Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-06
Hindu and German Arrest
ed in New York, Charged
With Setting on Foot Elk
petition Against Friendly
Nation.
HAND OF Won IGEL
SEEN IN THE AFFAIR
Confession Made That Arch
German Plotter Paid Men
Under Arrest 100000 to
Foster the Movement for
Uprising in India.

uprising In lndla.
New York, March 6. DR.. Chanader
Chakiaberty, Hindu physician, and
DR.. Ernest Sckunner, a German, are
under arrest at New York police head
quarters, charged with setting on foot
a military expedition against friend
ly nation" They will be arraigned be-
fore federal authorities.
The two admitted. after a grilling
lasting from o'clock last night to
o'clock this morning, that they had re-
ceived $50, 900 from Wolff Won Igel, al
legged German potter
REVOLUTION IN INDIA.
The object Of the plot. according 10
the police, was to start revolution in
India.
The two men were taken from a
sumptuously furnished apartment at
36i West 120th street, where, detectives
stated, they found a quantity of mys-
terious chemicals, pamphlets for incit-
ing the Hindoos to revolt and a large
amount Of aluminium caps shaped like
pill boxes.
Sckunners confession is said TO have
revealed the plot. 1t is declared to
have been corroborated by his Hindu
companion. He is said to have told
the policy that Chakiaberty went to
Germany some time ago, travelling un-
der false passport. He returned with
information, it is stated, and reported
to Won Igel in Washington.
Won Igel, it is said, gave the men
$4,000 for carrying on their operations.
EXPECT OTHER ARRESTS.
The police declared other arrests are
expected. The connection of Chi |
nese, who is said to have agreed TO
get munitions into India from China, is |
being investigated.
Won Igel is now on the Frederik VIII, |
homeward bound with Count Won Bern
storff, having had his $4,000 bond I'M
der a conspiracy indictment released |
the day before the ship sailed. He was |
held, along with Hans Tauscher, Krupp |
agent in the United States, in connec-
ton with the Welland canal plot. Won |
lgel was given safe conduct as a mem !
Der of German ambassadors party. |
1t was indicatef, when his bond was
lifted, that the department of justice |
at Washington approved his release and |
return to Germany.
Since the departure of Bernstorff |
there have been reports o a S2,0O0,000 |
propaganda fund left here, to be used ,
by German agents working for some
unknown new chief
TWO CASES CONNECTED.
The arrest of the two alleged plot
tiers today was made by Captain Tun-
ney. police bomb expert, who was sent
to Hoboken yesterday afternoon when
Deputy Police Commissioner Skull re-
ceived word of the arrest of Fritz
Kolb.
The connection between the two
cases was not apparent, but Chief of
Police Hayes of Hoboken was quoted
today as predicting six more arrests
would follow from the arrest of Kolb.
in whose room were found bombs and
explosives.
PLAN TO DESTROY suBWAY7
Two possible new angles of the re-
ported wholesale plot developed today
when the detective department sent
men to every subway station in the
city on hearing of plan to blow up
the subway and Jersey authorities re-
ported munition shipments yesterday
put a greater supply of high explosives
on Black Tom peninsula than the great
freight terminal has ever known be-
fore,
The detective division refused to dis
cuss the tip which caused them to take
preca utionary measures in the sub
way. The new shipments of munitions
for the allies to the scene of the great
devastating explosion six months ago
made 1t a great prize for a bomb
squad il such is now plotting destruc-
tion of munition plants, as scratching
to indicate.
Black Tom is now jammed with
highly explosive munitions.
sWEATED BY POLICE.
While those two alleged plotters
were held without bail for a hearing
in Hoboken tomorrow, having been
sweated by police and federal agents
for hours, two plotters of a much
higher order, whose scheme involved a
revolt in India, were turned over to
federal authorities in New York.
DR.. c. Hanader Chakiaberty, a Hindu |
physician, who recently returned from |
a visit TO Germany, and DR.. Ernest |
Sckunner, a German, were arrested to- |
day in, their lavishly furnished Morning |
Side apartment. Five hours of grilling |
by Deputy Commissioner Skull IL was |
said, brought from them the admission |
that 100000 of the German propaganda |
fund left in this country when Count
Won Bernstorff, Wolff Won Igel ana |
Hans Tauscher sailed on the Frederik |
vIlI was turned over TO the pair to be |
used in fomenting a revolt and plot |