The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
STAHL, LUSITANIA
PERJURER, SEIZED
Alien Who Served Time, Again
Locked Up by Federal
Agents as Dangerous.
GYROSCOPE SPIES JAILED
Hungarian, Not Cured Of His
Hatred Of U. s. by Prison,
Is Up for Internment.

Gustave StahI. the German reservist
who made an AFFIDAVIT that he saw four
six inch guns In position on the Lusi-
tania before she sailed on her last voy-
age and served eighteen months In the
Atlanta Penitentiary after pleading
guilty to a perjury charge was arrested
again yesterday.
of the Department of Justice who have
been looking for Stahl for a year found
him in an East Twelfth street employ
ment agency. He was taken to the
Enemy Allen Bureau Rufus w Sprague,
Jr., chief OF the bureau, committed
Stahl to the Raymond street Jail in
Brooklyn to be held. Details OF the
charges against stahi were not given
out. He was suspected Of being a
dangerous enemy alien 1t was said.
Stahl was a big figure In the news in
partment Of Justice were put on his trail
after he signed the Lusitania affidavit
| which was presented to the State De-
partment as part Of the German Gov
ernments case in justifying the tor
pedoing OF the English liner Stahl led
the investigators an exciting chase for
several weeks. After his arrest he
pleaded guilty. and the Government $
case against him did not become public.
Never Paid for False Affidavit.
Mr.. Sprague said yesterday that Stahl
put the blame for the Lusitania affidavit
on Paul Koenig. who was chief of the
bureau OF investigation Of the Hamburg
American Line In 1915. Stahl said that
Koenis. using the name OF Stemler. APP
preached him at a Hoboken boarding
house and got him to sign the Lusitania
affidavit.
NJ Gov, o,a ,.stardoy nv p,ipad uaps
| Jacobson and Court Courant, two Ger
| mans charged with having transmitted
| drawings Of the Sperry Gyroscope Com
| pany to Germany through Capt. Franz
Won Papen and a man named Berg or
the HamburgAmerican Line.
Courant worked for the Sperry COM
| pany In It's office at 40 Flatbush ave-
nue.. Brooklyn. He Is alleged to have
| stolen the plans and given them to ia
cobson. who carried them to Won Papen
| at the German Club in Central Park
| South or to Berg.
| Spies for Love of Fatherland.
The men are said to have confessed
| and to have explained that they acted
| through love of their country and not
| for pay. They vigorously asserted that
the transactions ceased when the United
| States became a belligerent.
! jacobson and Courant probably will
be informed for the duration Of the war.
! Lucas Verchovski OF Orangeburg. N
Y. Hungarian. who persisted In
threatening men Of his nationality
who were friendly 10 the United
States after he had served six months
Imprisonment and paid a fine of $50 for
that offence, was recommended for in
| ternment yesterday by Mr. Sprague.
| An investigation was begun yesterday
after the finding of $50 pounds OF dyna-
mite on a farm at Carmel N. Y. near
the Catskill aqueduct. 1t was found by
a trooper OF the State constabulary. L.
| d. Rheinhardt. lessee of the farm, said
he had been In possession Of the farm
only a short time and had no knowledge
| Of the dynamite. The explosive was
| taken TO a licensed magazine.