The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-13
Brothers Planned to Charge Transatlantic Trust Go. Was Making Enormous Profits by Appropriating Difference Made by Money Exchange Rates.

That Alexander Condos, edi- tor and Victor, publisher threatened specifically to carry on a campaign in this city in their publication, The Bridge port Daily News, for the pur- pose of discrediting the Trans Atlantic Trust Co., was brought out yesterday when the men were arraigped in court,
 Written evidence was intro duced to show that the Condos. Brothers operated from Bridge port. The evidence indicated that the men had been planning a determined campaign.
 The Condos Brothers. publishers of The Bridgeport Daily News, arrest ed last Tuesday on the complaint of Julius Pernitzer, president of the Transatlantic Trust Co.,, 67 William street, were arraigned before Magis- trate Koenig in the ToInbs Court yes terday. According ito the complaint, they had threatened a publicity cam
 
 had said they would publish state ments that the company was the in stitution through which Robert Fay, the alleged German pIotter. had ob- tained the funds for the alleged con- spiracy.
 At, the hearing yesterday MT. Per nitzer testified that the threat had been made in the Hungarian language in the hanaWriting of. Victor Condos. In the paper shown to him Pernitzer said, the statement was made that the money to finance the activities of Fay had been sent from Germany through the Transatlantic Trust Co., that the trust company. was ,used/by the Ger man spy service in offenses against the laws and neutrality of the United States, and that the institution was in financial trouble.
 These and other statements, Per nitzer testified, the Condos brothers threatened to publish in The Bridge port Daily News, an English publica- published in the Hungarian language, both controlled by the Condos broth CTS. Pernitzer testified that the' trust company had not been in any way identified with any German spy sys- tenn and that he had never heard of the Fay plot except through the news papers.
 When the Condos appeared at the trust company office last Monday Per nitzer and Alexander Condos had sew eEal documents to be printed to harm the trust company. Pernitzer- said Alexander Condos asked for $2,0OO to suppress the publication and offered to surrender the manuscripts as evil dence of. good faith He wrote out the check and the detectives, who had been waiting unseen, appeared and put the men under arrest.
 The manuscripts were offered in evidence by Assistant District Attor- ney Van Castelle. The documents, when translated, read in part, as fol- lows:
 I could not wait any longer for you at the office have given all arti- c1es to translator, and shall proceed as follows with my plan:
 First Article-The Transatlantic Trust Company represents here pol icy of inducing immigrants to return home. They offered lately small lots to the )Hungarfans in Amer ica in order to enable them to return home They are selling Hungarian government bonds and war loans stat ing that the difference in price-i. G.. exchange profits-wi1I enrich the re- turning immigrants They prepare large movement for the re- turn of immigrants to Hungay, while there will be no influx of immigrants This policy is harmful to the United States.
 Second Article-The money for the Fay bomb plot was sent from Ger many through the, Transatlantic Go. i The World wrote about this already, 1 two weeks ago. Skotthy travelled in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford, and was interested in the manufac- ture of ammunition. Skotthy is en1- ployed by the bank, and is poor man. He is now newspaper man, I but known as a spy. Who has com missioned him and who paid his ex- penses? What sort of correspond | ence is the bank keeping on? Way do they keep secret files?
 Third Article--what are the conf dential services performed by the bank for the mbassy and the con sulate? The bank is 8 medium for the foreign spy service, and commits l at least offenses against the neutral l ity of the United States and it's laws. | 4n contradiction with the ooth of the | directors, the bank is a governm eI1t institution, with duties and rights which only belong to the consuIates. i The institution is under it's present management in contradiction with Wilson's foreign policy.
 The Second Part of the Action fSu bdiviston A.-To make petition in Albany and New York Bank superin- 1 tendent that the immediate drop in the value of 4.0O0.oOQ kronen ($8o0,- l