SPY'S NERVE FAILS
(PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP BRITISH
STEAMER
GERMAN AGENT'S STORY.
(Received April 1, 9 a.m.)
LEWES (Delaware), 51st Maroh. Ernest Schiller has confessed that he is a spy for Germany. He acknowledged that he was hired to blow up the Natopho, but asserted that his nerve failed him He controlled the captain and crew with automatic revolvers He stole the ship's papers and money, afterwards rowed ashore to a lonely beach, but the captain signalled the coastguards, who effected his arrest
Schiller refused to give his real name, but admitted that he was sent to England as a German agent to serve on the British training ship Conway, and endeavour to discover naval secrets.
[A message published yesterday stated : Ernest Schiller, a German stowaway, attempted single-handed to capture a British steamer, outward bound with war supplies for Vkdivostock. Schiller locked the captain in his cabin, damaged the wireless apparatus, and searched tho ship's papers.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 78, 1 April 1916, Page 5
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