New Britain herald., 1918-07-09
CLAIM KAISER OWNS
 THE EVENING MAIL
Df, Edward RumeIy, Publisher, Arrested by Secret Service Men

New York, July 9.-Edward A. 1fumely. vice president, secretary and publisher of the New York Evening Mail, was arrested late yesterday aft 'raoon by agents of the governm ent, tharged with perjury. The charge -,ev out of 8 statement filed with A. Mitchell Palmer. the Alien Property Custodian. in which Rumely asserted that the Evening Mail was an Amer Ican- owned newspaper. The Govern Tlent is in possession of evidence which, 1t is held, shows that instead of being owned by Americans the pa- per is in fact owned by the Imperial German Government. which on July | 1915, paid to Pumely, through Walter Lyon, of the former Wall Street house of Renskorf. Lyons & Go, the sum of S735, 900, which trans ferred the control of the newspaper to the Kaiser
 MT. Rumely was brought to the of flee of Attorney General Merton F. Lewis, at 51 Chambers Street, late yesterday afternoon. There he was questioned by Attorney General Lew is Deputy Attorney General Alfred L. Becker and by Assistant United States District Attorney Harold Harper, the last named representing the Federal Department of Justice. Following tha announcement of MT Rumely's arrest the Attorney General said that the investigation, which had culmtn- ated so sensationally just before dusk Of yesterday. had been under way for several months, the Federal and State authorities working hand in hand and with the cooperation of A. Mitchell Palmer, the Alien Property Custodian.
 Bonds Fixed At s1oo,oo0.
 The charge upon which Mir, Rune lv was committed to the Tombs, the papers in the case being signed by United States Commissioner Hitch cock, was sworn to by Deputy Attor- nev General Becker. No bail was fixed at the time of the commitment but late last night it was announced that bail had been fixed in the sum of $10o.000 and that friends of the accused publisher were trying to get bondsmen.
 Tn many respects the financial lea lures of the transactions which the Government charges transferred the eontrol of the Evening Mail from American to German interests were similar to the plan followed by Bern stoIff, Adolph Pavenstedt, and Hugo Schmidt in transferring the huge sum which vas paid to Bolo Pasha, the executed French traitor, to debauch French public opinion in favor Of German made peace. In the case Of Bolo the funds, which totaled about s1,70O,o00, passed through a number If banks before they reached Bolo.
 In this case according to the Gov arnn1ent agents, there were also sev~ sral transfers Dr. Heinrich Albert, he former German paymaster in this country, drawing the money out of banks in the form of cashiers checks. which went to Walter Lyon, who, in turn. indorsed them 10 the firm of Penskorf, Lyon & Go. Renskorf Lyon qs Co. it is alleged, subsequently, caid the purchase amount in 4 singi2 .hack to Lyon who then, it is chargeu paid it to Rumely. For this transac- ion, according to the Government, rvo17 received 8 commission of $5,- 0co.
 Germans Put Up Money.
 The banks which figured in the or lytnal transactions which involved the first payment of tine purchase price Of *7S5,oo0 were the Equitable Trust Company, the Manhattan Company, the Coluna bia Trust Company, and the Farmers Loan and Trust Company.
 But the $750, 900 payment was only about one-half of the financial outlay expended by the Germans in their efforts to have their own public opn- ton-raaking New York daily. After The Evening Mail had passed into Runley's control, the Attorney Gen sral aeid last night, it soon began to .oge money. With it's change from pro Ally to pro- German sentiment it's subscription lists began to dwindle And it's income from other sources be gan to decline. The result was that, beginning in January, 1916. and up to he time that Bernstorff was dismissed from the United States, The Evening Mail, according to an additional $626, poo, or a total including the purchase price, Of $1,361,0 900.
 Tn announcing the arrest of MT Rumely, and subsequently, in making 3uhlic some of the details of the in ternational transaction, Attorney Gen. oral Lewis, referring to the total sum of S1,361, ,000, added he comment that this amount represent the total moneys paid so far as has been traced oy the Federal and State officials up to he present time"
 The documents in the case" added The Attorney General indicate that Rumely purchased the stock of the Main and Express Co.,, from Henry L.. Soddard in June, 1915, the money paid to Rumely being drawn from de- oosits of the German government at larioua banks in the City of New York