The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-06
BOMBS SEIZED, GERMAN TAKEN
 AS A PLOTTER
Complete Infernal Machine Making Outfit Is Taken In
 Raid at HObOken.

German subject, was arrested yester- day in the Commercial hotel, PIP River street, Hoboken, after Capt. Thomas J. Tunney and members of the New York police bomb squad had raided his room in the hotel and found two bombs made of steel pipe, a quantity of black powder, some pic- rio acid and other materials for mak- ing bombs.
 Investigation of the bombs led the police to suspect strongly that the steel pipes came from the wrecked interior machinery of the German Line steamships tied up at Hoboken, which was wrecked when the United States savered diplomatic relations with Germany.
 Viewed as Kingsland Suspect.
 Kolb's arrest also disclosed for the first time that the officials of the Canadian Car and Foundry Co., whose ed by explosion Jan. 10, are search ing for a former employe who left just before the explosion. District Judge c. l.. Fake of Rutherford and c. H. Cahan. Jr.. lawyers for the Canadian
 
 see if they could identify Kolb as the suspected employe.
 Judge Fake said that although they found 8 strong resemblance between Kolb and the former employe ,as shown by a photograph, he did not think Kolb was the man. Judge Fake declined to say what other in- formation the company had regarding the Kingsland explosion.
 The police say that Kolb told &C., quaintances in Hoboken three weeks ago he was going to cause another explosion on Black Tom, the Lehigh Valley Railroad pier. Some remarks that he dropped to this effect started the investigation that resulted in his arrest. Although Kolb denied having anything to do with the Black Tom explosion of July 31 last, the police say he showed remarkable familiar ity with the neighborhood of the pier.
 Loaded Bomb Found Hidden.
 Wrapped in one of Kolbs soiled shirts in the bottom drawer of his dresser, the police found a loaded bomb made of a piece of steel pipe seven inches long and an inch and a quarter In diameter. Around the pipe was coil of copper tubing, perforat- ed, in which, the police say, the fuse WAS to be inserted.
 Another bomb, identical with the first, but unloaded. the police found in the cubby hole under the wash basin in Kolb's room, No. 22, a small hall bedroom on the top floor of the hotel. In addition they found two tin cylinders, T 1-2 by 3 inches, de- : signed to contain the bombs when completed; ten pounds of copper tub Ing, several coils of thin steel wire, a small drug box full of licric acid, two laboratory bottles containing benzine and gasoline, small bottle contain ing alcohol a tin flask of black pow der. q quantity of resin and several rolls of cotton.
 Altogether, Capt. Tunney said, it was as complete a bomb outfit as he police found a pair of pliers. Tn his suit case they found a small notebook containing names and addresses of men and women in Hoboken and Brooklyn and letters from two which seemed to be answers to appli- cations for a position as weigher.
 Second Black Tom Alleged Plan.
 Kolb was seized as he sat at lunch in the hotel grill room and taken to police headquarters in Hoboken where he was questioned several hours. He was locked up on a charge of having 2 explosives in his possession, a mtsde meanor under New Jersey law, pun 1shable by one years imprtson- mont.
 Reports that Kolb confessed part In the Black Tom explosion and com plicity in the explosion of the Cana dian Car and Foundry Co.'S munitions plant at Kingsland, N. J., were em- phatically denied by all the investi- gators. The still wilder rumor, cur rent in the afternoon, that Kolb said he was going to send the bombs to President Wilson for his inauguration was found to be ground1ess.
 Kolb said very little. He said he could not speak English. Through an interpreter he denied making the bombs He said he permitted a tall blond German, whom he knew only as Karl" to use his room for a bomb laboratory. Karl" he said, sup piled him with money, but did not tell him what the bombs were for. Kolb said he met "Karr about three weeks ago in a Hoboken saloon.
 Suspect Spy System Connection.
 Although neither the Hoboken po- lice nor Capt. Tunney last night had any definite evidence that Kolb was anything but a solitary bomb plotter, they strongly suspect him to be con- nected with the German spy system, and will carefully follow up all his connections.
 Following his movements during three wees has disclosed that he new many Germans and yGerman-Ameri- cans in Hoboken. Chisr ok Police Hayes of Hoboken said last night that six ot her men appeared to be i'm phcated in Kolb's plans and that the trail might lead ''very high up.''
 The police officials in this city were not willing to admit this. Authori- ties on both sides of the river are in clined to believe that "Karl' is pure myth.
 e Pipes May Be from Liners
 Examination of the steel pipes, of Hoboken police to believe they were obtained from the ruined interiors of one or more of the German steam ships tied up at Hoboken. The Com mercial Hotel is directly opposite the piers of the North German Lloyd, and within a stone'S throw Of tho HaTa- burg-American line piers.
 The theory e the HobS.se-; police Is