New Britain herald., 1917-03-27
ALLEGED SPY HAD
 MAP OF FACTORIES Warrant for CObianchi for Core. spending With Foreign Govt. ARRESTED IN BRISTOL Warrant sworn Out This Afternoon by United States Comanassioner-
 Prisoner Had Plan to Place Gun
 Commanding City.
ARRESTED IN BRISTOL

Comnanding City.
 Hartford. March 27.-A warrant was issueed by United States Commits sioner Richard F. Carroll this after noon for the arrest of Leopold Co., bianchi, who Is held in Bristol on q charge of vagrancy. It charges the man with impersonating a govern ment omcer, and with corresponding with aforeign government to the detriment of the United States. Deputy Marshall Hawley went to Bris- tol this afternoon to bring the prisoner here.
 Gave False Name.
 Bristol, March 27.-Leopold Cobian- chi of New Haven, arrested last night on suspicion of espionage, was de- tained this morning on the charge of vagrancy until Prosecuting Attorney James IT. Mather could reach U. s. Attorney Spellacy for a conference. Cobianchi has told the police various stories in which there are widely diff fering assertions.
 Pasquale. Cobianchi, the young mans father, came here from New Haven this forenoon with his sons wife. Leopold has been married about three years. The wife showed a letter in which her husband had ad- dressed her as Miss Josephine Bell. He told her that in answering to be sure and address him as Ed Coby. This was the name he gave at the boarding house in which he was ar- rested last night. He has told the po- lice that two brothers were in Bristol last week.
 Pasquale Cobianchi has made no statement regarding his son.
 . Later MT. Mather had a telephone conversation with MT. Spellacy and 1t was decided to have Deputy United States Marshal Hawley come here and take Cobianchi to Hartford where he will be questioned by the attorney. The articles which were taken from the boarding house will also be scrut- inized. tf steA S. f
 The police say they fails, to, make much out,-o1 CobianehpsAst0ries. He hos declined to say who his companion was and. for whom there ,is a search. The police report that Saturday and Sunday strangers were noticed walking about several factories and they disap- peared upon noticing that they were attracting attention.
 Pending the inquiry by Mir. Spellacy the vagrancy charges against Cobian- chi will not be heard in the local court.
 Woman's Suspicious Aroused.
 The arrest followed notification of the police by Mrs. George s. ,Scherr, ot whose home the men had boarded. ot the finding of papers in the room, which aroused her suspicious.
 The police said that in a, suit case A S.~ A9.> sY,> ings showing the location of the va rious factories in the city. an outline drawing of g. gun placed on an emil under the outline apparently worked relation to the eminence. There were also maps of the United States with various sections outlined in. pencil, Q large map of Mexico. and time table of the Mexican Central railway. Another paper which the police say they found in the suit case had writ ter on 1t Herman submarine base in Mexico, 45 degrees E. L., 20 degrees D. M., and note which began ''The best way of reaching 1t without dis covery is by.' the remainder of the note being in cipher. There was also a. copy of speech apparently by Cobianchi in which he defended the German submarine warfare.
 Mrs. Scherr told the police that the man for whom they are now looking was the first to come to her house, and that later he brought Cobiancht and asked that he be accommodated also. When she inquired the business of the men, she told the police, they said they were government inspectors in the city on government work. The man now missing came to her house last week. she said. The police be- lieve he is the principal.
 May Be Local Spy.
 Leopold Cobianchi of New Haven. arrested in Bristol as 8 suspected spy for the Central Powers, in whose room was found sketches, maps and papers of a damaging and unexplained nature, Is, under suspicion of being the alleged spy discovered at the Traut & Hine Manufacturing com pany's plant one night last week, who dropped 8 code index as he escaped from Guard Peter Lambert and of be-