New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Martens Got
Cars Gems
To Sell Here
Continued from page one)


Continued from page one)
sailor as Santeri Nuorteva, former pri-
vate secretary to Martens, who recent
ly escaped from the United States and
England. The identification, officials
said, was through photograph of
Nuorteva.
A customs guard, dressed as a sailor,
accompanied jacobsen to the West
l29th Street address on July % to de-
liver a dummy package to Mrs. Klein
amen. However, she had removed her
residence, but inquiry developed that
another woman had been delegated to
receive the expected packages from
Jacobsen.
Upon refusal, however, to deliver
the package to any bat the "short,
stout man" who usually received
them in the presence Of jacobsen the
woman agreed to telephone for him.
The telephone number called, accord
ing to the evidence. was identified by
officials as Flatbush number in the
residence occupied by Ludwig c. A. X.
Martens. In response to the call and
in the absence of Nuorteva from the
country, NJ. Saffron, identified as a sec
rotary of Martens, appeared to claim
the package.
Martens's Home Searched
Obtaining search warrant, the
house of Martens was searched, and
among other documents was found a
letter addressed to Esteemed Com
rude Martens" and signed Boris"
The letter, dated June II at Trond-
hjem, Norway, contained this para
graph:
Gle told me he is in the same posi-
t;on that he has no money, but he
has some stones he will endeavor to
send you at the first opportunity.'
The che" to whom Boris referred was
not identified in the letter.
Discovery of what is said by Off
Gals to be Martens's pay roll has been
made by Federal authorities.
The alleged pay roll was found IN
Martenss residence in Brooklyn during
a recent search of the house for evil
dence Of the connection of the Soviet
representative with the Bolshevik traf-
fc in jewels.
The name of j. G. Ohsol, said to
have been former employee OF the
Federal Trade Commission here, was
identified by government officials in
the list of the thirty names on the
supposed payroll. Mr. Ohsol, the Fed
eral Trade Commission said to-day,
formerly was employed by the commits
sion as an examiner, and left the serv-
ice last March II.
Names on Martens's Payroll
Names were listed on the putative
payroll under seven divisions: Diplo-
matte, Soviet Russia, office, commercial,
economic, financial and technical.
Under the division of diplomatic,
officials say they found entries of eX-
penditures as follows:
S. Nuorteva (Martens's secretary
$50; X. Durant, $50; D. Keene, 500;
d. Humphreys, $50.
Under the division of "Soviet Rus
STA" were said to have appeared: j
Hartman, $40; Russian, ,Bey, $50; f.
field, S45; Z. Fox, $50
Under "office," it was said there
appeared: G. Weinstein, $50; r. Trot-
sky, $35; R. Beyers, $50; A. Bushevita,
S25; ~ Saffron, S23 NJ. Woskof, S25
Under Commercial" were listed J. G
Ohsol, SIS; j. Fox, $50; D. Dubrowsky
$50; Z. Tuck, $50; L. Meerovitch $50;
d. Sirkina, $50; A. koleman, S25
Under Economic" there were [. Hour
witch, $l15.38; Z. Yatfe $780, NJ. Model
$35 Under Financial" there was The
single name, L. Huebsch, $45, and under
schosky, $40, and Charles Rccht, $500 {
month.
The sums placed after each name
according to officials represented the
amount paid each week, except that
after the name of Charles Recht, which
was specifically noted as the salary
credited him by month.
Martens Makes Denial
Ludwig c. A. K. Martens, unrecog-
nized Russian Soviet ambassador tc
the United States, yesterday dis
claimed any knowledge of diamonds adj
dressed to him which, it was brought
out at his deportation hearings, hac
been intercepted in New York by Gus
toms authorities.
Shown an Associated Press dispatch
from Washington stating that these
diamonds were believed to have beer
part of the Russian crown jewels, Mar
tens, expressing Indignation at the de
partment, asserted that ali coniscated
Jewels were in the Russian Soviet Ma
tional Treasury.
Charging that the department was
trying TO incriminate him in something
that would tend to create in the unitec
States sentiment unfavorable tC
Soviet Russia, he denied that he had
any roundabout courier system operat-
ing through Sweden, and said that for
the last eighteen months he had been
in direct touch with Russia.
Consi siderable mystery surrounded
seizure of the diamonds here July %
At that time their worth was estimated
at $4,000 by customs officials, who
took them from sailor on the steam
ship Stockholm giving the name OF Ja
cobsen. Jacobsen professed himself ig-
norant of the identity of persons who
had entrusted him with the jewels, and
declared he did not know to whom they
were to be delivered When the seizure
was made no hint was given that they
were addressed to "Comrade Martens
Direct Courier System
Martens to-day Indignantly denied
that they were addressed to him, to be
used here for financing Bolshevik prop
uganda.
For eighteen months I have had my
own direct courier SYSTEM, he SAID
"and would be under no necessity OF
employing roundabout system
through Sweden or any other country
as | have been able to get messages
and dispatches through direct"
After he had denied any knowledge
of the diamonds mentioned IN the
Washington Dispatch Martens was
asked if he knew the present where
al cuts of the Russian crown jewels.
"Yes,' he said "All jewels that have