New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02
roo Much Rum Spoiled
Buccaneering Expedition,
Schiller Tells Police.
GIORIES IN FAME
SEA HOLD-UP WON
1euton Only Regrets Not Killing
Captain-Tales Puzzle the
Authorities Here.

Looking something like a German
,.r.e,8er and something like carl
- from Gilbert's Dab Ballads. y
C,.re,ce Reginald Hudson, better
s,ov, as Ernest Schiller, who capt
ar.d the British steamer Matoppo
's.cle.banded Thursday morning told
re police here yesterday that this was
,o.bing compared TO what he intended
so;,g on March 3 II his three con
s.1sra.es hadn't become drunk.
VIZ the hero of the greatest dime
I'd comedy Of the sea wanted to DO
ave- bis story is 10 be believed-was 70
-. ,be Cunard liner Pannonla' com
t.,'s .ho rev and passengers to take 10
l'' ifebosts and then sink her with
.De n,;,e ON this charge the police
thought him from Lewes, Del
'l.,or5av. VIII arraiCn Charles Reg
!ei Vgtsor this morning IN JEFFERSON
"si Ne.SSr mis- story Of an attempt to
...t ,be Cunarder is yarn woven oy
p-isor's fertile Imagination, captain
T~~rey. of the bomb squad is uhaoie
" S sVE have not been able to sub.
,..ntiatc ans Of his statements yet'
.e4 CAPTAIN Tunney. "and whether re
i boavine us or IS serious we cannot
tell now 49,, :, pe.ro-
Grad and that his father was an Lhs
fsbman and his mother German,
,or,ed Emma Koch. tie Is as vain @hu
ogrru.ous Us be Is slim. AItnoueh ~
Feet ten inches, he weighs le.s man
IN nornds lie says he Is twenty
,sree. but looks thirty or more. ne
Lies that hc has done something
rrprecedcn,cd and glorles IN u;
al Car.ain Tunuey that while hVlhg
cr.e, room,ng house in Hoboken
3. rIo--ed with three others 70 capture
.s. 'psrronia. His three cOnfederates,
BE- said he met in riverfront saloons.
Vs-, NJ their meetings were held IN
,s.s cts near the Cunard docks.
Plot to Take Pannonia.
,sp-ain Tunney, who would not al
i.. b. ~.v,spapcr men TO talk 70 the
s,rlo. German about the alleged plot
- bior un the Pannonia. told the
s.orv as Hudson had related IT TO hlIn'
eHudson." said Tunney, said ne ana
three others were IN the plot. Hudson
va the brains OF the whole ining. lie
uas not connected with the German
government or any one else. lie want
81 10 90 il for patriotism and the
none there was in it. This was their
plan. as Hudson told II; 1000.
aHudson said that he borrowed 500
fror friend. With this he bought
10, Of dynamite and hired motorDoat-
On. of d.. friends kept the dynamite.
Tbs matorboat was on the Jersey shore::
With o they were 20 sail in the dead
o. night 90 the Pannonia and then
climb aboard and stow themselves away
until the liner passed Sandy Hook ana
the three-mI .e limit. Then the ioui
we're 90 CAPTURE the whole crew. ana
after putting the crew and the passen-
gers ir lifebOats rife the strong box
the Cunard liners always carry many
thousands and then escape IN snip
launch. They had planned so HUDSON
ssvs-that Just before they left the
ship they would blow her up with dyna-
mite or else sink her by opening the
sea cocks Then they were 20 come
back 20 this shore and with the money
.hev robbed from the Cunarder's strong
box continue their pro-German prop
Uganda" 49,,
"Why didn't they carry out the plan :?
Captain Tunney was asked.
well. two Of Hudson's friends GOV
drunk and the third showed streak
o. yellow" replied the captain.
Hudson was allowed 70 talk 10 the
reVspapermen about his Matoppo eX-
ploit lie fairly gloated as he went
over his experiences on the BRUSH
steamer. he spoke English with
slight German accent.
Regrets Sparing Captain
you know" said Hudson, after he
rad told the now familiar story, OF
capturing the Matoppo single handed
my only regret is that ! let the Ma
'oppo's captain live. ! was too tender
hearted with him. He asked me not
20 waste any life He told me he had
z wife and two children. And he even
ssd 20 me. GO up on the bridge ana
ask the mate And ] went and the
nate told roe the captain had a family
And ! spared Ms life, and then, after
giving ne his word Of honor as an
Ergishmar III know better II meet
him again he hoisted d pennant that
here was piracy aboard as ! pat Of IN
small boat The Delaware coast
yards came I'd in launch and ar
rested me. That is what call raw
ease o. ire couble-cross."
Then Hudson smoked HE twentieth
o. th.rtieth cigarette, and gave another
tslrl % his mustache. and for the sec
ond time told how he entered the cap
'sin's cabin and held him up. To illus
irsie better how dramatic - was, he
acted 10 for the reporters.
Wy FIST intention was 20 20 on the
n Sparto with three companions not
ne same ones 7 used in the attempt 20
bow Up the Cunarder and take her
cown % Mexico and sell her. But they
evidently got on the other ship We
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