Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-25
ARREST LEADERS
IN BIG BOMB PLOT
Secret Service Men Unearth
Scheme to Blow Up Munition
Plants and Steamships.
TWO GERMANS IN CUSTODY
More Than Enough Explosive to
Destroy Entire Island of
Manhattan Found.
TWO GERMANS IN CUSTODY
Especial to The Timcs-Dispa,ch. ]

earthed what they declare to be
gigantic plot to blow up munition
plants and steamships.
Two men. alleged leaders of the plot
were arrested in n wood at Cirantwood.
y. j. At the time they were testing
"a small bomb. filled with tri-nitrate
toluol. the hghes: and most deadly
explosive known.
In series Of raids Immediately after
the arrest of the two men. the police
captured and coniiscated the following:
Twenty-Five pounds Of tr-nitrate of
toluol. more than enough 10 blow up
the entire Island Of Manhattan.
Twenty-Five large sticks Of dynamite.
Five ingenious mines. built TO bc at
tachcd TO the screw of a steamship.
with time-clock attachment, and worth
$1,000 each.
Two hundred clcverly constructed
bomb cylinders.
\ complete chart of New York har-
Dor. showing the location OF fortiiica-
tions and all steamship piers.
one high powered motor boat.
one high powered automobile of for
eign make
Two hundred percussion caps.
Two automatic pistols of German
make. fully loaded. and u long knife.
The men under arrest are Robert
Fay. thirty-four years old. said to be
lieutenant in the German army. and
his brother-in-law Walter Scholz
thirty-two, who for the past week have
been living in the boarding house Of
Mrs. Walter Harbinson. at ~ Fifth
street. Weehawken.
From April last up until week ago
the two men lived in the boarding
house OF Mrs Robert Stuart on Fourth
Street, Union Hill. " i.
FIND SCORE; OF LETTERS
WRITTEN IN GERMAN
In addition to the articles mentioned.
the officials captured score of letters
written in German. The envelopes of
each had been destroyed. as had the
signatures: They also contiscated the
passports. OF Fay aud Scholz They
| showed that the two men had been in
this country for TWO years
Other letters and papers taken by
the officials indicate that both men are
members Of the German Wilhelmstrasse
Guard.
Although they have been in this
country hut TWO years. both speak per
feet English. Despite sensational
and dramatic arrest, they were cool
and calm when taken to the West
Hobokcn Police Station. They declined
TO give any information about them
selves or TO discuss in any way the
( discriminating articles coniiScated.
The arrests were made by Secret Ser
vice Operatives lanes Savage and
James Burke: Detectives BarnitZ. Cox.
Steerett. Walsh. Murphy and Fcnnelly.
of the New York City force. who
crossed into New Jersey to aid in the
capture. and two Wcehawken dctec-
tives.
The first information that the Two
foreigners might be engaged in some
kind Of plot was secured more than
six weeks ago by Detective Lyons OF
the WcehaWken police.
Lyons learned that the two men had
made three purchases OF toluol. TWO OF
ten pounds each, and one OF nvc
pounds. From whom the explosive was
, purchased. the officials will not say
The enormous quantities of the deadly
explosive. bought by the same men
first attracted attention 10 them. Toluol
is usually sold in ounces
TWO MEN SHADOWED
FOR SEVERAL. WEf.iIS
For several weeks the two men We're
shadowcd and finally located in the
nome of Mrs. Stuart. at Union Hill The
officials. however were unable, AT tina.
time because OF lack OF evidence. to
/ arrcs, them.
Just about the ;iinc the officials were
/ ready to act, they disappeared. II was
not until Friday that they were located
in the hcmc of Mrs. IIarbnson. Sine"
that time they have been followed
everywhere
Meantime the Federal authorities had
been notified. and took charge Of the
case. Fearing the two men would put
UP Il desperate resistance. they sum
( moned the New York detectives to as
sist In the arrest.
Fay and ScholZ left thci" boarding
house this morning about 10 o'clock and
went to "a dense wood Just back of Grant
wood. IL was an ideal place for the
detectives to surround them. for the
officials were screened by a dense un-
dergrowth.
The detectives declare that they
caught the two men in the act OF plac-
! ing quantity OF toluol i'm one of the
/ small bombs. Al signal they closed
in on them. Realizing that they were
out utnumbarcd they did not nut IN n
| light. hut readily accompanied the de-
! tectivcs to the police station.
| After they had bccn locked up. the
detectives went to the two rooms the
men occupied on the first floor Of Mrs.
! IIarbinson's home. Here they cap
/ tured the toluol and the dynamite.
| which were in one suit case. while an
other was filled with the bomb cyIin-
! ders and percussion ears.
GET MINES, MOTOR ROAT
! AND ALSO AN AUTGMORILI.
| They next visited RcichtcrsS Storage
| Warehouse. ut PA Clinton Avenue.
! West Hoboken. where the five mines
were stored The mines are four feet
lonE and one and onc-halt feet wide.
! They are painted a dark green color.
so that ii would he most difficult TO
detect them rs they rode In the water.
| The motor boat Was taken from Dee
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