Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-01
Detectives Hastily Take Ger
man, Who Held Up British
Steamer From LeweS to
New York City Jail,
REVENGE ON ENGLAND
MOTIVE OF ST0WAWAY
Intended to Guido the Moewe
as Raider of Commerce.
Had Been ExiIed to United
States.

icy MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WlRel
I.ewes, Del, March 31.--Fearing
that attempts would be made to res
cue Ernst Schiller, the young German
stowaway who single handed captur-
ed the British steamer Matoppo and
terrorized her crew of fifty-siX men
on the high seas last Wednesday night
detectives tonight took Schiller from
his cell in the town jail and hurried
him by automobile to Harrington
from where he will be taken by train
TO New York.
The detectives declared they had
received positive information that at
tempts would be maze to rescue the
prisoner and with the consent of the
local authorities they decided that he
would he safer in New York. Schiller
himself readily consented to go, say
ing that he would do anything to keep
out of the hands of the British Off
cials.
Detailed Confession.
During the afternoon Schiller was
given a hearing before Justice of the
Peace Register, and made a detailed
statement as to his motives in start
ing what he termed a privateering eX-
petition. Revenge against England
for arresting him as spy as well
as the spoils he expected to secure,
he declared, were the impelling mo-
tives. He was uncertain, he said,
whether the four men he had picked
80 Accompany MIN had abandoned
the enterprise.
"They were not Germans" Schiller
declared. u was the only German
concerned, and only for my hard luck
would have turned a better trick than |
the Moewe did when she captured the !
Appam. | was terribly handicapped I
by depending ON buns and crooks to
assist me.
Arrested in England.
"In making war on England | am
guilty of nothing more than breach (.
of neutrality laws of this country. | (
was peacefully practicing my pro- (
fession of textile engineer in Hull, /
Eng. when the war broke out A
friend of mine was arrested charged .
with signalling with calcium lights to |
the raiding Zeppelins. He was shot
and | was arrested. | had commit |
ted no offense but | was shut up IN /
dirty Jail and greatly Inundated
although there was no evidence
against me-
Schiller here halted his recital long /
enough to request assurances that /
this government would take charge OF
the case and that he would not be
surrendered to Great Britain. He |
was told that was matter to be de- |
cided later. Continuing he said;
Exiled to America. /
81 told the Hull officials that if .
they persisted in prosecuting me on I
account of my German nativity they
would pay for it dearly. They could |
find no excuse for shooting me so
they punished me by exiling me from
the country and so | came to America. |
| spent some time in DanbHry, New
Haven and Bridgeport, Conn, and
finally went to Boston, where | Sc
cured employment with textile COM
pany
"All the time ! was thirsty for re-
venge on the English and | used 10
lie awake at night studying how to
get square and doing something Tor
Germany at the same time. Then II
occurred to me that it would be much
simpler for a prize crew to run the
British blockade. / went to Hoboken
with my plans fully formulated ana
there got together my gang, picking
out four of the most likely looking
fellows to accompany me on the eA-
petition. / told them | was out TO
capture a British steamer and make
it my Yacht and explained that five OF