Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-31
SUSPECT A THIRD
IN WELLAND PLOT
Department of Justice Officials
Also Expect Fourth Ar
rest Shortly.
GERMAN SPY TELLS PLAN
BLOW UP THE CANAL
Won der Goltz Says Capt. Won Papen
Indorsed Plan After Invasion Of
Canada Was Abandoned.

| Department OF Justice officials
announced TODAY that two alleged
conspirators with Capt. Hans
! rauscher. arrested Yesterday III
New York. charged with beng
i'll the plot t" blow up the " ell
land canal, were under arrest III
New York. that a third was i'm
der surveillance in New England
and that they expected 20 arrest
d fourth in a few days
| According to the story told depart
ment agents by Horst Won der Goltz.
the alleged German spy brought to New
Tuesday, the plan to blow up the Wei
| land canal was known to Capt. Won
attache. who furnished money for the
work.
Won Papen Indorsed Plan.
/
Won der Goltz was quoted as saving
| that Won Papen had indorsed the Well
/ and canal proposal after it had been
dec led that it would be impossible to
| lead d large armed expedition into Can
ada from the United States. Won der
| Gioltz had sought to enlist Germans in
Baltimore. Hoboken and New York. and
| department agents say he declared he
/ was acting with the knowledge of Won
| Papen.
| Won der Goltz came to the United
/ States in July. 1914, from Mexico, where
he had been on Gen. Villas staff, and
| reported to Won Papen. The plan to
| invade Canada, he told department
| agents. had been his. not Won Papen's.
| After he had obtained Won Papens in
| dorsement, Won der GoltZ said, he went
| to Baltimore to induce Germans of the.
| crews of German merchant vessels tied
Z, up there to join him. He also tried
| to obtain recruits from German sailors
| at Hoboken and New York.
Plan Was Abandoned
After a time, Won der Goltz said. the
plan was abandoned. The intended
point of invasion, officials said, was
west of the great lakes" The force
which Won der Goltz wanted to raise
| for the expedition was to be sufficiently
large to engage the attention of the
troops Canada was training to send to
| Europe.
| der GoltZ said. he proposed blowing up
| the Wel1and canal. Tauscher was to
| furnish the dynamite. and Won der GoItz
| was to take four men with him to do
/ the work
| The additional arrests announced to-
day We're of men in the party. officials
said. and had been made some time ago,
/ but kept under cover until the lnvesti
| cation could be completed.
First Arrest a Month Ago.
The first arrest was made in New
| Y fork nearly a month ago. where the
prisoner. a German named Busse. is
i now held secretly by department
! agents The second arrest was made
, in FL Paso about two weeks ago. and
| the prisoner. who spoke broken Eng
/ lisI said his name was r. Tucker.
/ He was selling small metal repicas of
1.-The German cruiser Emden. He
| taken to New York, locked up at Ellis
Island. where he now is confined, and
later told the departments agents his true
| name. He admitted that he had been one
| of Won der Goltz s compa Mons in the
project to destroy the Welland canal
| Busse is held under charge Of con-
| spiracy. officials said and Tucker is held
| as material witness A charge may be
! made against him later.
| The third of Won der GoltZs alleged ac-
| cornplices is an Italian. officials said. who
| has been under surveillance some time in
y New England, and can be arrested al any
time The fourth and last is d German,
| Alfred a. E'rtZen. who was mentioned
! in the complaint against Tauscher Frit-
Zen's wherea bouts are believed to be
known and his arrest is expected.
| Lsrfy0 nd Iar I,~It
all were in the pay of Won Papen de-
| partment agents said. Their names ap-
| pear on the stubs of Won Papen's check
books seized by the British while Capt
| Won Papen was on his way home and
| Won der GoltZ has told department
| agents that Won Papen sent them other
| sums of money which do not appear
on the stubs Some of this money was
| were waiting their chance to get across
the international line and dynamite the
canal.
| NEW YORK. March 31.-Capt Hans
Tauscher. said to be an officer in the
German navy and reported to be the
head Of the Tauscher Arms Company of
this city. as well as the American rep
| resentative of the krupp gun works
| was arrested here yesterday by federal
authorities on warrant charging con-
| spiracy. Capt Tauscher is the husband
of Johanna Gadski, the grand opera
singer.
The warrant was sworn to "on in
formation and belief" by William NJ
Otfiey, special agent of the Depart
ment of Justice. The complainant in
the case also names Alfred A, Fritzen
1t is charged that Tauscher and Frit-
zen. August Is. 1914 set on foot a mill
tary enterprise to be carried on from
the United States against the Dominion
of Canada for the purpose of destroy
ing or damaging the Welland canal
The defendants named are said to have
had four associates