New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-13
Member of Frederick
der Crosse Crew
Makes Confession.
BOY-ED NAMED
WITH PAPEN
Rintelen Also Accused by
Two of Four Arrested
Fay Gave Clew.

The New York police surprised In
is Matching last night a far
reaching German plot 70 wipe out
Allied commerce sailing from Amer
ian ports. Almost within the
shadow Of the Woolworth Building
officials of German steamship lines
interned in this city have built up a
bomb-making industry for the sup
plying Of other Teutonic prOpagan-
6ists throughout the country and for
The destruction of vessels Of Eng
land and France sailing from New
York and other harbors Of the
United States.
The departmental heads Of this
factory for Internal machines in
Guided officers of the Hamburg
American and the North German
LLOYD Line. -Four have been arrest
ed. charged with attempted arson
Laborers IT, this factory were men,
hers Of the crews Of Gcsman liners
held here.
Liner Was Bomb Factory.
The factory itself, in which the
bombs were made by the hundred, is
the steamship Kaiser Friedrich der
Grosse-a vessel protected by the
United States and accepting the
hospitality Of the country as safe
guard against the British cruisers
which wait for her off Sandy Hook.
-Four Of the heads Of the conspir-
acy, now under arrest, are:
ERNEST BECKER, thirty-two;
born in Germany; electrician on the
Friedrich der Crosse; confessed
maker Of hundreds Of bomb cases.
Captain CHARLES Won KLEIST.
sixty-seyen; retired sea captain;
Torn in Germany; superintendent Of
TIE New Jersey Agricultural and
Chemical Works; confessed that his
plant manufactured a high explosive
used in loading bombs.
Captain OTTO WOLPERT, forty
four. commander Of the Friedrich
der Crosse; born in Germany; ac-
cgsed Of having received completed
bombs
Captain EMO BODE, forty
four; born in Germany; pier super
intendent for the Atlas Company,
subsidiary Of the Hamburg-American
Line; admits acting for "men
higher up" in the bomb-making
plant.
IAree men higher up were named by
Won Kleis,, who told oil he knew about
TIC conspiracy last night. They are
Franz Won Rintelen, a prisoner Of war
in England. who is under indictment IN
the Federal Court here for alleged
Propaganda work in which Frank
Buchanan, David Lamar and others
we're implicated; Captain Franz Won
Pspen, and Captain Karl Boyd, the
military and naval a,,ache % .he Ger
man embassy. dismissed last year on
Ge request % the government.
According % statement made BY the
prisoners. The bombs had been manu-
fac.gred b. the hundreds in the hold
o. The Kaiser Friedrich der Crosse.
Then they we're taken 20 the New Jer-
isy Agricultural and Chemical Com
pa,y WORKS. q. Il South Hillside Ave
ne, Glen Ridge, -. j., whore they were
-..f1 VIII h.ga explosive.
Plan 10 Sink All Liners.
FROM here the internal machines were
rtir.D4te1 ~ scores ~ German agents
hfp42fDlt me country. thc pohce
believe that they we're % be used 20
t-pp.y t1e most complete and iar-
ifacfIng German plot yet conceived in
ne United States. u was the ambi-
iya ~ fhc bomb makers % destroy
al trade between America and the
"iIff b. sinking every vessel carry
ifI mgnlt.Dns acrOas The Atlaitlc.
They had already made feverai A.
''mp's ~ this, more in the way ~ ef-
permert shan anything else. The nine
bo'abs 'tat we're found in the barge the
hf<rsuald when rhe dOcked ~ Mar
ff.llfs OH June last we're manuiaci
1ffd in The Kaiser Friedrich bonn
fse,ory.
Hsr1 fhc crbargo On fecrccy ~aH
lifted % police headquaTfrfa, follow.
IN ne arrest ~ the fur alleged
h,f'b men. h. became known that their
ffif'i.Dn uas Iu "a measure Que 70
s>f' ~ triangular working arrange
,fn' betucen Captain JDnney, me
Fsneh secret fefyice iu NafseiIe'