Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-13
PERPETRATORS IF SHIP FIRES ARRESTED IN
 NEW YORK
Four Men, Connected With Various German Concerns, Arrested. Charged With Bomb Plot.

l NEW YORK, April 12.-Four men. charged with complicity in manufac turing fire bombs" which were placed ! aboard ships carrying munitions and supplies to the Entente allies. were ar rested here today. Three of the sus- poets are employees of German steam ship lines. They are accused of hay I ing been involved. with others not yet in custody, of fomelting plot. wide spread in it's notifications. for the de struction of merchantmen.
 The men under arrest are Ernest Becker. 32, born in Germany. electri- clan on the steamer Kaiser Freiderich der Crosse said by ;he police to have confessed to manufacturing hundreds of bomb caps; Captain Charles von Kleisl. 67. born in Germany. superin- tendent of the New Jersey Agricultur- al Chemical Company of Hoboken. N. l.. who has confessed, it is asserted, that fire bombs" were loaded in his company's place of business; Captain Otto Wolpert. A, superintendent of the Atlas Line piers of the Hamburg-Am- ericar lines. who is accused of having received the bombs.
 Captain Ennebode. superintendent of the Hamburg-American Line piers III Hcboken. who. the police say. has ad- mitted acting as the agent of Captain Franz von Papen. former military at- tache at the German embassy. in wis it's to the plant of the New Jersey Az ricultural and Chemical Company. and 1iet tt-if fNt1- tion of the bombs.
 Von Kleist. who claims to be a br0- ther-in-law of General Briesen of the German army who was killed in battle in December. 1914. was the first to be placed under arrest He is said to have been instrumental in bringing to police headquarters the men accused of being co-inspirators with him.
 We have invaded the haunts Of the men who are responsible for the fires and explosions on steamships. especial ly sugar-carrying ships, both at piers and at sea-" declared Captain Tunney of the bomb squad in telling of tho seizure at the chemical company plant of 200 bombs of the type said to have been used in the attempted destruc- ton of vessels.
 The arrests are the result of an in- vestigation which has been conducted by federal and city authorities since last June. when the French govern ment complained to the State Depart ment al Washington that unexplodeo bombs had been found in sugar bags aboard the steamship Kirk Oswald. One of these bombs was sent to Wash ington from Paris and Becker. accord ing to the police. admitted tonight that it was one of those made by him.
 Becker. the police say. has confessed that his bomb factory was located on the St Thomas aboard the Kaiser Fredereich der Crosse. The bombs made by him he is reported to have asserted. were delivered to von Kleist al the chemical plant and to be dis tributed to men who placed them a. board ships. IL is believed the bombs were shipped to various parts of the United States. frequently in suitcases. as ordinary baggage.
 Captain Tunney declared funds for the manufacture of the bombs were supplied by a wealthy man whose iden- tity he refused to divulge He said he was told details of the plot last Octo- Der by Lieut." Robert Fay. already under indictment in connection with alleged plots against steamships. The failure of many of the bombs to eX- plode greatly chagrined the persons responsible for their manufacture and distribution. Tunney said Fay told him. This resulted in dissention which aid ed the police in obtaining information, tho officer asserted.
 The bombs were composed of two shells, the outer of aluminium and the inner Of zinc The inner shell was filled with a strong acid. the police
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