Arizona republican., 1915-11-16
FAY TELLS THE STORY 0F HIS
 LIFE ID KNOX
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

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 NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Robert Fay,
 self styled lieutenant in the German army and by his own confession. head | of a gang of bomb makers that sought | to disable or destroy munition laden 1 ships sailing from New York to the entente allies. told the story of his life 1 today to Assistant United States Dis 1 trict Attorney KncX. Fay talked free l ly. fully and Of his own VolitiOn for five hours without interruption. What ! he said was not made public but at the conclusion of the session, MT. Knox announced that all Fay wanted
 to do now was to plead guilty to the
 governments charges against him and
 go to jail.
 H. J. Mcdonald, a lawyer appointed
 by the court to represent Fay sought
 to see his client in MT. KnoXs office,
 but failing. served on MT. Knox notice
 of his intent to demur to the indict-
 ment. Fay read the demurrer while the lawyer waited outside and accord ing to MT. Knox, said he did not wish to demur to the indictment or do any
 thing else but plead guilty and start at once to serve his sentence.
 Pays long talk with Mir Knox was made upon his own solicitation and without promise of immunity or len iency The statement, which the pri- soner dictated. carried him back to Germany, almost to the date of his birth. covered the high lights of his service in the German army, told in detail Of his alleged mission to Ameri- ca and recited his movements and ac- tivities here.
 Whether it was true in its essentials District Attorney Marshall said after ward, had yet to be determined, but in some respects it was verified by inTor- nation which the government had col lected from other sources.
 There is no doubt" MT. Marshall 1 said. that his name is really Fay and that he served in the German army. 1 As to the rest. we do not know. His ! statement differs somewhat from his 1 previous story but admits his guilt of the charges against him.
 What Fay told Mir. Knox today leads i back to a source to which already has l been traced another case under inves l tigation by the government, according i to Roger B. Wood, an assistant in MT. l MarshalTs office. MT. Wood has pre- | pared most of the cases in the passport ! frauds, and also prepared the govern l ment's case against Karl Buenz and ! other officials of the Hamburg Ameri- l can line, indicted on a charge of con spracy and to be placed on trial this | week
 Five cases of this sort lead back to 1 four sources" MT. Wood said. They <. are the Fay cases, the Buenz cases and ! the three passport cases. In none of | the cases did the actual defendants know what the defendants in the other cases were doing. The four sources, however. directing these five cases are very close together-very. It is my belief that these four men all reported to and took their orders from fifth man who was the director of all the trouble of this sort in the United States
 If you could prove this,' Mir. Wood was asked. would you CT could you prosecute this fifth man."
 "All I can say to that" he replied
 lis that under the law we cannot pro- secute any diplomatic representatives If a foreign country
 When Fay ended his long statement late today, he was taken back to the TOmbs to remain there till tomorrow when he will be questioned by Mir. Knox. The statement of today was made without questioning or prompt ing. It contained many leads, it is said. about which the governments awyers want more information.
 Both Mir. Marshall and MT. Knox declined to say whether anyone was implicated in Fay's new statement Fay has been somewhat of puzzle to -hem both and it was intimated that his statement would not be accepted without full verification As it stands now, however. it is unlikely that there will be other arrests in the alleged blot. at least until Pays latest confess sion is corroborated, if then.