The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-27
How Guns For
 Sim Fein We're
 Put On Steamer
fContfHued from Page One.) Overt Act Charged.
Ehe overt act charged reads.

II. to wit on the Tth day of April, 1921, at the Southern District of New York and within the Jurisdiction of this court, George Gordon Rorke. the defendant, did purchase from the Auto Ordnance Company of New York, seven machine guns against the peace of the United States and their dignity and contrary to the statutes of the United Staes.
 s'The sources of the deponents in formationsand the grounds of his be- lief are unofficial communications to the United States Attorney from the Attorney General at Washington"
 5Rorke was brought to the Federal Bullding by Agent Anderson of the close to his prisoner until he was arraigned before United States Com missioner Hitchcock and was held in $S,00o bail for a hearing this morn ing, and then he, and the other agents with him, disappeared
 Rerke is about 29 years old He has jet black hair, is smooth shaven and has a long upper lip and other features as strongly Milesian. He was dressed in Wellfitung black suit and was composed in manner. Asked if he cared to say anything for publication, he instantly replied that he was willing to discuss the matter of his arrest. But he shied at the first question, and then asked ito be excused, because he had not had dinner, and would be without the advice of a lawyer until today He 'S3fu that ne was 1ndrT1eO, LHdC ne was an American citizen and that he lived in Washington Asked what his business was, he replied:
 'I am accused of being a buyer of
 Guns for Service Abroad.
 Prosecutor Mattuck said that Reflxe had practically admitted to hln that the guns found on the East Side had been bought for service abroad, and that his acknowledgement Of this was sufficient to show that the charge well founded He also said that Rorfe was a graduate of the George town University, and that it was thought that he was a dealer in arms presence in this city yesterday, it was explained was due to subpoena he has received to testify before ts the tomorrow. The jury is seeking to learn how the riot guns got on board the steamship East Side.
 This vessel is 9Wnsd d by the I. n1nTafa Gn1e9o ed by the Cosmopolitan Steamship 5Iane. She was lying at the Hooo7 ken pier on June 16 when several boarded her and after a search found 495 riot guns in her bunkers- The guns were of the Colt patent and were most dangerous type. Each was Of AK calibre and capable of firing 500 bullets a minute. They were snoI1 I and light and coufo pc HeooAS from the shoulder.
 Besides the 495 guns there were also found parts of 100 more guns All of the guns, it was learned Were Were nanrfactured by the Colt Patent f1re Arms Company under a. special agree Inent The guns were invented by General John Thompson, whose son. hassador Harvey General Thomp- son is the Vice President of the Auto Ordnance Company
 After the discovery the Customs officers seized the guns and whatever ammunition which was scattered 1n the bags holding the guns, ana Iney still hold them. Because Of this the New Jersey police filed many objec- tions and claimed the right to the arms and friction grew which led to the independent inquiry now being made by the Federal Grand Jury In
 Controversy Over the Arms.
 Before the inquiry, which was al once started by the Federal officials from Washington, had proceeded far, Frank Williams a contractor, went kbefore Recorder A T. Carsten of EHoboken and obtained a warrant for t60o-of them and that they were stolen from him on June II. He stated IT his affidavit that he had given the guns to a driver to place in ware houses in HSboken; that the name o1 the driver was Brophy, and that the guns had been secretly slowed away ip the steamship East Side in the dead of night. He placed the value of the guns at $15o,00o-
 During the following days there were many stories of how the guns got on board the steamship. One o1 them was to the effect that they had been placed on a motor boat which carried them to the steamship in the eaarly morning hours and that those in the secret, with the help of 2 friendly crew, placed them In tht b1nkers.
 According to George Bartlett, su. rperintendent of the Cosmopolitan guns on the ship was told by non union man who thought the bag covering the arms contained high 1 eS sdetectve had been sent here to un, cover the whole story of the attempt red shipment ,a11d that representa- lives of labor organizations were in vo4ved.
 The steamship was to clear from zHoboken for Newport News, where she was to be loaded with coal and was then to Journey to an EnglisI port. How the guns were to reacf Ireland was not explained except b. feet that they would be dug out iron under the avalanche of coal some where near the Irish coast and trans ferred to a vessel provided by tn Sim Fein, or that the steamship her self would touch at an Irish DOT either on 1aer journey east or yves and land the arms openly.
 Ships Crew Disappears
 That the crew of the steamship were sufficiently involved in the mat ter ito fear some sort of action agains them was shown by the fact that the disappeared after the arms wer found. Several of the men, who yell ed the Ioudest when the guns disap peared in their alleged journey to warehouse in Hoboken, have bee - looked for by the Federal agent without success. It was said las night that while the government hop ed to arrest at least one. of the thre other defendants today 1t was proble nautical when all of them would b in custody.
 When Prosecutor Mattuck was to1 the story of the guns was still untol he replied that he had made publi all of the information he had, tha the case was being conducted fror Washington, and that it was clear tha the Washington authorities had tn