The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-09

Washington, July 9.-More thar
seven months work, involving ac
tivities of the department OF jus
tice and secret service, as well as
the efforts of New York state
authorities, preceded the arrest Of
DR.. +. A. Rumely, of the New York
Mail Publishing Company.
Assistant Attorney General o.
Bryan said today the inquiry was
far from closed and intimated that
further arrests were to be expected
He would not discuss charges that
might be made in addition to that
OF perjury now pending against Dr.
Rumely.
Mr.. O'Bryan said the department
was entirely satisfied that the Mai
corporation was owned chiefly by
the imperial German government
and that proceedings would folio"
under the federal statutes as. far as
the facts allowed.
American creditors of the Mail
will receive first consideration IN
the administration of the property
by the alien property custodian. At
ter the bondholders are satisfied,
any remaining equity of the imperial
German government in the proper
ty will be taken over, according TO
law.
Plans for maintaining the paper
as a going concern were beng
worked out, when the arrest OF Dr.
Rumely, which alien property OF
ficials say was unexpected by them,
interrupted.
Several attempts are said to have
been made to sell the property since
the United States declared war
against Germany. One of the men
whom it was sought to interest, is
a citizen Of Waco, Texas.
New York, July 9.-Through the
checking OF financial transactions
international in scope, by which 1t
is alleged the New York Evening
Mail became the property OF the
imperial German government, state
and federal authorities caused the
arrest late yesterday of DR.. Edward
A. Rumley. Bail was fixed at S3o,-
600 when Doctor Rumley was ar
raigned today on a perjury charge.
Instead of being American own
ed. as Doctor Rumley who is VICE
president, secretary and publisher
of the Evening Mail, is alleged to
have stated to A. Mitchell Palmer,
alien property custodian. the Mail
in fact, according to Merton +.
Lewis, state attorney general, and
Harold Harper, assistant United
States district attorney, is owned
by the imperial German govern
ment.
The arrest of Doctor Rumley,
which caused a sensation in news
paper circles here, followed several
weeks of investigation covering the
financial transaction for the pur-
chase of the Evening Mail.
The first suspicion that German
money paid for the Mail, it is said,
came through an examination by
federal authorities OF the books OF
Hugo Schmidt, the German fiscal
agent in this country.
The money. amounting to 81 Sol,
600, used in this transaction, which
Attorney General Lewis said has
been carefully traced and checked
ND. was obtained in this country
through the sale of German war
loans.
Henry L. Stoddard, president OF
the Mail and Express Company, an
nounced that the bondholders would
take charge OF the paper.
Arrested After Investigation.
Rumley was arrested here yes
terday after a lengthy investigation
arising out of an examination OF
records seized in this country from
Hugo Schmidt, who was Germany's
fiscal agent in America. Rumley
had sworn TO 4. Mitchell Palmer.
alien property custodian, that the
Mail was American owned, where
as inquiry by federal and state Of
ficials has disclosed, according to
the investigators, that German
money purchased the newspaper
and paid for its publication.
Doctor Rumley. when brought
TO the federal building from the
Tombs prison. objected through his
counsel. Frederick !. Powell, TO
the higher amount of bail asked By
Harold Harper. federal assistant
district attorney.
During the period of investiga-
ton. counsel said. Doctor Rumley
supplied government agents with
all the information in his possession
placing copies of all his papers be-
fore the investigators and other
wise cooperating.
After consultation with Doctor
Rumley's attorney, Attorney Har-