Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-01
NEUTRALITY |S ONLY BROKEN SAYS DARING
 GERMAN
Ernest Schiller is Hurried to New York Because of Fear that Friends Would Attempt to Rescue Him.
(By Review Leased Wire.)

LEWIS. Del. March 3l.-Fearing | that attempts would be made to res cue Ernest Schiller. the young Ger | man stowaway who, single handed. captured the British steamer Matoppo and her crew of 56 men on the high seas, detectives tonight tGok Schiller from his cell in the town jail and hur- ! ried him by automobile to Burlington from where he will be taken by train to New York
 The detectives declared they had re- ceived positive information that at tempts would be made to rescue the prisoner and with the consent of the local authorities they decided that he would be safer in New York.
 Schiller, readily consented to go. saying he would do anything to keep out of the hands of the British off cials. During the afternoon Schiller was given hearing before Justice of the Peace Register. and made de- tailed statement as to his motives in stating what he terms a privateering expedition.
 Revenge against England for arrest ing him as spy, as we'll as the spells he expected to secure, he declared, were the impelling motives. He was uncertain, he said, whether the four men he had picked up to accompany him had abandoned the enterprise.
 They were not German" he de clared. ''I was the only German con- cerned and only for my hard luck, would have turned better trick than the Moewe when it captured the Ap- pam. l was terribly handicapped by depending on buns and crooks to as- sist me
 Tn making war on England l am guilty of nothing more than a breach of neutrality laws of this country was peacefully practicing my profes- sion of textile engineer in Hull, Eng land, when the war broke out friend of mine was arrested. Charged with signalling with calcium lights to the raiding Zeppelins. he was shot and l was arrested. I had committed no offense. but l was shut up in dirty jail and greatly humiliated. al- though there was no evidence against me-
 Schiller here halted his recital long enought to request assurances that this government would take charge of the case. and that he would not be surrendered to Great Britain He was told that this was a matter to be de- termined later.
 ''I told the Hull officials that if they count f my German nativity they would Jay for it dearly. They could find no excuse for shooting me, so they punished me by exiling me from the country and so came to America l spent some time in Danbury New Haven and Bridgeport. Conn. and s< nally went to Boston where l secured employment with textile company
 "All the time I was tllirsting for re venge on England and I used to lie awake at nights trying to think of some scheme. Then it occurred to me that it would be much simpler for prize to run the British blockade | went to Hoboken with my plans | fully formulated and there got to- l gether my gang picking out four of the | most likely looking fellows to accom- | pany me on the expedition. l told ! them l was out to capture q British | steamer and make it my yacht and | that we could claim the ship as a ! prize.
 When went aboard the Matoppo had been told 1t was another boat. | the Fl Sparto. think and that it car | ried at least 10000 and cargo of | munitions for the allies. don't know |, whether they are op board the Fl | Sparto. but if they are wish them l good luck and hope they go ahead | with my plan and win out"
 Schiller said he did not regret what | he hsd. done and would do it again if he had the chanes
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