New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-03
BOMB SUSPECTS
STOCKINGS HID
Sl,720 In BILLS
Bartender, Arrested as
Tire Thief, Now Held
in Liner Plot.
ADMITS HE KNOWS
FAY AND SHOLZ
George Van Horn Says He Fled
TO Jersey Shore When Sus-
picion Fell on Him.

piciOn Fell on him.
George Van Horn, q bartender. ar
rested on the charge Of stealing auto
mobile tires, was yesterday found TO
have 81, 720 IN bills Of large denomina-
ton wrapped around his legs under his
s,ocsings. This discovery, made by the
police Of West New York. and two ad-
missions by the prisoner himself. re
suited in mis- being held under sus-
p:cion a. number seven n the Ter
mar conspiracy to destroy ships carry
irg ammunition to the Allies.
he confessed, according to the po-
lice. that he knew Lieutenant Robert
Fav. who is held Wit, Walter E. ShoiI'
Max Breitung and three other deiehu-
ants in the alleged Weehswsen con
spiracy. Van Horn also admitted ma
he mad lived at 6l6 West Forty-eighth
Street under the name OF 1uSoer'uS
Verhsvk Nd 10 last August, when ne
ssd 20 the Jersey shore, knowing that
- was under suspicion Of being impli-
cs,ed in sugar bomb plots on ships OF
French lines l..
To the harbor police Van Horn IS
Known as a river pirate. He has been
arrested twice before for grand larceny
and has been fined for running a motor
boat without lights.
Admitted Employ ent on Barge
He admitted TO the West New YORK
nolice that he was employed on sugar
bsrg, last summer, when ohiciais OF
French steamship lines were worried
over the finding OF incendiary bombs
concealed in sacks of sugar aboard
ocean steamers. Van Horn has denied
absolutely that he knows anything
about the alleged conspiracy TO destroy
ships with explosive bombs.
He was identified Yesterday afternoon
BY sea captain whose Identity the
police refuse TO disclose. This sea cap
lain, il is understood, is ready 10 testlIy
that he paid S265 for lG5 sacks OF SUI
car which. il is believed, Van Horn
had stolen from the barge where he
worked
The police have a suspicion that
Van Horn knows something about the
placing Of q fire bomb on board the
lord Erne. which sailed from this port,
arriving in Havre May 10. The bomb,
placed in a sugar bag in the hold, eX-
ploded when the ship was at sea.
After his first conversaton, IN
which he referred TO the fact that ne
knew Fay, the prisoner proved uhS9m-
municative both TO the West New
York and the local police. liz lntl"
mated that he was afraid that FRANK
O'Brien. his former pal on the sugar
barge. would shoot him If he told TOO
much TO the authorities.
Auto Arrest Gave Clew.
The story Of how the West New York
police happened 10 get this latest
figure in the bomb conspiracy in their
clutches GOES back 10 last week. when
Motorcycle Patrolman Patrick Hanley
arrested Louis Gruenwald. bartender,
Of iii 9th Street, for driving an auto
mobile under a fictitious license. Ger
tain remarks dropped at Gruenwald's
Gearing gave Hanley the cue 10 do some
rlainclothes work. As a result OF the
evidence gathered aptain Gleitsmann
and Detective Joseph Kenny raided
Ferdinand Wohlfahrt's saloon, at 459
Hudson Avenue. Monday night.
Van Horn was one OF four men ar
rested on the suspicion that they were
IMPLICATED in the wholesale theft OF
automobile tires. lie gave his age as
,hirty-six and said that he was bar
tender. His companions gave their
names as Albert Habermann, forty-hve'
a laborer. o. Kissen Street, North
n,
n laborer. Of AL Hudson Avenue, West
New YORK Wohlfahrt, the proprietor,
denied m knowledge OF eight automo-
bile shoes and six tires found in his
cellar lie was admitted 70 81 600 bail,
charged with being the receiver OF
stolen goods.
To investigate further the alleged
thief; OF twenty-five automobile tires,
Recorder Eggers increased Gruenwald's
bail from 81 900 TO $1,000, and held Van
Horn under $4,000 bail. The other de-
PENDANTS were paroled
Vnon finding Sl,720 in bills con-
cealed under Van Horns stockings.
CAPTAIN Gleitsman concluded that he
had more than an ordinary bartender
in this prisoner So he called up the
New York police. informing them that
he had man who might be involved
in the Weehawken bomb plot.
Further Evidence Sought.
Acting Captain Tunney and Barnett
will seek further evidence TO connect
Van Horn with Fay and Sholz. They
have information that the three were
seen dining together IN Neeha"Keh
restaurant several weeks ago.
Steamers Of the French. Fabre and
Atlantic Transport lines were involved
IN bomb plots this year A bomb was
found in the hold OF the Banksdale
which left here May for Havre When
the Kirkoswald, from this port, arrived
IN Marseiiles. June 10. nine bombs %
an incendiary character were found IN
sacks Of grain and sugar in her hold
Two OF the bombs fell from sack and
bounced around the deck wnen the
steamer wss unloading
/, WAS not many weeks after these
hop,b niots were discovered that Van
Horn moved 70 2A Twenty-Fourth
Street. Gutenberg. y. j., because h,
had heard that tho authorities had hin
under suspicion.
Detectives from West New York are
sesrching for Frank O'Brien. the mar
who worked with the prisoner on 1
sugar barge.