A SPY'S CONFESSIONS

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 155, 3 July 1916, Page 6

A SPY'S CONFESSIONS

•YON PAPHN'S FRAUD AND' CHIME.

THE PIIOJBCTED im^ASION OF

CANADA.

The British Government recently published iho confession of the German spy Horst yon tier Goltz, who .came to Eugktnd as Bridgeman Tlay.lor,''.was caught by the -police, and. to save his sirin, confessed his share .in the plots of Captain yon Papen, the German, attache, to instigate outrages in America and panada. Papeh was expelled from America!, but .papex"s found on him at Falmouth proved) his complicity. They includ-, ■ied it: counterfoil of a cheque x>^id to. the spy. After the failure of the iplot, tiho spy ■camo to England from Holland on.'Nbyembea* 4, 1914. Ho Jaad a passport; ''faked" by tte'Gormflii Consul named ■Lnderitz at Balti-. more in ;tlio numo otV.B. H. Taylor. He offered information upon project--ed air. raids, tlic • soxiro& whero the Emden tkrived her information ar; to British 'shipping1, and how .-the Xeipssig .was obtaining her cosil supplies. -Ho offered'to.-go back to Germany to obtain the information,'- ana :all lie asked for in the-first instancewas h^s travelling cixponses. Ho'-was Measily found out, and ? confronted with proof of his identity, ho wrote' his confession ia. Brixt-bn Prison. AiMBXTCAN "BH3GADIER.''.; Tlio evo of war, ho wrote, found lihim iii Mexico-."with a brigade." The •German Consul tpld him that Yon Papen-.wanted/ him ht'New York, Kraske, th& German Vice-Consul, iihen .arranged a meeting. :i "I had," Iho \vi-ote ' 'sotrra conrersation with 'Oaptaia yon Fapen about recent events in. Mexico, and afterwards was asked io give -ray. opinion about a proposal niade to the German Emibas&y, the writer. ; of which, a. certain \Schujnachor, asked for financial support in order to carry', out* a sdheme by which, he wrote, hei'would /he i>l>lo to make raids on towns- situated on the coast of the Great Lakcf;; He proposed to use motor-boats'., armed with machine-guns. \ i . •.:'/'.. "The i>roposal being rejected, oh raccount of iho Embassy receiving unf, favGiable inforriiatioii; about the writer, I was .at ''first.'. requested to tgive my assistance to a schemeof invasion intcndecl to be put in execution /.■by, entering Canada with a v meal

forces recruited from the reservists in the .United Stated: of Amßrioa and aided by German warships that time in the Pacific. Tne scheme which, was proposed by Captain yon Fapen and 33pyed, was abandoned, objections having been made by Count Bernstorff.; I was told so by Captain yon Papen. Then Captain yon Papen asked me to see at may hotel two Irishmen, prominent members of Jrisli associations, who had both fought during the Irish rebellion, who had. proposed to Captain yon Papon to blow up the locks of the canals connecting the Great Lakes, the main railway junctions and grain elevators. It w,as alleged that by those,means, as well as by wholesale distribution of. proclamations intended to terrify the populace, combined with rumors of. wyasibn judicious!;' circulated m the press, a panic would be created m Canada, which wouid prevent the Dominion from giving -any aid to England." ■' ■ : ;4. CONSUL'S FRAUD. I

,He met the Irishman : who sup-.,----plied details and maps, engaged :t" man. Tucker, or Tucsiheimer,; ans\ went to I/udcritz, the Baltimore Consul, who after ■-' 'faking the passport, upparontly on Bapen's instructions, deceiving . the .iTnitotl States authorities at Washington, "proposed to me to make use" cf part >of the crew and one officer: of a G .s'liip a.t that time hi the harbor, and furnished! mie with --'his visit cai'd; , at, the back of which' he wrote recommending Major yon -der Goltz, or.something to that effect, which I should, give to tlie .captain. of the dhi]). •While X was. still■ conversing with Mr Luderitz the captain of the ship was ■aiir.our.ced. by a clerk, : and Mr Luderita, telling, the i clerk to bring ; tiho gentleman, in, introduced me to, tire captain perse nally. ' One- of the clefks, a! notary, made out ■■ an apph- ; catioh to the State Dei>artment, Wi-sliington,\ D.C.,' .ior a-< passport purporting to be ■'•desired by a, certain B. H/ Taylor. / *'..//-./ / \ ' 'All the information in this pass^

port was fictitious. It was. arranged that this passport'was to hv s<ir't 10 l\ir Buck New Yoi'k, who was io delhcr it to me. The following

