New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-04
SAYS AFFIDAVIT
MAKERS WILL BE
HERE AS NEEDED
German Affrms Truth or
Testimony Lusitania
Was Armed.
EVIDENCE OBTAINED
BY EMBASSY ATTACHE
Head of Movement Has Been
Active in Pro.kaiser Prop
uganda Scandals.

when our witnesses are wanted by
the authorities We will be able 10 pro-
duce them"
This was a statement made by an
official Of the German government who
- temporarily assigned TO duty IN TINS
city IN reply TO a question about the
identity and whereabouts of the Ger
man witnesses who made sworn aiii-
davlts about their knowledge that the
huSltania was armed with four con-
cealed guns on her last voyage. These
affidav'ts are now in the possession Of
the State Department, and those who
swOre to them are said TO be under
investigation by agents of the Depart
ment f Justice
Gustave Stable, German reservist,
who is the principal witness of the
German Embassy IN its contention that
the Lusitania was an armed merchant
man when she was sunk, has mysterj-
ously disappeared from the address he
gave before the notary who attested
his affidavit
At 20 Leroy Street. in the heart Of
the Greenwich Village section. it was
said last night that Stables where
abouts we're unknown Mrs. George
Morris. who, with her mother and a
married sister, runs the boarding house
at that address. admitted last night
that Stable had been living there for
the last seven weeks. sharing n back
parlor with Walter Schubert, another
German. She refused to say whether
Stable had moved and if she knew his
address.
From other sources it was learned.
however, that Stable was a clerk at
tached to the German KOmmandan-
tur in Tien-Tsin. the capital of the
German protectorate in Kio-Chau.
Shortly after the war broke out he
was given transportation 10 the United
States. He arrived in New York last
October, and was assigned TO a clerk
ship in the Office of one of the at
taches of the German Embassy in this
city, which is located in the same
building with the German Consulate.
Until seven weeks ago he and other
official refugees from seized German
colonies were quartered aboard the
North German Lloyd liner George
Washington, which has been tied up in
Hoboken since the beginning of the
war.
The mysterious Leitch whom Stable
accompanied aboard the Lusitanla
shortly before her last departure from
this port. was identified yesterday as
p former second class stewardess IN
the employ OF the Cunard Line. Inc
confirmation was made at the local
Offices of the steamship company.
Neither the German Consulate nor
the various officials Of the German gov
eminent in this country, who, since the
beoinning of the war, have maintained
offices in this city instead OF IN the
national capital, would discuss any
nhase Of the affidavit matter. Despite
This secrecy, il was ascertalned that
tho evidence. which is said 20 have been
placed in the hands of Secretary Bryan
and President Wilson, with view TO
convincing them that the Lusltania was
arned when she started on her last
trim. was carefully gathered under the
supervision of the naval attache OF tie
German Embassy. who as been com
promised in connection with pro-Ger-
man propaganda scandals more than
once since the beginning OF the war.
Anton Grieve and Josephine Weir,
who both made affidavits in corrobora-
ton of Stables story. could not De
Located last night. Both were said 10
have lived at the Leroy street ADDRESS;
but Mrs. Morris insisted that they had
left and that she did not know their
whereabouts.
At the local Offices Of the North Ger
man LLOYD it was denied yesterday
that Stable had ever been in the en-
plov Of the company as some reports
indicated. Captain Max Moeller. pier
superintendent Of the North German