The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-14

For six $WeekS the ponce nave sought to corner him and his. con9- panion but in each instance he beat them by 24 hours, He has obtained a thorough knowledge of the work ings of every plant in Bridgeport i'm cIuding the U. M. o., in which he worked under 8 fictitious name. In his short stay in this city he has ob- tained employment in four factories, working just long enough in each to plant to gain a thorough knowledge of it's line of manufacture and it's system of guards.
 91 The suspected man came to this country from Brazil, South America, known to government agents as hot-bed of German intrigue and one of the headquarters for the plottings of their spies and the spreading of German propaganda.
 His every move since then points to his connection with the Teuton syS- tenn of espionage. He spent sometime after leaving Brazil, in Mexico, which is known to be overrun with German agents and is believed to have mapped out in that country his plan of cam paign in the United States.
 The time he spent in parts of South America, Mexico and the United States, the dates and months of his arrival and departure. he contradicted a half dozen times when shrewdly and sharply questioned by Capt. B. O. Cronan of the detective bureau. He would trap himself time and again. <
 He lied about the time he had spent as an emp1oye of the intuition plant on Black Tom Island where ar explosion cost many lives. He denied he ever set foot on the island until months after the explosion and then admitted that he was in New Jersey before and since the catastrophe. Taciturn, srlllen, volunteering Ato tell nothing, he answered to each question |literally dragged from him by Cronan he would continually blurt out, when some discrepancy was found in his answer to questions, You've got noth' | ing on me. You can't do anything te me- Then he would clinch his fist: in a baffied rage.
 In his efforts the last six weeks te shake from his trailSDetectives James Dooley and George Simon, men whose persistency and dogged determination to get him, resulted in his arrest, he | has moved through Bridgeport's pub lie streets, from post to pillar, walk ing arsenal of death, and a. menace tt citizens and property
 Tn his flights from various roomins 1 houses he has carried with him th' dress suit cases, riding for the mos part, it is reported, in jitneys. A ser l ious collision, the wrenching from hi grasp of one of the bags and the con sequences can readily be visualized. ] Knowing that Detectives Doo1e. and Simon were hard upon his trail he quietly quit his job at the U. M. c and American Tube & Stamping plant and stated he was going back to Bra gil" hoping this explanation of hi leaving would cause his pursuers u drop their efforts to catch him. Il each of these plants he gave fax l name and address.
 The police this morning worme from the defendant the fact that h l has lived in Germany for years an two years ago left Berlin, for Brazi
 Manzamares says he was employed b a mercantile house and that the man
 agement sent him to South Americ
 to represent them.
 l He drifted north into Mexico an spent some months in that country
 What he did he does not say and wha mercantile house sent him-a youtl of "A years to represent their interest
 on this continent he refuses to divulge Last fall he came, he asserts, to tn
 United States leaving a brother i
 Mexico engaged in business for him
 self
 Where were you when the Blac
 Tom Island explosion took place" de 1 manded Capt. Cronan.
 1 ''I didn't go to work on Black Tor
 Island, until two months after the ex
 plosion,'' blurted out the defendant. | Realizing that no one had aske him if he had worked on the islan I Manzamares then maintained a sulle silence for some minutes.