day, a Sunday, I -paid,, accompanied by Tuckor, a visit to tho ship, dined thpre, find solccted tho men intended 10 UB used in the enterprise porson'ally. Thu men were acqujiuted with the duties demanded frooi them. 1 also listened for tome time to wireless* news received on board, road to mo by the operator, tho captain informing me that he had been forbidden by the- harbor authorities to use his apparatus for .sending purposes. As I ,noodert. iiioney to furnish the sail&vs with necessaries, Captain yon Papon gavo me a cheque payable- to Bridgcmaii Taylor, which cheque T had cashed through Lhe agency of an acquaintance, Mr StaHford. member of tlis German Club. Tho n.on arrived, were quartered in, several hotels, hnv 011 my noticing that my movements were being watched, 1 sen I. them back to malro tiho detectives think the enterprise abandoned. DYNAMITF- AND PISTOLS. "I tolrl Cuptain yon Papon it would be wore easy for him to supply mo with materials, dynamite, and arms cheaply, on account of his connoctions, mtorming. him that'l could not get those «iateriu!s except at a nrohibitive price. Yon Papoii then Informed me that Captain ; Tauscher, o L" Krupp s Agency, had agreed to' furnifch. mo with those things, and told ~mo to see him sit his office. I «»w Tauscher, and he gave me -a letter of introduction to the Dupont Powder Company, recommending B. 11. Taylor, and the company supplied mo with an order to tho bargee in charge of the dynamite barges lying on tho New Jersey side, near ihe statue of Liberty. Captain Tauscher told me he would send the automatic pistols by messenger to Hoboken, •New, YorV, to be delivered there to one 'of agents at- a certain restaurant, as lie would be liable to punishment if he delivered them in New York without having soon my permit. Tho 'i masons why T-.tiid not supply to the polke for a permit nYo obvious. "In order to get the dynamite it was necdssaiy for me to hire a motoi-bo-it at a place near 14(> Street, Harlem, and to put the dynamite on board the barge in suit-cases. After returning to the station, where I had hirett the boat, I vent in a taxi-oab, ,having two suit-cases with me, to the German Club to soo yon Papen, who told rap to call for the generators and . the wire again at tho club. I took the dynamite to ray looms, where I kept also a portion of the arras ; packed in small portmanteaux ready to be removed, the rest of the dynanrte and, amis,'.being in the; keeping of two"u-f my agents, one- of Avhich v/as Mr Fritzen, discharged f frbin, a llnssian steamer ; where he had, aicted iv the capacity of purser; the other one being Mr Busse, a commercial agentj who had lived for some time in England; the only other .agent I employed besides was G. Covani, who attended t<» nic, personally, Tucker • not being entrusted with any of those things. Two or three days after I received from Captain yon -Paipen at his rooms at the club, in>the pi-esence'.-of Fritzen a.nd Covani, generators . and. wire, which I .took to my rooms in a taxi-cab.' '" .>>-..;-;■■. :■•■'• '.''■':, AT, BUFFALO: ; "Arrived at Buffalo; 1 hired rooms at 198~ Delaware Avenue, had the xiynamite, brought there, and j speut same .days.'-trying..-to' get.'infoi'mation •about the • ■precautions: taken by the ; Canadian Government. I received «. telegram sent by yon Papeii and rfgned ■'Steffehs'.,' informing me that , John; Ryan, lawyer, had money and ; instructions. " Having \ meantime' re-. coive<l i«-iva.tely information, that, the "Ist: .Canadian' Contingent Jhad left* 'Valeartier Camp X khevy that I should be recal led, ' the obj e»;t of the ; enterprise being removed.'' The spy ; was then short of money, went back to New York, "discharged Busse and Fritzen, who- went to Buffalo, left dynamite and other materials in the Irceping of an aviatqr who was infitia<s-»r of., the -FeLs Xlosthurant at ■ "Kiagiira Falli>, to be used : :agniu wbeii

jiecmsary, iind left with Covam? for New York by way, of Buffalo. 5' Papen a.fterwards ■ arranged ■with Bernstorff for ihe spy to go to Ger;many, and the statement concludes :•' "I haW Jnad'j thosei statements oni the distiinot understancting tlisit the statemeT»ts 1 have' made, or should make ;iu futurOj-; will ."-.wot be used against mejv that I aim not to te prosecuted for participation in any enterprise directed aigainst .the United Kingdom; or her Alfies I flngaged in fit the direction /of Captain v-oir Papen or obiter repi-e----sentatiyes bf the- Germars Governwient;. and *hat the promise ;nade %o me by-— —> in the preserus® of ——r. t&at I am^ -not to be extradited or sent to: country 'where L; am jiabl© to puarishtrient for political offences is made1 on beh'aiFJi .of'• .his Majesty's Gopeatnment.'' / ■■'■