Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-14
More Arrests in
Fire Bomb Plot
WARRANTS SAID TO BE OUT FOR
TWO OTHERS
NINE PERSONS INVOLVED
Evidence Said to Indicate Not Only the
Shipment of Bombs to All Ports of
This Country, But to South America.

New York, April 13.-Three more
arrests were made tonight in connec-
ton with the alleged conspiracy to
destroy ships carrying war munitions
to the entente allies by placing fire
bombs" in their cargoeS. Warrants,
it was announced, are out for two
others, thus involving nine persons al
together. The arrests tonight closely
followed the arraignment before United
States Commissioner Houghton of the
four men taken into custody last night.
Three Additional Arrests.
The three additional prisoners are
Carl Schmidt, chief engineer of the
steamer Friedrich der Crosse of the
North German Lloyd line, and Fred
erick Praedie and Carl Paradis, assist
ants to Schmidt. The authorities still
are looking for Charles Karbade, also
an assistant engineer aboard the big
German vessel interned here, and Wal
ter T. Scheele, president of the New
Jersey Agriculture and Chemical COM
pany of Hoboken, where the bombs are
alleged to have been manufactured.
Evidence Indicates Widespread Con-
spiracy.
Assistant United States Attorney
Roger B. Wood, in charge of the prose-
cution, declares that the evidence thus
far obtained indicates a conspiracy
with far-reaching ramifications, in
GLIDING not only the shipment of bombs
to all ports of this country, but to
South America. He said the men un-
| der arrest and those for whom war
rants are out probably were not the
| ringleaders in the plot.
| Prisoners Waived Reading of Com
plant.
The four prisoners arraigned today
| waived the formal reading of the COM
plaint, made by Detective Sergeant
| George d. Barnitz, who asserted thai
| to divulge the sources of his informa'
tor at this time would be against
public policy. Captain Otto Wolpert
| superintendent of the Atlas line pier!
| of the Hamburg American Steamship
| company, and Captain Emo BOde, su'
! perintendent of the Hamburger American
line piers in Hoboken, y. j., each va!
he'6 in $25,OOO bail. while Ernes
Becker, an electrician on the steamel
Friedrich der Crosse, and Captain
Charles Won Kleist, superintendent o
the New Jersey Agriculture and Chem
icaI company, each, was held in $500
bail
A surety company furnished bonds
for BOde and NOlpert and they wer
| released. The others, however, wer
| unable to obtain bail and were parolet
| in the custody of Captain William VI
Oftey, in charge of the local bureau
of the department of justice A fur
| Ln6r examination was set lOE ApLAl .
What Complaint Charges.
The complaint charges that the min
men "conspired and agreed amOnt
themselves that they should within tn
admiralty and maritime jurisdiction o
the United States wilfully
felCniously and cOrruptly surprise an
by open force maliCiOusly attack an
| set upon vessels belonging to Others
with intent then and there unlawful
to despOil the owners of such vesse!
of money, goods and merchandise lade
on board such vessels"
Schmidt, Praedie and Paradis wer
arrested in HobUken. where the Fried
rich der Crosse has been tied up a
, her pier since the outbreak of the Eu
ropean war. They were brought I
police headquarters in this city an
probably will be arraiSned tomorrow.