New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-10-24

Plans Made for Uprising on Next
Easter Sunday

New York, Oct. PA second Sim
Fem rebellion, planned for next
Easter, the anniversary of the Dublin
| riots Of 1916, has been frustrated
through the activities Of the United
States Secret Service. German gold
was to have played a part In the
1918 outbreak, just as it did in that
Of 1916, and the preliminaries which
,, break, were ready to be put into
operation when the American Secret
| Service brought about the arrest OF
,, three men, two Of them Sim Feiners
of note and the other a German sub
! ject who, according to Secret Service
data, was designated by Bernstorff to
look after Germany's Interests in
Ireland" after Bernstorff was ordered
out Of this country by President Will
son.
AS a result of the arrests the United
States government is said to be in
possession of the official Sim Fem re-
port of the 1916 Dublin riots, end
other data which Chief Flynn admit
ted last night would prove Of great
value. He did not indicate the ma
ture of this information.
The fact that another Sim Fein
outbreak had been arranged for and
that several of the instigators were
either on the way, or ready to start
to Ireland, became known late yester-
day afternoon when secret service
agents. acting under the personal di
rection of William J. Flynn, chief of
the service, brought "GeneraI Liam
Mellowes one of the leaders of the
1916 outbreak, and German who
gave his name as Baron Max Won
to the Federal build
ing, and had them listed as federal |
prisoners. At the same time it was |
announced that DR.. Patrick McCar
ton, another of the Sim Feiners who |
figured in the Dublin riots, had been !
taken into custody at Halifax, the |
Canadian officials acting on informa- !
ton telegraphed to them by Chief |
Flynn. Other arrests are to follow.
The only names made public last |
night in connection with the Sim Fein |
plot, Matched in this country, are
those contained in Chief Flynn's state !
ment Other persons are concerned, |
some Of them American citizens of |
Irish origin and few subjects of the
Kaiser. Mellowes and McCarton are
said to have enjoyed the close friend |
ship of several well-known New York |
agitators, among them at least one |
justice of the supreme court. Mel |
loves admitted that this judge was |
one of his intimates. He and Nc |
Carton are known to have seen much |
of number of men who have been |
in recent revelations made |
public by Secretary Lansing and !
other high government officials.
Baron Won Recklinghausen, |
blonde-haired German who has spent |
a great part of his time in recent |
years. in the United States, seemed in
when taken to the federal |
building. The Secret Service agents |
say the Baron was often referred to !
by Sim Feiners in New York as 'the |
envoy" who was left behind by Bern |
storff to represent Berlin in Sim
Fem conferences. Dr. McCarton was
referred to by local Sim Feiners as
the Ambassador of the Irish Repub-
lie to the United States" Mellowes
was dubbed a general"
Mellowes and Won Recklinghausen
were arrested on Monday night and
McCarton was taken into custody at
Halifax on the arrival there of a
steamship on which he, under an as
sumed name and using fraudulent
seaman's passport, had shipped as a
messman. Mellowes also had the as
sumed name Of Donnelly. That pass
port is now in possession Of Assistant
United States District Attorney John
G. Knox.