Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-24
Baron Dr. Max Won ReckIing-.
hausen, a German Subject,
Is Arrested at Same Time by
Federal Agents in New York..
BROAD CONSPIRACY
BELIEVED UNCOVERED
Prisoner Is Thought to Have
Been Delegated by Won Bern
Storff to Remain in America
to Furnish information,

tsy sosmso JOURNAL spsolAL LEASED wssr
/ New York Oct. 23.-Liam Mel
loves, one of the recognized leaders
in the Sim Fein rebellion in Ireland
on Easter Monday 1916, and an as
sociate, Baron DR.. Max Won Reckling-
hausen, German subject, are under
arrest in this city, it was announced
today by William j. Flynn, chief of
the United States secret service.
The arrests were made on the eve
of an announcement by Premier Lloyd
George in the house of commons that
the British government had knowl-
edge of another plot to land arms in
Ireland
Mellowes is charged with obtaining
false papers to enable him TO leave
the United States as an American sea-
man.
Money Sent TO France.
Won Recklnghausen, styled by
Flynn as "a patent engineer of no lit
tie ability has been turned over to
federal authorities for internment dur
ing the war. He is declared to have
been an intimate associate of Sim
Feiners. A statement issued by Flynn
said papers found in Won Reckling-
hausen's rooms and on his person
show definitely that large sums of
money had gone forward to France
for ultimate German purposes.
Mellowes was arrested Monday
night in possession of seamen's pass
port made out in the name of Patrick
Donnelly, and which it is declared he
intended to use in returning to Ire
land.
After the failure of the Irish revo'
luton last year, Mellowes made his
way to the United States by shipping
as coal HEAVIER, according to Flynn's
statement. Secret service agents had
him under surveillance shortly after
his arrival and learned of his associa-
ton with DR.. Patrick McCarton,
known to his Sim Fein associates in
this country as the first ambassador
to the United States of the Irish re-
r.iblic." the statement said. They
plotted to return to Ireland and Nc
carton SlllppSu vi oii
steamship leaving New York last
Wednesday.
McCarton Held i'm Canada.
On advices from New York secret
service men, McCarton was arrested at
Halifax and is held there pending
prosecution for his completely in the
Dublin riots and his activities in this
country since early last year, accord
ing to Flynn.
considerable literature and papers
of interest to this government were
taken in the raid Of the premises OF
Mellowes and yon Recklinghausen
and It will be some time before the
ramificatons of this plot can be thor
oughly detailed" said Flynn in an
nouncing the arrests. He declared
Won Recklinghausen "hase been men
toned as an envoy left here by Count
Won Bernstorff," and that he main
tanned two residences in New York,
one of which Is near an East river
bridge. commanding view of the
river.
"yon Recklnghausen was also as
sociated with a group of Turks at one
of the several houses occupied by the
oonsnirators," says Flynn's statement.
which added that short time ago
four of these Turks attempted to leave
on a neutral vessel, on mission the
nature of which finally prevented
their sailing.