The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-04
ALLEGED SPY HELD
ON MURDER CHARGE
Frederick Fredericks Rear
rested Here at Instance Of
British Officials.
PLAN TO EXTRADITE HIM
Defendant Accused Of Placing
Bombs on Ship, Which
Killed Three Men.

Frederick Fredericis. alias Capt.
Fritz Joubert Duquesne. alleged Ger
man secret agent, was rearrested yes
terday on an extradition warrant
charging murder. issued by United
States Commissioner Samuel NJ. Hitch
cock at the instance Of c. Give Bay
ley, Consul General for Great Britain
upon his release on suspended aentence
by Judge Joseph Mulqueen in General
Sessions yesterday afternoon.
Fredericks was taken before the
Commissioner by Deputy United States
Marshal James Dempsey and capt.
Busby Of the Military Intelligence
Branch, and arraigned on the extradi-
ton warrant. He was held without
ball for examination on December 20.
His counsel. Attorney Fred Ware, Will
renew the fight he has been making
for the last year to have Frederlcks
pronounced insane by the courts.
Indicted on Fraud Charge.
The defendant WIS indicted nearly a
fraudulent claim for fire insurance
amounting to 100000 against the Stuy-
vesant Insurance Company OF this
city to cover q number OF cases which
he alleged contained motion picture
Aims and which were destroyed When
a Brooklyn storage warehouse was
burned. While held on this charge the
British Government made requisiuon
for him to answer to a charge OF muir
der on the high seas.
1t Is alleged by the British authori-
ties that Fredericks, while working
under instructions of the German Gov
eminent, placed packing cases alleged
70 contain samples Of minerals on the
steamship Tennyson, which sailed from
Bahia Brazil about February IA 1916.
Explosives concealed in the packages
we're timed to go of while the boat
was at sea, 1t is alleged, for the pur-
pose OF destroying the ship. An eX-
plosion took place and caused the
death OF three men, among them NJ. j.
Reid, a boatswain, with whose murder
Fredericks Is now specifically charged.
Recently Pronounced Sane.
Practically since the date OF his ar
rest F'redericks has been fighting 10
keep out of the hands OF the British
authorities, who intend - eHtrad!te
him and place him on trial IN England
for the alleged offence. Some time ago
application was formally made for the
man by representatives of the BritlS
Government In this city, but action
was withheld while the prisoner was
under observation in the Mattaewan
state Hospital for the Insane. He>was
recently pronounced sane and returned
to the Tombs.
In court yesterday. when Fredericks
appeared for sentence on the charge
of attempted fraud, Alexander l.
Rorke, Assistant District Attorney,
went into the case and Judge Mui-
queen suspended sentence on that In
d.ctment. 1t was understood, however,
that in the event OF the eNtrauition
request being denied or II the man is
acquitted in the British courts he is
to be returned to New York and the
case finally disposed OF.
Fredericks claims to be a solder OF
fortune and to have served under
Gems. Jourvrt, DE Wet ana Botha as
a captain of engineers in the Boer
army Letters indicating that he was
z German spy were found among his
papers at the time OF his arrest. He
had just returned from an extensive
trip to South America.