New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-15
.Jlll1kers Plan
Coup Against
Wil'th Regime

this may dissolve into nothingness, but
for the time being poison gas is being
pumped into the German body polite
in distinctly dangerous quantities. The
continued fall of the mark has aggra- i
waited the economic situation and cx
pccted countrywide labor troubles add
considerably to the general nervous
ness and uncertainty.
The inquiry into the Erzberger
murder this far is declared to have
revealed that Heinrich Schulz and
Heinrich Tillesscn, suspected of being
Erzberger's assassins, left Munich forI
the scene of the murder and returned
to Munich after the crime was commit
ted, where they were given protection
and remained several days. Only after
the Baden police had determined fully
the identity of the assassins, and the
lines of the investigation led toward
Munich, did the men disappear from
their refuge there, an address known
their landlord. A search of the lodg-
ings occupied by the men revealed a
mass of papers and correspondence
connecting the slayers with certain Ma
tionalist circles. This discovery led to
the arrest of about twenty persons, all
of whom were suspected of having had
some connection with the murder and
some of whom are now held as material
witnesses and suspects in the plot.
Linked With Erhardt Brigade
All those held were once members of
the famous Frhardt Brigade to which
Schulz and Tillessen also belonged. 1t
has been learned that Captain Erhardt
maintained until recently headquarters
at Rosenhaim, where he and his fol
lowers displayed considerable activity
II Sc not Iow x,b M,
this activity was directed toward
new revolutionary movement or
whether it was connected with the Err
berger assassination. At any rate, IS
the "Tageblatt" put it this morning,
"the Nationalist assertion that the
bullets which killed Erzberger were
fired, not by Nationalists. but by BOZ
shevists, must be regarded as little
premature"
Seven persons under arrest in Munich
are held on suspicion Of having par
ticipated in the preparations for Err
berger's murder Arrests also have
been made in student circles in Frank
fort. The police are withholding de-
tailed information. but it was learned
to-day that the arrests emphasize fur
Their the existence of a definite plot
which led to Erzoerger's death.
Those imprisoned in Munich are all
oincerS ana tnelf names were gwen 2S
Manfred Won Killinrer, Erhardt Kaut-
ter, Adolf Hoffman,. Herbert Muller,
Fritz Heinrich. Karl Shuder and
Johann Leute. Killinger is accused of
discussing plans for the murder with
Schulz and Tillessen and facilitating
their escape. The others are accused
OF knowing something about the muir
der before it was committed Two
other persons also we're taken into Gus
tody, but they have not yet been ex-
amined
The Socialist and government press
are demanding mercless pursuit of the
investigation, with the object once and
for all of connecting the recent po-
lltical assassinations with the extreme
Nationalists and the crowd about Lu-
dendorff, Helfferich and the Bavarian
reactionaries in order to enable the
government to crush the reactionary
extremists and eliminate them from
German political life.
Developments looked for in the next
few days in the investigations being
pursued by the police in Berlin, Baden,
Wurttemburg and Munich are expected
to have the most important effect on
settlement of the conflict between Ber-
lin and Bavaria and seal Derlin's vic
tory in the struggle with the Bavarian
junkers, behind whom stands former
Grown Prince Rupprecht as their svm
boil and candidate for the Bavarian
throne in the event they decide they
cannot defer separation from the en-
pire