome the
egect of dampness or water on the
wires. I applied to the colonel of my
regiment and he decided to give me a
chance. He put me in touch with
tho secret service office and one OF
the agents arranged for my passage
to the United States. l came here on
the steamship Rotterdam, arriving,
believe, on April % last. [ had nc
trouble in getting into the country"
Evidence Ageinst the Men.
The most concrete evidence the
authorities secured against the mer
was their equipment. Among tbeir
effects were:
A chart of New York harbor, show
ing locations of all steamship piers.
Two hundred bomb cylinders,
Twenty-Five pounds of tri-nitrate OF
toluol.
twenty-five sticks Of dynamite.
Four hundred percussion caps.
Five ingenius mines, each capable
of blowing a liner to pieces. with time
clock attachments.
Two automatic revolVers and sew
eral knives,
A motorboat and an automobile.
The motorboat and automobile arC
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