New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-26
Detectives Believe
Prominent Men Head
Ship Conspiracy.
MAX BRElTUNG
NAMED BY FLYNN
Boy-Ed and Won Papen
We're in Secret, Lieut..
Fay Asserts.

ward Kienzle, Of al Park Place, was
teld in the United States Court in
$4,000 on a charge of conspiracy. Al
.bt same time a hunt was begun fol
man known 20 the Secret Service
a. Max Breitung.
Breitung is not under arrest
Who he is the authorities refuse tC
disclose. Assistant United States
District Attorney Knox said the
name should not have been giver
out: that the time for taking action
in his case had not arrived.
Though Breitung's identity is not
given with any degree Of exactitude
By the government officers, he is not
rearly as mysterious as the man
whose name is given as Robert Fay,
and who has readily, not to say
eagerly. confessed to being in the en-
roy of the German Secret Service.
There is nothing whatever to show
that his claim 20 being an officer in
the German army has any basis in
fact. and his willingness to confess
is contrary TO the customary practice
OF men Of the profession he claims
membership in.
Lieutenant Robert Fay, a pris-
oner in the Weehawken police sta
ton. said last night be believed Max
Breitung to be relative Of Edward
y. Breitung. prominent mining and
shipping man, whose Office is at II
Pine Street and who lives at the st.
Regis. In the directory there ap-
pears the name Of a Max Breitung,
whose office is at II Pine Street.
Edward \. Breitune IS well known
70, his German sympathies. He was
the owner Of the Dacia. which the
French seized because Of its alleged
eontrsband cargo.
Fay Tells Of Meeting Breitung.
Fay said he was introduced 10 Max
Breitung in q downtown New York res
isurant by a man whose name the pris-
oner refused TO give.
"Al that Breitung did Fay said
was 10 put me into touch with persons
from whom ! got the basic ingredients
for explosives. but not the explosives
themselves. ! didn't tell Breitung OF
ny plans, but he may have guessed
them"
Following Kienzle's arrest, a man,
whose story may result in other ar
rests, had a long talk with Guy Sculi
Fifth Deputy Police Commissioner
Who is in charge Of the case. Commits
sioner Scull said that he would not
reveal what he had learned
Kienzle denies guilt. The others
Lieutenant Robert Fay, Walter L. Sholz
and Paul Daesche. all Of whom are
locked up in the Weehawken police sta
uon, declare that they were the only
persons involved in the conspiracy. Fay
goes further, saying that Captain Boy
"a and Captain Won Papen, of the Ger
nan Embassy, enjoined him not to
tasien his bombs TO any vessel IN
American waters.
William J. Flynn. chief Of the United
States Secret Service, made the com.
plsint against Kienzle. The affidavit
tontSined little detail, Chief Flynn ex'
planning that 20 give out all the mat
Ter In his possession now would De
against public policy.
Seeking Clew TO Men Higher Up.
In the search for more papers ano
bomb parts, believed 10 have been Sc
tItted by the prisoners. the police were
.nsueeessful yesterday. Among tn'
nings already found there is notnlng t'
iernsh a clew 10 the supposed man oi
ntn higher up"
ray and Scholz, the more importan'
The men under arrest, denled ina
hey had attached loaded bombs 70 anS
nps, even in making tests. Schoi'
said he had fastened a bomb to shii
US. 10 see how quickly II eonid p'
~hs, but that bomb, he said' wa
srp,y.
The arrest Of Kienzle was the las
ssaee yesterday, and was eneeteo o.
sshee Captain Tunney and DETECTIVES
Agrphy and Coy. He was taken before
Voited States Commissioner Houghton
the Federal Building, and eharge'
va violating Section POS Of the Unite'
Yates Criminal Code, which preserloe'
nat whoever on the high seas or VITA
= the maritime jurisdiction OF tn
ehi,ed States shall by surprise or b!
Pm force maliciously attack or Sc
.sSa any vessel belonging 70 ano'ner
IA an intent unlawfully TO despoi
.v vewner thereof Of any moneys, gooo,
nerch&ndise laden on board Thereon
val be fined not more than so'OV'
~ =, De sentenced TO imprisonment y
~ nore than ten years"
~ charged th~t ION or about Au
vs. 10" and later Kienzle and Brett
eonspired 70 violate this ae'
S,s.'ang. the complaint AYERS, pai'
'H 10 Paul Serbs, German Office
Wv IN the United States, snd who !
so'ernment witness. Fay, II is al
& sse, paid S23 to Serbs, the money q
oeyoted 10 the purchase + po'as
n.n snlorate. kienzle is member o
r. hlenzle Clock Company. Fri
,s,as,e' OF that company. has twice ap
IN the courts in connection witl
A., ~tged differentiation Of importa
'"' ei clocks from Germany.
Held In $4,000 Bail.
vt kienzle wes held in S25, 900 bal
M. TRIAL on November 4.
a, three men In the Weehawkei
VII come W for examination oil
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