The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-06

for German sympathizers ever since the war bSgan, lead the police to be- lieve he Vfd not work alone. Lieut.. Robert Fay, the German reservist, who was convicted of plotting to blow up munition ships, made his headquarters at the Commercial, as did Clarence Reginald Hodson, alias Ernest Schiller, the German pirate who, singlehanded, captured the British steamship Matoppo. Hermann Kohler, proprietor of the hotel for eighteen years, told a reporter that a German living in Jersey City fre quently visited Kolbs room. Kohler said he did not know the visitors name.
 After seizins Kolb, the police swooped down on the hotel three other times yesterday in an automo- bile. Each time they took back to Chief Hayess quarters a German who was supposed to be a friend of Kolb's. After questioning these men at length, however, the Chief released them. He said he was satisfied they knew noth- ing of Kolbs plans.
 The contents of the loaded bomb were sent to the Bureau of Combusti- bles in this city for analysis. In- spector Louis Liebermann of that bu- reau said he had never seen a bomb of similar design. The device of wrapping the fuse about the pipe in copper tubing, he said, enabled the planter to gauge perfectly the time that would elapse between lighting the fuse and the explosion of the bomb.
 Says He Was in Mexico.
 Kolb, an undersized but wiry man, told the police he is thirty-three years old. He said he was born in small town near Cologne and was a sailor by trade. Hd said he came to Amer ica in July, 1914, because his parents girl of his choice He came, he said, In the tank steamer Oozaga of the Standard Oil Co.,, leased by the Rick mers Line of Hamburg. No ship of the name appears in Lloyd's regis ter.
 After landing at Bayonne, Kolb said he went to Mexico for few weeks returning after the outbreak of the European war. The letters found in his room indicate that a year later he
 
 Hoffmann-La Roche Chemical Go. of Mo- 40 Washington street, Manhat- tan A letter dated June 29, 1915, from that firm advises him to call at the office in regard to employment. Manager Cody said last night Kolb never worked for his firm, and could not find copy of the letter sent to Kolb. The police said another let ter was from chemical works in Brooklyn.
 Woman Denies Knowing Him.
 In the well-thumbed notebook found on Kolb was the address and telephone number of the Cassella Color Go, 1S2 Front street, Manhat- tan. He had jotted down on other pages, Miss lizzie Pulveritis, 133 Washington street. Hoboken; Alvi2 Ruepke, PIP River street, and Carl Well. 1712 Putnam avenue. Brook lyn."
 To a reporter who found him at '1712 Putnam avenue, Ridgewood, last night, Well said he met Kolb IT months ago.. He was the porter in the hotel at 100 Hudson street, Ho- boken. Well said:
 'I didn't even know his last name. I happened to go back there last Sep tember for visit and he asked me for my address and gave it.'' 2 Veil said he is employed in a dye ing establishment.
 Miss Lizzie P,lveritis of 133 Wash ingtop street is the daughter of Louis Pulveritis, saloonkeeper at that ad- dress. She said last night she did not know Kolb. Alvin Ruepke is bar tender at the Commercial Hotel.
 Up to six weeks ago, Kolb said, he worked as bartender for Theodore Kemper at Fourteenth street and Madison avenue, Newark. Kemper last night told a reporter Kolb went to woJk in the saloon early last sum- mer, having obtained the position through an employment agency in Hoboken.
 n In Saloon on Day of Explosion.
 "He told me-" said Kemper, that he had studied chemistry in Germany, but had failed to get position in this country because he could not speak English. On the day of the Kingsland explosion he was at work in the sa- loon. While he worked for me he lived at BPS South Fourteenth street, Newark. He was always quiet and well-mannered.''
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