New-York tribune., 1918-03-28
u. S. Agents Find Powe,6,,
Poison in Effects Of
Prisoner
Penalty Decreed for
Betraying Society
German Embassy in Mexico
Financed Suspects Trim.
Inquiry Reveals

Traitors and informers will sus., .
quick, horrible death by poison f,b.s
betray the secrets of the Abbir.rs
Pharet, Hun-Hindu society orgspi,s1
to work for the freedom of Ind;a
cording to information received ve,.a,
day by Federal officials who are invo,
tlgating the attempt to launch ,hs
project from this country.
Deadly poison was found among the
effects of Hindu suspect who has 70
Gently arrived in this CITY from Nav
ico. The poison was in small vials 81
that it could be easily carried in tr,e
Indian fashion for use against ene,r,o.
of the cult. Federal agents said ves.
terday the drug was so powerful that
one drop in glass of wine taken b,
an enemy of the cult would cause in.
slant death.
According to the information of the
Federal agents, the Hindu now under
arrest came here from Mexico City to
'polson two persons suspected of be.
( traying the organization 70 the United
States government. His trip here was
financed by German Embassy officials
IN Mexico who have supplied the money
for the formation of the society,
Among the agents who have been work
ing ontthe case the Hindu is referred
to as "the Cobra" which seems j., Iiea.
OF the revelations to be appropriate.
Members of the secret society are re-
quired to take a solemn oath to wage
bloody and relentless war on Eng
land, and not to reveal the secrets Of
the society under penalty of DEATH
Among the effects of the suspect was
found copy Of this oath. In part It
read:
II shall from this moment do every
thing in my power to fight for indie.
pendence and place the Lotus Grown
of Swaeaj on the head of my mother
"And with this object, ]. join the
A5hinava Pharet, the revolutionary so.
ciety of all Hindustan, and sweaS that
shall ever be true and faithful to my
solemn oath, and that shall ever obey
the orders of this body. M
"If | betray the whole or any part
of this solemn oath, or if | betray this
DOuy VI any DOIN w VI ming 1OI Dim
liar object, may l be doomed to she
death of perjurer."
Following the exami ion of the
suspects effects, general 'ound-up
of the Hindu plotters il +h'~ untry
will be started. Some IA. band
have already been indici ne Fed
cral District Cou't in So ancsco
Agnes Smedlcy, alias = ndin, who
was taken into custod, week ago,
with Sailendra Nath G se. Hindu,
was indicted yesterday by the Federal
Grand Jury for violation of the espon-
age act She was charged with being
responsible for the publication Of
book entitled The Isolation Of Japan
in World Politics." by an Asian states
man. This book was inspired BY Ger
mans.
One chapter of the book advocated
the raising of the size Of the japanese
navy to the combined strength of the
British and American navics, which
the book points out would assure
Japan's supremacy in the Pacific
Chose is being held as fugitive
from justice from California, and pro
ceedings have already been started ior
his removal to that state for trial- MS
activities in this city. however, are
being investigated. Both he and the
Smedley woman are in the Tombs IN
dafoD1+ of hail