The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-13
Confession Says Diplomatic
Attaches Helped Finance
Conspiracy.
BOMB FACTORY is "
LOCATED by POLICE
Nature of Chemicals Shows
Device Was the Work
Of Il Scientist.
MONEY IN THE SCHEME,
CAME FROM RINTELEN
One Prisoner From BIG
Teuton Liner, Others
From Jersey Towns.

Details of gigantic conspiracy to SGT
Are to hundreds of steamships carrying
supplies for the Allies on both the pac.nc
and Atlantic oceans were unfolded last
night with the arrest of four men
charged with attempted arson. Tia
specific charge against the men Is that
they manufactured and caused Are
bomb 10 be placed on board the Kuk
Oswald. which sailed from this port on
Nav .. 1915
\ confession by capt. CHARLES Non
| kleist, one OF the four prisoners says
specifically that more than 2o0 ne
bombs were manufactured and that the
money for the manufacture of the bombs
and for the purchase of a remarkable
chemical compound was furnished by
Francis Won Rints!en. a Lieutenant cap.
tain in the German army, who is now 4
| prisoner of war in England. and by
| Capt. Franz Won Iapen and Cant. Kari
Boy-Ed. respectively military and naval
! attaches Of the German Embassy. who
were dismissed from the country last
| December.
The four men who were placed under
arrest last night at Police Headu,r,rterO
by Capt. Thomas J. Tunney Of III. bomb
squad. acting under directions from
Deputy Police Commissioner Guy SOUL.
are said TO have worked directly uudor
orders from the three Germans mon
toned above. They are:
Men Under Arrest.
Capt Won Eleist. 81 years od born
~ ,'ermany. lives at ll21 Garden street,
hoboken' \. j. He is a retired German
army Captain. skilled in chemistry.
Capt Otto Wolper', ~ years old born
N Germany. superintendent OF tho Atlas
Steamsnip Company, a subsidiary OF tn.
iainburg- american Line, living at ~
May oils street. Bloomfield. N. j. Re
Gently before the Federal Grand Jury
Capt. Wolpert refused TO answer u,Ies-
ti"ns as to whether lie knew Won RIM
telen by that name or by tho name Of
! Fred Hansen.
capt Emo Rode. - Years old. su1.--
'in'endent OF the Hamburg American
docks in lioboken. living at is south
Hillside avenue Glen Ridge.
Ernest Becker. 80 years old. born in
Germany. an electrician. living on Fried.
rich der Crosse, a North German Lloyd
liner at Hoboken.
The extreme penalty for the crime
charged. IL was said last night by tn.
police. is forty five years in prison.
Both Won kleist and Becker have
made statements to the police in which
they have admitted that they handled
the fire bombs. Won Klelsts story &.
pecially brings into the conspiracy the
names OF German army and navy OFF,
GERS. and taken III connection with tho
vast amount OF evidence that Capt. TIN
rey and his men have been gathering
FOR practically a year. links up C1pt.
Robert Fay in the conspiracy TO blow
up ammunition thlps.
The Evidence Complete.
Although the police we've careful las,
night to confne what Information they
gave out to the att, npt to destroy the
KIRK Oswald, II was clear from they
guarded remarks and from what little
was made public OF the statements OF
Won kleist and Becker that they ha"s
uncovered the methods by which bombs
! we're placed on scores of ships sailing
! from Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
; San Francisco and Seattle.
The police also have been told that while
Won Rintelen was the first one 10 put un
money in connection with the work--lus
! mission TO this country Involved every
means ne ecessary to prevent shipments of
: arms and supplies to the Allies--Cart.
: Won Papen. after Won Riutelen's de
parture, and Capt. Boy-Ed put IN money.
and after their dismissal from the coun-
} try the work dcyolved upon still uiher
men.
, The evidence asainst tho four lu.u
, | under arrest is said To- he practically
complete. Before any OF the four WIS
taken into custody the police disrove red
, in the house Of one of tho men a bomb
| which WAS an exact duplicate Of the
one found on the kirk Oswald when she
arrived at Marselles on June lsst
{ The police had located the factory In
which more than 200 of these bombs
were manufactured, have ascertained the
nature of the chemicals used in the
bombs, and found parts Of bombs IN the