St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-06-23
SUSPECTS ARE
ARRESTED AT
MADISONVILLE
SHIPYARDS
Marshal Valleys Suspic-
ions Aroused By
Mems Action.
BOMBS FOUND IN
THEIR ROOM IN N. O.
Sheriff Brewster Informs
Federal Officers and
Turns Men Over

Eugene Watley, marshal OF Madi-
sonville, made an important arrest at
Madisonville. Monday. He noticed
two men walking continually up and
down in front of one of the houses
near the shipyards. The women in
the house became frightened. Wat
ley went to the two men and asked
them what they were doing. They
said they were looking for a man
who owed them some money. That
they had come from New Orleans to
collect it. Watley became satisfied
that nothing was wrong and con-
cluded to let them go, when one of
them shook hands with him, at the
Asame time pressing some money into
his pam. Watley then arrested
them and brought them to COvington.
Sheriff Berwster was in New Or
leans, and being phoned in the mat
ter saw Federal officials and related
particulars to them. Officers were
sent to Covington and the two men
were taken to New Orleans. The
following article from the States
gives history of the case there.
When Watley arrested the men
one Of them had revolver. They
claimed to be machinists. One said
he had been an oiler on vessel and
that they had come from Brazil.
The younger one could speak some
English. The other, hardly at all.
The man whom they said owed
them money admitted that this was
30, but stated the sum was but two
dollars, and would not have paid for
their trip from New Orleans. He
said that he and his wife boarded
at the same house in New Orleans,
and that his wife, while helping the
landlady clean up the rooms, found
the bombs concealed there, and that
the men had then gone to another
house and did not return. She fear
ed they had come to Madisonville to
do her injury because Of her ex-
posure OF them.
New Orleans, June 21.--Emil Yer
holen, "a, and Heinrich lahn. %.
Germans, suspected Of bomb-potters,
arrested near the Janncke shipyaras
at Madisonville on Tue esday, and VINO
were brought to the city Wednesday
afternoon by Deputy United States
Marshal D. A. Sanae"s, were being
interrogated by Special Agen: PEN
dleton, of the Department OF Justice,
and United States District Attorney
Montgomery, in Mr.. P3ncleton's of-
flee, in the new pos.otlce building, al
noon Tuesday.
Verholen and jain, in custody of
the deputy United States marshal,
reached New Or. cans or the 30
New Orleans and Nor orshwestcrn tram
Wednesday evening. From the term
inal depot they we're taken TO the
house OF detention. wEe:e they were
held through the night.
Thursday morning they were TAX
en- to the United States marshaFs
Office and later turned over to Mr..
Pendleton. Instructions were given
the marshal that no one was to see
the two men until the Federal au-
thorities had completed their in
quiry.
En- route to New Orleans Wednes-
day afternoon, Verholen is said to
have admitted to Deputy Marshal
Sanders that the bombs found in the
Bourbon street rooming house were
his property; that he took them from
the steamer Mobilia on which, he
said, he worked as sailor.
1t was on Verholen that the load
ed revolver was found when placed
unde rarrest by Sheriff Brewster, OF
st. Tammany parish, at the Jahncke
ship yards, it is alleged.
Jahn, the younger, concurred with
VerhOlen in an informal statement
to the deputy marshal that they had
gone to Madisonville to collect money
they said was owed them by a man
employed there.
When making his declaration OF
intentions to become an American
citizen, Jahn said that he arrived in
this country on September 3, 1916,
and said that he emigr2 ted from
Hamburg, Germany. He said he
served as sailor on a German YES
sci. and being unable to return to
Germany after the outbreak of the
war, went to Brazil and from there
came to America.
& Verholen once esrved in the Ger
man army, he said.
Continued on page 6.)