The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
Capt. von der Goltz Comes From London To Make
 Confession.
CANADIAN BRIDGES
 WERE TO BE RAZED
Revolution in Dominion Also
 Projected, But Plan Was Failure.

and the men who were engaged to Dynamite Canadian railroad bridges, and who afrerWard escaped to Eur ope under a passport made out in 'he name of E;ridgndan ". Taylor. arr;E- ed here yesterday from Liverpool on the American liner Finland in charge of Detective Sergeant Brust of Scot land Yard.
 After giving his testimony to the Department of Justice, which will probably require about three months, von der Goltz will be taken back to England and detained in prison until the war is over.
 At first it was intended that he should be landed here as a prisoner under an extradition warrant charg- ing him with obtaining a passport Vn- der a false pretense, but this plan was abandoned because his evidence is wanted in Washington.
 Before the prisoner was sent out of England an agreement was made be- tween the State Departme ent at Wash
 ington and the Foreign Office in Lon
 don that von der Goltz should not be
 t'kidnapped'' during his stay in this country, and that he should be treat ed with courtesy and returned safely to England!
 He expressed the hope that some
 of his powerful friends in this coun- try would contrive to spirit him away so that he would not have to return to the grim English prisons at Erik ton and Reading, where he has spent many weary months.
 SmartIy Dressed, Wears NEonocIe.
 The German government agent or spy, srnartly dressed and wearing a monocles was taken from the Finland when she arrived at her pier, at the foot of West Twenty-seconds street, at
 O JoJ0 I7oLx1 J1rx cersA from the Department of Justice, and his guardian, Brust, but he was not handcuffed- He was taken first to the British Consulate at 8 White hall street, where after a brief com su1tation with Consul General Give Bay1ey and others he was conducted to the Department of Justice bureau in the Park Row building.
 Won der Go1tz, the consulate at taches here say, has admitted to the British authorities in London the facts related in the papers and diary found on Captain von Papen when he arrived in Falmouth in January on the Rot ter9am, but no more. He did this after Q statement had been shown to him, made by the German military attache, which is said to have involv- ed him in the dynamite plot
 Captain Yon der Goltz, whose age is given as 32, looks younger and is younger by some years. He is not re- lated to Field Marshal von der Goltz, the military commander of Constanti- nop1e, and that may not be his right name, but it is the name by which he has been known during his official career in Germany, Mexico, and the United States. He was known as Bridgeman w. Taylor in London when he arrived there in November, 1914.
 When the Finland left Liverpool on i o mor current among the first cabin passeng gers that a German spy was on board on his way to give evidence in Washington. After two days discus sion the passengers fixed upon a stolid cloth manufacturer from Paisley as the spy, and a line merchant from Belfast as the officer who was i'm charge of the prisoner. i, No one suspected that the tall, fair young man with a monocle who wore a brown coduroy Norfolk jacket with a red and white check lining and slouch hat, was the German spy, or that the tall man in check suit who played deck quoits in the second cabin was Detective Sergeant Brust of Scot land Yard, who lived in the same cabin with his prisoner.
 To a correspondent who was on board the Finland von der Goltzl read fly admitted that he was the man who was arrested in London as Bridgeman n w. Taylor. He said his appearance as a witness was his only alternative to save his life. If he had refused he expected to be taken to the Tower | of London and shot. The German 1 agent refused to give an interview during the voyage about his 1 connection with the plots, but the cor 1 respondent learned many details about l von den Goltz's career as a soldier of an nf German government
 In June, 1913, he was serving as a | captain in Carranza's army in Chihua- hua City and at the instigaticn of GerInan Consul Kuch he was arrested 1 and sentenced to be shot by order of sent word to General Chao, who com the Villa forces outside the 1 eity and Chao wrote a letter to Gen. era1 Mercado promising to capture the eity and hang the Generald in the mar ket place if von der Goltz were harm 7d. Three times von der Goltz was ,aken out and placed against a wall | hours delay each tirnef he was es- eorted back to his prison. On Sept. ?, 1913, Consul ,Kpch received orders Q obtain the spy's release and he vas ordered to go to los Angeles, where an attempt was made upon his life in November at night outside one of the banks, the windows of | which were smashed by bullets. 7 Won der GoItz escaped unhurt, and IS he could not have his assailant ar 'ested because of his own position, the police locked him up on the charge of iring a revolver in the streets. Won Ter Goltz believed that both his arrest n Chihuahua with the sentence of 1eath, and the attempt to shoot him n Los Angeles were at the instiga,- ion of the German government
 At that time German fina,nciers in | Mexico were spending large sums of | money for the cause of Huerta, then l involved in disputes with the United l 5tateS