New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

Hugo Schmidt, Financier of
Spies, Interned With
Rudolph Hecht
Stallforth, Banker,
Also in the Party
They Are Sent to Fort Ogle-
thorpe for Duration
of the War

Hugo Schmidt. American representa-
tive of the Deutsches Bank and alleged
paymastcr of the $5O,O0O,O0O German
corruption fund here, was taken in
charge yesterday by Department of JUS
tice officials and sent, with thirty-five
other prominent enemy aliens, under
heavy guard from Ellis Island to Fort
Oglethorpe, Georgia, for internmcnt for
the duration of the war.
Frederick Stallforth, German bank
or from Parral, Mexico, who is said to
have financed the notorious attempt
Of Germany to array Japan and Mexico
against the United States. was also ar
rested here yesterday and shipped
South. He is a friend of Franz Won
Rintelen and is suspected also of back
ing beth the Cuban revolution and
plans for the invasion of Canada, both
schemes of Teuton propaganda here.
Both Schmidt and Stallforth had pre-
viously been interncd, but both had
Leen released.
Rudolph Hecht in the Party
Others of the party, sent out to re-
lieve congestion on Ellis Island, include
Rudolph Hecht the banker, vice-presi-
dent Of Chandler Co., who was parolled
for three weeks in December after Otto
H. Kahn had vouched for his good con-
duct; Frederick A. Burgomeister,
Ernest Fritz Kuhn, Otto j. Merkel,
George Won Seebeck and William Stein
forth. Here is the record against Amer
ica of these Germans:
Frederick A. Burgomeister-Form
attache of the German Embassay at
Washington, confidential secretary to
DR.. Heinrich Albert. Privy Counsellor
to the embassy, seized in raid on the
Offices of the Hambul g American Line.
at 45 Broadway; convicted of conspiracy
to supply German warshps from this
rort even before our entrance into the
war
Ernest Fritz Kuhn-Cousin of the
wife of Supreme Court Justice Irving
Lehman, who is the daughter of Nathan
Straus; said to be the son of Ger
man official; intimate with Count Won
Bernstorff; employe of the Deutches
Bank; had rented an apartment over
looking the Chelsea piers, at Twenty
second Street and the North River.
Baron George Won Seebeck-Son of
General Baron Won Seebeck, of the Ger
man army; said to have been associated
with Kuhn in enemy activities.
Karl Neumond--Partner in the large
| importing firm of X. & +. Neumond, of
Frankfort, Germany, and this city.
Otto julius Merkel-German literary
propagandist, secretary of the German
University League, furnished "kul-
tural" lectures, articles and other ma
terial to magazines and newspapers
throughout the country.
Won Stengel Also Sent South
Hans Won Stengel-Cartoonis who
came here from Germany shortly after.
the war began, to carry on German
pictorial propaganda.
William einforth-German artil-
leryman, taken prisoner by the French
only to escape and make his way here,
where he became a teacher, using the
identity of Peter Stephenson, a Norwe-
gian.
Twenty -four of the interned men in
yesterdays party came from this city,
the others from Hartford, Providence,
Boston, Rochester and Scranton. They
were brought IN ferry from Ellis ISL
and to the Battery, loaded into three
police patrols and taken to special
train at the Pennsylvania Station, in
charge Of Lieutenant Grant Burns. OF
the 22d Infantry, u. S. A., and a detail
of soldiers.
Arrangements were made for fifty
enemy aliens on the train. The mar
shals of Washington, Baltimore, New
ark and Richmond, Va, were notified
Of the trains schedule, and, at each
place, interned men were put aboard
In the case of Carl Neumond, the
banker and importer, special instruc-
tions were given by the Department of
Justice that he was on the point of
nervous breakdown, and that hand
cutting should be resorted to only as an
emergency.