New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-12
Hearst Writer Testihes Be-
fore Attorney Gen
eral Lewis
Explains Phone Calls
Says Forty Others Have His
Number, Often Called
by Pacha

William Bayard Hale, ono Of William
Randolph Hoarst's special writers was
a witness ut the investigation conduct
ed BY Merton f. Lewis, State Attorney
General, to determine the extent OF
Rolo Pacha's connections with the
enemy. il became known yesterday
DR.. Hale. il was learned, was served
at his home, 800 Riverside Drive, with
two subprnaes at o:3o last Saturday
night by one Of Attorney General Lew
ISIS process servers. One called for has
appearance forthwith. The other a
subpoena duces tecum, called for the
immediate production Of oil papers he
might have in his possession relating
TO Bolo Pacha.
Or. Hale picked up from table In
his library Tribune and "Sun' OF
Saturday. and informed the process
server he was ready. The two then
were driven to the Murray Hill Hotel,
where they went to the rooms OF Alfred
Becker. Assistant State Attorney Gen
eral.
Or. Hale. after being sworn, was
asked II he had brought the papers
called for IN the subpoena duces
tecum. He answered that the only
papers he had IN his possession relat-
ing to Bolo Pacha consisted OF that
days Tribune and Sun"
Hale Denies Knowing Pacha
Or. Hale, before another question
was put to him. swore that he had
never met the spy, had never seen him,
had never communicated with him in
any way. and that. naturally. he did not
have any documents in his possession
relating TO Bolo PGcha. He said the
first he heard Of Bolo was when the
newspapers told Of his arrest in Paris.
The Assistant State Attorney Cen
oral then showed DR.. Hale what pur-
ported 20 be a record OF telephone
calls TO Academy ZIG from Bolo Pacha's
apartment in the Hotel Plaza. where he
stopped when in this city plotting with
Count Won BernstorfT for moulding
French public opinion to the end that
France would be forced into making a
separate peace with Germany.
The telephone directory gives the
number of DR.. Hale's phone as Aca-
DENY Sl6. This telephone number,
however, is also that Of the apartment
house in which DR.. Hale lives, 800
Riverside Drive.
DR.. Hale said that Bolo Pacha never
that there were forty families living
in the house.
Knows Nothing of Messengers
What purported to be a record dis
closing the sending Of messenger boys
from Bolo Pacha 20 1862 Riverside
Drive during the months of February
and March of 1916 was next shown
to DR.. Hale. Again he said he could
not explain them, and that he was GER
tain Bolo Pacha never sent any mes
sages or anything else TO him.
DR.. Hale, when seen at his apart
ment last night, admitted he had been
subpoenaed before Assistant State
Attorney General Becker and ex.
amined He said that he did not care
to discuss what took place, as that
was n matter he believed should be
divulged by the State Attorney Gen.
erals office.
/ "Mr. Becker was most courteous anC
candid. and no official could have done
his duty in more gentlemanly man
ner," he said.
A DR.. Hale, II is recalled, was men
/ toned IN the documents made public
/ by the State Department on Wednes
day. DR.. Hale was mentioned in on,
of a series of kilograms that were SEN
/ by Count Won Bernstorff TO the Ger
man Foreign Office. which, with tele
grams to the Ambassador from hi,
government, disclosed a plot to de
stroy muniton factories in America
by sabotage and the destruction o
Canadian railways The reference e
Dr. Hale in the ambassadors messag,
was:
The Embargo Conference. in regart
20 whose earlier fruitful cooperation
pr Hale can give information. IS jus
about TO enter upon vigorous cam
paign TO secure a majority in boti
houses Of Congress favorable 20 Ger
many and requests further support"
Hale Then in Germany
Dr. Hale denied that he had eve
been questioned about the Embarg,
Conference by any one in Germany. II,
was in Germany representing the
Hearst newspapers in September. 1916
when Won Bernstorff sent the Telegram
TO the Foreign Office In the seizeC
documents of Heinrich Albert, tht
stock specializing Geheimrat and mas
ter spy. made public in August 1916
| Or. Hale's name also figured in connec
tion with this same organization. some
7 Of whose leaders were German agents
The address Of the apartment house
where DR.. Hale lives has figured sew
oral times in The Investigation con-
Quoted by State Attorney Genera
/ Lewis at the request Of the French
government. Adolf Pavenstedt. fol
twenty years a German agent and BoiC
/ Pacha's go-between. was questioned
about the address. He was a wines:
the same day Dr. Hale was called. OR
that occasion he was asked by NJ
Becker:
IL asked you several days ago if you
knew any one in connection with Bolc
at 362 Riverside Drive. | am no~ in
formed that that Is the apartment
h. Nfesu nnae