Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-13
TRACED TO THIS CITY,
SPY CAUGHT AT SEA



books of the Hotel Hanover "a man had
taken q room on November and had
had his trunks sent to New York on that
day. He casually remarked to the bag
gage man that he was going 10 South
America.
Then he had given up his room at the
hotel and gone to 1906 Arch street a
rooming house. but the landady could
not remember what name he had given
her. The name on the hotel books was
that of GO. Gastne," In a forcign-looiing
hand, with no address given.
Was &C. GaStne' the name given by
the mysterious traveller ut the Cook Of
flee? Well, they said the &C. was right
as his first initial and the "Gastinc"
sounded very much like the name he gave
them. but there was n slight difference;
perhaps he had changed II on the way
from the Hanover to the Office in South
Broad street.
At any rate. it was precisely this man,
whatever his name is, whom the de-
tectives traced from the Bethlehem plant
after the fire as one implicated in the
conspiracy to burn the plant down. They
followed the trail to the Cook agency
here but they ran down the facts stated
above after the steamship Nauban had
left New York city, bound for Monte
video and other ports on the South Amer
lean coast.
Immediately gave their information about
the blond short man, whom they de-
scribed as "u German officer of high
rank masqueradng as q former Swiss
soldier with faxed passports, to the state
Department at WASHINGTON. and the state
Department said stop the steamship
Nauban' bu the Nauhan had sailed.
She was on her way south to Monte
vidco, Uruguay. and other South Ameri-
can ports. She was due TO arrive there
early in December and jnCc the shin
'ouched the Montevidco pier it was good
bye German officer of high rank. He
could hide easily enough in South Ameri-
ca, which is full of jungle, and perhaps
come up on the other side of the conti-
nent to san Francisco, 10 start in again
at the work of blowing up munitions fac
tories.
There was a scant two weeks to get
him before the Nauban rubbed along the
pier at MontevideO. The State Depart
ment was notified, and II promptly noti-
he'd the British Embassy, for British
ships are as good as American policemen
and willing, when 1t comes to catching
the men who blow up munitions facto-
ries. British cruiser lying off New
York was wirelessed to chase the Vaubau,
and she did.
She caught the steamship. in the nick
of time. off the South American coast.
Captain Byrne of the British ship Vau-
ban, was only too pleased to stop his
engines and take on board "A searching
party, which put the suspected passen-
ger under arrest A few DAYS later. ON
December g. the Vauban docked at Mon
tevidco without the officer.
He was taken on the British cruiser to
Port of-Spain, capital of Trinidad. Brit
ish possession i'm the West Indies He
was taken to British fortress on that
island II palms, bread-fruit, mangoes,
Rnt-eaters and monkeys, in a balmy
climate very unlike that OF snowy and
bIustery Philadelphia. The climate OF
Trinidad is not only balmy, but malarial,
and fOrtresses are placed for purposes
strategic rather than sanitary
The story Of the spy's Imprisonment Is
according 10 Captain Bullen, of the Lam
port K Holt liner Tennyson which ar
rived at New York yesterday from South
America. lie said it was no secret down
in the Caribbean, where news travels
fast.