The sun., 1918-08-04
Another wenk Point.

Mr.. Becker pointed out as a furthe,
weak point In Mr.. Kaufmanns statement
the TACT that he saw .Selcken for the
nrst and only time in Baden Baden In
September, 1916. The first loan al
legged 10 have been made TO Rumely
was one for s75O,0O0 on May 81. 1915,
fourteen months before This provided
the purchase money for the Evening
Mail II WINS advanced in the form OF
a bank cashiers check Issued on the
order Of DR.. Albert
Kaufman had only Alhert's word that
the money came from Sielcken. The
Government maintains that tho money
came from the German Government and
that that Government IL now the real
owner OF the Evening Natl The news
paper Is In the possession Of its bond
holders through the concession Of the
Alien Property Custodian.
Mr.. Becker declared that Kaufman
said that his fee for his services was
$4,000, which was paid by Albert o.
tehsibly for Sielcken. The Deputy At
Of slelcken's fortune consisted Of an in
terest In the firm of Crossman &
s!elcken. valued at $4,000. 900. Consid-
erlng the state Of foreign exchange at
the time, Mr.. Becker said that II would
have been highly w1steful for Sielcken
to send the sums from Germany even IL
they had been at his disposal Further
more he said the bank accounts OF
Won Bernstorff and Albert do not dis
close any sums transmitted to the credit
OF Herman Sielcken.
Interesting Feature.
An interesting feature of the alleged
conspiracy to conceal the ownership of
the Evening MoiI by Germany was the
part played In 1t by Kurt Reisinger. the
26-year-old son of Mrs. Sugo Refsinger
Reisinger had an interest in the Eve
ming Mdil through the purchase of $685.
900 OF second mortgage bonds.
On March 20, 1917. Reisinger received
the following wireless message from
Berlin signed by Sielcken: Il eepfirm
the representations made to you and
want you to protect my interests in New
York. Reisinger under examination,
admitted that he had not previously
communicated with Sielcken. He as
stunned that tho representations to which
Sielcken referred were statements made
by Kaufman when he bought his mort
gage bonds that Sielcken had an inter-
est In the Evening Mail
Resinger admitted that the message
puzzled him because he was not aware OF
any means by which he could protect
Sielcken's interests. He showed the mes
sage to Kaufman, and the latter said
that II confirmed what he had previously
said about Sielcken's interest in the
newspaper. Reisinger said he had not
questioned Kaufmanns word in the mat
ter.
Reisinger told Mr.. Becker that for a
year after leaving Harvard, in 1912. he
was Sieicken's secretary. Mr.. Becker
said that Sielckens partners asserted
Reisinger was an office boy The Deputy
Attorney General said that 1t is prepos-
ferrous to assume that Sielcken. a bust
ness man known for his conservatism,
| should have appointed Re!singer as his
representative here over the heads of his
attorney and his business partners
"Irish Americana" Affairs.
The affairs of the Irish American were
brought into the Evening Mau inquiry
yesterday. Rumely gave Anthony Bro
gan. publisher of this paper $1,000 in
1915. Rumely explained that Brogan
was classmate at Notre Dame Uni
versity.. He said that he had previously
lent Brogan $1,000 for the Irish Amsri.
con, and that the $1,000 was an effort to
keep the paper going and save some part
Of the original loan.
Rumely said he was not sure where
the $1,000 came from. but he may have
gotten 1t from DR.. Fuehr. Fuehr was
one Of the many distributors of German
money under Won Bernstorff
A despatch from Detroit last night
tended to confirm statement made by
George Harvey in last weeks issue OF the
North American Reviews War Weekly
that Rumely, In an effort to avert arrest,
appealed TO Henry Ford. and that the
Detroit manufacturer exerted influence
through a powerful Government official
to ameliorate the accused publishers
situation.
z. c. Liebold. Ford's confidential sec
rotary, admitted In the absence of his
employer that Rumely Consulted Ford
Just prior to his arrest and that Ford
made inquiries in Washington to ascer-
tain what the charges against the pub
| Usher were
Col Harvey charges that Ford's inf,u-
ence was such that promise of fur
Their consideration of the case was given,
a promise that was baked by State At
torney-General Merton E Lewis in caus-
ing the arrest of Rumely, ito the COM
plete surprise Of the Alien Property Gus
| todian."
Col. Harvey makes his allegations the
basis for an attack on President Wilson
because OF the Chief Executives support
Of the candidacy for Senator of the
closest friend" Of the secret paid agent
n the Gerfnap Goyarnrpapt