New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-24
Lawyer Says SlaCkerS
Also Employ Under
ground Route
ADRIATIC SAILS
WITH SUSPECT
system Revealed as Court
Here Is Asked TO Free
Him from Brig

A1 attempt 70 get William farrcl.
coal trimmer on the hdriatc. out OF
IRONS snd the ships brig yesterday by
means OF a writ Of hsbeas corpus
brought TO light an underground rail
road" by which Englishmen have been
cadinc military service and escaping
fo The United States. Fsrrci himself
.sid 90 bc q German who. ike many
others. cecsped flOm camps where M
.erocd prisoners arc confined.
With tho attempt tho coal trimmer
umed tho mystery OF tho man m
..e iron mask. For DAYS he wss man
cicd and immured within sound OF
no ,ccminc traffic Of the Chelsea
r.crs. and yesterday his friends tried
p, release him with the aid of the
courts. They failed. and when the
t8r.aiic .siied last night Fsrrci was
M imprisoned ON board.
Who Fsrr,l IS. rby hc is confined,
.rs hi. friend arc and how they
learned o. hi prcdicament arc qucr-
.9as tbat the British Admiralty and
lie radicals Who gather al the Modern
Torrcr school might be able 20 answer
Tarrcls skipper says that he is a coal
beaver uho threatened not 20 return
r. got -horc leave and consequently
csppcd in irons.
say He Fled Camp
rs Wciubergcr, an attorney who
.el 20 rec Farrel. and others who
e...ccl uddcn interest ~ the case
..d Cha. the coal trimmer was held as
G,-maa frcc lance journalist and for
her soldier who bad escaped from d
detention camp near Liverpool
Wc.abergcr popped the Farrel ques-
ton 300 The United States District Court
yesterday morning by applying to Judge
Nayer FOR n writ directing the captain
and oFcers Of the Adristic 10 produce
,orihalth the person Of Farrell also
known "a. kcrhahn.
The vr.f was granted on the pct
ton of Charles rvans. another coal
.rmme- ou the Adriatic and "a British
.ub.cc. uc lives at 20i West -Four
,,en.h street. but nobody there kne"
last night whether he had ventured
aboard tho Adriatic again alter max
inc his deposition.
Saws lie Knew Farrel
E,ars declared that he had known
Farre boo London for years. that far-
rel pa. rot German soldier nor hao
hc been. and that 90 cOnhne hlm m
ions was "a violation OF the Seamen
sc.. The writ directed Captain :. o.
Ransom. ol the Adriatic. 70 appear pc
fore Judge llough, a. the Bar Assoeia
sion. In the afternoon u ne ava "O'
surrender ms prisoner.
The WI, was given TO Herbert Coneh'
o. MIR. Woinberger's Office. VINO "Ss
referred to Robert II. Edwards, ship
purscr. o. soen a. he got aboard tne
sduatc. That official. Cohen said, e.
blamed that the only Farrcl on boaro
20. Peter Farrel and had Peter
brought 40. Peter. Cohen said. as
serted that he wasn't the man wanted
snC chat there was a William farrc.
oa board. Peter stopped right there
and lcft Cohen 10 settle the matter
with thc purser. o..
"The purser told me 10 shut up
.aid Cohen, "and when / demonstrated
he said 10 me; i don't give damn
for the United States or It's writs. lhls
o. p British ship"
Without William Farrel but with the
assurance that Captain Ransom would
cave ms violin and his canaries and
lhe coaling Of his ship long enough 20
sppesr before Judge Hough AZ the bar
A.sociation. Cohen quit the ship. Inc
uIscr accompanied him.
Says He Didn't Know Him
Captain Ransom. with most iuo
hsr'y urbsnity, considering that MS
sap's sailing had been delayed SIN
hours b. coal trimmer and ms
friends. sworo that nc did not kno"
farrel and had no knowledge that ne
rad escaped from an internment camp
Whether Fsrrel had any other name
10 did not know. but he did know that
he had SAID he wouldn't return 20 the
slip n he were allowed TO leave, and
nat once the coal trimmer got his FOOT
On shore. neither the captain nor all
rls officers could get him back again
legally II he didn't want 70 come.
Judge Hough said that he did not
think there was any Federal statute
Thich authorized the use Of writ Of