Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-13

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returned to the United States on June.
80 and registered at the Hotel Navar
RI. Seventh avenue and Thirty ser
enth street. a. RI i Young. The next
dag he met O'Leary. who took him to.
an apartment on the upper west side.
where Robinson remain until July Il.
when OIeary took him ID an automo
bic to the Long Beach hotel. where
Robinson delivered Richards mes
sage 10 the Baroness
I'M the meantime, Rodiger had re-
ceiyed Sil 900 from Fricke. the NAT
uralized American head OF the Wash
ington street roy importing hrm. That
money was for the purpose Of carry
ing out bomb plots on steamships
leaving the United States for Europe
and on piers and Ill storage houses
Throughout the country containing
munitions and foodstuns for the.
American army
She spends $4,000.
The $4,000 with which Richard.
had provided the baroness on her
departure from Germany for this coua
try had been spent, as well as an ad-.
sditional so, 900 which she had man
aged To obtain from German financial
agents til this country The baroness
was lii, financial straits because Rich
ards MAS not able To keep up 4 steady
stream Of money with which she
might finance the Irish and anti Brit {.
ish propaganda scheme and her spy
work. She had to call on Ryan 70 ad
vance her $500, which was 10 be
paid as soon AIS she had heard from
Richards
Ryan then arranged through Hurley
TO send an freshman. knoNa only g.
government agents as Jerry as q
secret messenger 10 Richards, whom
the man met In Rotterdam several
weeks later
Jerry was d seaman on board a
neutral vessel which left this port in
the latter part Of December 1917 He.
received secret messages from the
baroness, RodigeT and Ryan, upon the
delivery III which Richards was to-
turn over to him $4,000 for the Baro-
ness
The silence of Jerry. Ryans mes
senger to Richards IN Rotterdam,
began to worry the Baroness and
Rodiger, however and great was the
woman's surprise on the afternoon Of
April "a, 1918, when agents Of the de-
partment of justice arrested her al
the Long Beach hostelry
Seven days later HSkger was ar
rested Az The same Tine O'Leary,
Fricke, Emf Ripper and Robinson
were arrested Indictments for viola
ton Of the espionage law and con
spiraey TO commit treason were re-
turned against them and me Baro-
ness and Ryan. Who. III the meantime
had He'd and have not been recap
tured.
Government agents learned after
the arrest Of the Baroness that
Jerry. Ryan's messenger. had re-
turned from Rotterdam with the $40
900 which Richards had given him
and had turned the money over to
Ryan II is alleged By government
agents who worked TIP the case
against the leaders OF the German spy
and bomb plots here that Ryan used
that money III effecting IFS escape into
Mexico, from which country Il is be-
iieved he was taken BY submarine to-
Germany
Within the last few weeks indiet-
ments have been returned by the fed
eral grand jury III this district against
Rodiger Fricke. Ryan and Robinson
charging them with treason in con-
nection with German spy and bomb
plots here
The identity of Frank Richards is
admitted ii the indictments to be
mystery to the United States govern
ment officials