The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-08
SUSPECTED BOMB
 PLOTS HERE ARE CAUSE OF P ROBE.
Secret Service Agents Ac- tive in Investigating
 Occurrences Here.
BRIDGEPORT MEMS
 TESTIMONY TAKEN
Local Mechanical Engineers Given Hearing Before
 New York Jury.

That the investigators of the bomI plot that has been attributed to Lieu tenant Fay of the German army and his alleged fellow conspirator, Scholz will attempt to prove that these men and their allies have made plots against munitions plants in Bridge port, is believed as a result of the
 appearance last Thursday of Felix Lauter of 115O Capitol avenue, and Richard Zinkernagel of 167 West Lib-
 erty street, this city, before a grand jury in New York.
 Lauter and Zinkernage1 were called as -> with nesses before Cornmissi oner Idoughton and at the close of the hearings it was given out that a clos CT investigation will be made in Bridgeport
 . Three secret service men have been in this city for a month. Only the head of the police department here has heen acquainted with their moves.
 Zinkernagel and Lauter told of their meeting with Paul Daeche, who is a representative of a German firm, and who is held. in connection with the plot. They also told of their, meet ing with SchoIz and at the, close of the hearing the opinion was expressed that the plot may have had a deep signtf1- canoe as related to occurrences in Bridgeport
 The two Bridgeporters who appear ed in New York are both mechanical Lauter has many devices to his credit as inventions. They have offices near each other in the Warner building here.
 Al the United States attorneys of fee in New York it was intinated that more confessions are expected from those involved in the bomb plot H,-4- II7-- a them have a change of thought de- clared MT. Marshal of the government counsel
 The hearing was continued and will be resumed Thursday in all probabi1- ity. M
 Eighteen more men under arrest, presen 4ation Of evidence to the grand jury in an effort to obtain indictments, a $25, ,O0O incendiary fire in the super cargo of the British steamship Flu terpe, disclosure of the crippling of war material in transit for the Allies are the latest developments in the governments case against the plotters.
 All of fhesm men now under arrest (there are 25 of them) are said by secret service men to be implicated in an extensive plot Which involved ac- tivity aboard vessels, at intuition factories and in railroad freight yards.
 Eight distinct fires were discovered last night in the hold of the Euterpe. lying in Erie Basin Her cargo was consigned to the Allies.
 Bombs, false boards and wigs found in possession of Fay and Scho1z were shown to the grand jury. Carl Wettig, chemist; Paul SeIb, broker, and James Service, secret service man, testified.
 Thirty military trucks for the AL lies have been disabled in Weehaw- ken, the seat of Pays conspiracy, and shipped abroad in useless condition in the< <1ast two months. From each of these machines al magneto. valued at $1S5, was removed in West New York freight yards. At least $80,000 worth of automobile tires for cars of com rnanding officers, signal service, am bulance corps and other branches of the Allied armies have been stolen or diverted to other channels.