The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09
A HUN PAPER HERE
New York Daily Said To Be
Owned by Germany.
Editor Is Out on $4,000
Bail.


of justice during personal visits to
Washington led to bail being fixed at
$4,000 instead of $4,000 as origi-
nalIy asked by federal counsel, when
DR.. Rumely was arraigned today be-
fore L. s. Commissioner Hitchcock on
a charge of perjury.
Hearing in the case, involving ale
cations by the government that the
mail is owned by the German imperial
government, was deferred for two
weeks.
Assistant Attorney General Becker
announced that the federal grand jury
subpoenaed were out and that
broader investigation would be started
soon. Accountants were said to be
working on the books of the Mail and
Express Co. with a view to ascertain
ing just how the $1,361,0o0 said to-
have been received by Run1ely from
German sources was expended.
A state official who has been work
ing up the details of the case against
Doctor Rumely, said the latter had es-
capped facing an indictment for treason
by just three days. Doctor Rumely,
it was said, received his last remit
tance from pro-German sources April
3, 1917 and the United States declared
war April 6 of that year Count Won
Bernstorff and DIR. Heinrich F. Albert,
formerly commercial attache of the
German embassy in Washington. We're
said to have been the brains OF the
the United States entered the war. It
was Won Bernstorft's method, accord
ing to the Official to dictate the edi-
torial policy of the Mail and to make
it secretly pro-German. altho appar-
emily strongly American.
Attacked British and Japs.
This was done he. said by means of
pro-Irish and anti british and anti
Japanese fulminatioEs.
When President Wilson addressed
congress preliminary to the declara-
ton of state OF war, the loyal Amerl-
cans associated with Doctor Rumely
were said to have besOught him TO
come out strongly in Endorsement of
the presidents policy. Doctor Rune
ly, it is said, demurred to taking too
positive a stand at once, as he is al
legged TO have said, We have a large
German clientele and We want to edu-
cate them gradually"
Bernstorff Furnished the Money.
A Mitchell Palmer alien propertv
custodian, declares Poctor Rune
told him the money with which the
Mail was purchased before this coun-
try entered the war was obtained from
Hermann Sielcken, a naturalized Ger
man. TIE government alleges the
money was obtained from Count Won
Bernstorff, the former German ambas-
sador, thru DR.. Heinrich HIbert. for
mer German "paymsater" in the
United States, and other agents. In
Guiding the purchase price and subse-
quent upkeep, Germany is alleged to
have invested 1861, coo in the news
paper, government agents claim.
great part of this money, accord
ing to investigators, came from the
sale in this country of German war
bonds.
The alien property custodian has not
made it clear whether the newspaper
property will be taken over. Henry L.
Stoddard, from whom the paper was
purchased by Rumely, still holds a
bond interest of 100000 in the prop
erty. He said the bondholders would
take charge of it and continue to oper-
ate it.
Rumely is an American born in La
porte. Ind. He was educated IN the
United States. but received his degree
of NJ. D. at Heidelberg university, Ger.
many. He is So.
Purchased in June, 1918.
THE documents in the case" State
Attorney General NJ. E. Lewis stated,
indicate that Rumely purchased the
stock of the Mail and Express COM
pany from Henry L. Stoddard in June.
1913, the money paid to Rumely be-
ing drawn from deposits of the Ger
man governn ent at various banks in
the city &C New York, these accounts
standing in the name of Bernstorff,
the former ambassador of Germany at
bert, who was known, L believe. as
the commercial attache of the en-
bassy. The money was drawn from
the joint accounts of Bernstorff and
Albert.
How the Deal Was Concealed.
1.-THE transfers of the money were
concealed in the following manner:
Doctor Albert procured various
banks where the German government
had account sin his own and Bern
storff's name to issue cashiers checks
to the order of ne Walter Lyon, a
member of the former Wall street
firm of Renskorf, Lyon & Co. This
firm in turn paid the money back to
Lyon, who then transferred it to
Rumely. We have the checks which
figured in these various transfers"
DR.. Edward Aloysius RumeIy was a
former educator before he purchases
the Mail. As a manufacturer he did
much to develop the mechanical trac-
tor as a substitute for horsepower in
blowing"
Doctor Rumely was born irf-Laporte,
Ind, thirty-six years ago, and was edu-
Gated at Notre Dame university. He
went to Germany to study at HeideI-
Freiburg gave him the degree of doc
tor of medicine. He has written sew
eral books on education, among them
ITO Teach Boys to Live"
Win w. L. Ellis ne is the author of
Power and Plow." He has been a
member of the National Association
for the Promotion of Industrial Train
ing and member of the American AS
ISOLATION of Agricultural Engineers
Henry L. Stoddard, president of the
MAN ana Express company, announced
that the bondhoIders would take
charge of the paper today.
Other Matters Involved.
United States District Attorney Har-
per asserted in court today that gov
eminent evidence would show Rune
ly not only received money from Ger
many for the Mail but for other pur-
poses also.
The preliminary hearing will be
July %
Doctor Rumely held hasty con-
sultation with his attorney, Frederick