The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-09
PLOTS AND CONSPIRACIES
BY GERMANS UNEARTHED
Object to Destroy Munition Plants and
Involve U. S. With Foreign Countries

Fritz Kolb, German reservist was
found in Hoboken, N. J. the first of the
week with lot of chemicals, bombs and
incriminating papers. Two others were
arrested in connection with Kolb and
some Of them have confessed to the
blowing up Of Black Tom island, in
New York harbor in which several
million dollars worth Of war material
was destroyed and some twenty men
lost their lives. Kolb lived in the
same hotel in which Robert Fay and
Hans Schiller who were arrested last
summer charged with conspiracy to
blow up British merchant ships. An
other lot of suspects led BY Hans
Schwartz were arrested Tuesday in New
Jersey. Schwartz is a chemist, 81 years
old and had placed bombs to again
blow up the Black Tom island muni-
tions plant, which failed because it
refused to work.
Kolb was identified at police head
quarters as former employe OF the
Canadian Car & Foundry Co., at
Kingland, N. j., by Thomas Steele,
a negro, also a former worker at that
plant. Steele told the police be work
ed in the same room with Kolb, where
there had been an explosion previous
TO the great fire and that OF % men
employed in the room, Kolb was the
man who disappeared.
A New York dispatch Of the 9th
states that DR.. c. Hanador Chakia-
bercy, a Hindu physician, and DR..
Ernest Schunner, "a, described as
German, were arrested today on charges
Of conspiring to set up military ex-
pedition against foreign country on
friendly relations with the United
States. The police say the men con-
fessed that they had plotted, under
direction OF Wolf Won Igel, to invade
India by way of China.
Won Igel, indicted but never tried
for completely in an alleged plot to
destroy the Welland canal, is with
Count Won Bernstorff, former German
ambassador to the United States, who
is approaching Copenhagen on the
steamer Frederik VIII.
From Won Igel, according to the
police, DR.. Chakiaberty and Schunner,
who have been suspected for some
time, received $4,000 and the
Hindoo, posing as Persian merchant,
obtained a passport which enabled
him to get to Berlin. In this connec
ton an additional charge OF fraudulently
obtaining a passport has been made
against the physician.
Dr.. Chakiabercy, according to the
confession, revealed his plans OF an
invasion of India TO certain officials in
Berlin and then returned to New York,
where he and Won Igel prepared
literature printed in various native India
languages. In the house in West
10th street where the two men were
arrested today the police seized large
quantities of literature and found also
complete chemical laboratory.
After the literature was prepared,
according to the police, DR.. Chakia-
bercy and Schunner employed as their
agents an influential Chinaman whom
they sent to his native country with
the idea of interesting Ehis government
in a plan to ship firearms and ammu-
milton from the United States to China,
where with the Chinese governments
permission, they were to be stored
until the time set for the invasion.
The police said the two men declared
they had heard nothing from their
Chinese representative and did not
know what success, if any,he had.
In the laboratory Sckunner was en-
deavoring. according to the police, to
compound preparation to be used TO
disguise contraband Of wa"
The character Of this preparation he
refused to disclose. Ten thousand
small aluminium boxes, about the size
Of pill box, were seized, together with
what appeared to be official papers.
The latter have been turned over TO
government agents.
A later dispatch states that Fritz