Arizona republican., 1916-04-01
CAPT TAUSCHER HELD 0N CHARGE
 IF CONSPIRACY.
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NEW YORK, March 31.-Captaln Hans Tauscher, said to be an officer in the German navy and reputed to he the head of the Tauscher Arms company of this city, as well as the American representative of the Krupps Gun Works, was arrested here yesterday by federal authorities on warrant charging conspiracy. Cap- tain Tauscher is the husband of Jo- hanna Gadski. the grand opera singer.
 The warrant was sworn to lon in- formation and belief" by William M. Offley, a special agent of the depart ment of justice. The complaint also names Alfred A. Fritzen, who is not yet under arrest.
 It is charged that Tauscher and Fritzen, on August 15, 1914, set on foot military enterprise to be car ried on from the United States against the Dominion of Canada. for the pur- pose of destroying or damaging the Welland canal. The defendants named are said to have had four as- sociates.
 It also is alleged that the defen- dants ordered a large quantity of dy namite and other explosives and that on or about September IA. 1914 all the defendants except Tauscher left New York carrying the dynamite in suit cases and proceeded by rail to Niagara Falls. Sources of informa- tion on which the complaint is based are kept secret, for the stated reason that to disclose them would be con- trary to policy.
 Tauscher was arrested at his of flee in this city and taken before United States Commissioner Haugh- ton. He entered a plea of not guilty, and was held under bond of $2o.000 for examination on April 15.
 The arrect of Tauscher and the naming of Fritzen in the complaint said to have been the direct result of examination by federal authorities here of Horst von Der Goltz, also known as Bridgeman Taylor, who arrived Tuesday from Liverpool on the steamship Finland accompanied by a Scotland Yards detective. The information furnished by von Der Goltz, it is said, completed a chain ! of evidence that federal authorities have been molding against six men for a year and half. Other arrests are expected soon.
 From representatives of the de- partment of justice it was learned to- day that the plot in which Eauscher is alleged to have been implicated, was the first of several believed to have been originated in the United States and having the destruction of the Welland canal as their purpose In outlining the evidence against Tauscher and his alleged confederate federal agents said today that Soon after the war broke out party of six men purchased from an explosive company in this city a quantity of dynamite
 The dynamite was taken by them at near Gravesend bay it is charged, the launch proceeding to a dock on 1 the Hudson river in Harlem. where 1 the dynamite was unloaded and taken | in cab to boarding house in Man haitian.
 There it is asserted, the explosive was fitted with Illuminating caps and electrical devices for exploding them. after which it was packed in six suit cases that the alleged conspirators took with them over the New York Central railroad to Buffalo and from | there to Niagara Falls.
 At this point the journey was in terrupted for some reason which the | federal officers decline to disclose at present. and the party is said to have returned to this city with the danger ous baggage.
 Federal officers declared that de- tails of the alleged plot have been known ever since its failure, and that evidence against the principals had
 been gradually piling up, the missing
 details being supplied by von Del Goltz
 A later plan to destroy the Welland
 canal. which resulted in the arres
 and indictment of Paul Koenig, thu officers said. mad no direct connection
 with the case now under investiga
 tion. Information regarding Fritzei
 was withheld. It was said, however s'~' eiii SiA .ol liiC dhcScu COIlSpiId tors are in the United States.
 The identity of the vessel iron which the dynamite is said to hay, been taken has not been disclosed but it was declared she was not tn
 German steamer Magdeburg for a lon
 time after the war started was a
 anchor in Gravesend bay with a carg of dynamite.
 0 The charge against Tauscher an
 F'ritzen is based on the provisions O Section 13 of the United States crim
 inal code( which prescribes penalt | of not more than three years impri
 sonment and fine of $3,000 for 'be
 ginning, setting on foot or preparin
 within the confines of tho Unite
 States a military expedition directe
 against a foreign power with whic
 the United States is at peace" Tauscher is understood to have as
 serted today that he was not in tf ! United States on the date the COT
 spiracy is alleged to have been forme
 and that he did not return until mir
 or ten days later