The sun., 1916-11-13

stand and give the entire translation OF
the code letters. although l shall not
reveal the secret code. No agent CON
nected with this affair Is guilty. IL there
he guilt ! am alote to blame and h
shoulder 1t.
Admits Tactics Were "unethical."
There were three letters brought here
by three agents coming by three DIFF
fcrent routes. If the German has
had believed me the cost Of getting the
letter., here would have been gladly paid
by Prince Iiatzfeldt. But they didn't
pay and now they're sorry.
Ethics? why discuss ethics? I
shall even admit now that my practices
were unethicai On the face OF things.
but when dealing with men who falsify
the grand seal Of the United states and
Secretary Bryan's handwriting until
they fool even the American Embassy
In Berlin-their counterfeit passports.
you'll remember. were uncovered first by
the British-when | deal with men like
that I am Justified In using the methods
they constantly practise.
Anything. everything. Count Won
Bcrnstorff and his assistants do. 30 long
as II Is done for Germany. Is right. But
If you gore their bull in the same IA
It's all wrong. One cannot blacKmail a
Governrtn ut, but IT they accuse me OF
attempting to extort. extract or what
ever they want to call II. money from
the German Government then I answer,
Guilty
Doubts II They Bring Him TO Trial.
let them bring me to trial-wnich
they viii not. They know hat II they
did ] would go OF the stand and that
tlpn tlpT,'l la what yntI cal gnfnathinp
doing"
AS | came into this room to-day UNI
der the protection OF the secret service
man I had asked for I saw at once that
the place had been entered during the
night. In this top drawer Indicating
his desk) I had left some code t~ransla.
tions Of the letters written on the very
thin paper we use in such work. In de
cooling a Government letter the key Is
written on paper such as the thin pink
sheets ! used. The thin paper then IL
placed over the letter to be decided and
both sheets held to the light in such a
way that the key line IL just above the
line in the letter to be decided.
mot having the master key I had I,
go slow and work hard getting out thu
translation on my pink ape When
looked into the desk drawer this morn.
ing-the secret service man was with
me still-my pink papers had beer
taken. My books on those shelves oveI
there had been left all awry by whoever
had moved them to search back Of thu
books. In my bedroom my belongings
had been dumped out Of rawer ont,
the bed. on the window there are thu
marks made in prying It open.'
shows secret service Receipt.
Graves here showed tn tho renort.r a
receipt signed. he said. by the secret ser.
vice man during the forenoon. 1t was a
receipt for three photographs which
Graves said he Ia turned over to the
secret service man for delivery in wash
ington to A. Bruce Bielaski. chief OF the
bureau Of investigation of the Depart
ment Of ~Justice-an official. incidentally
Graves yesterday praised enthusiasticall,
for his efficiency and integrity.
THE alleged spy said that he Is nov
ian American first. last and always" ii,
said he had taken out first papers re
Gently. that he was a strong admirer OF
President Wilson and that he had "wor
n lot OF money on Wilson election day
How he made his statement that he wa,
"a stanch American" iibe with his admis
sion that ne had tried to 'serve the Ger
man Embassy" by turning owe to Primo,
Hatzfeldt letters containing information
'~damnable" to the United States wa.
gone into toward the close Of the inter
view with little success. His eNplana
ton OF ~harmonizing Americanism will
his recent activities was not clear.
Filth German Loa Nearly Com
pI~te.
BERLIN Thy wireless. Nov. Eth
a,n,,p pail an sthSSvinfipnS To tho AT