New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1918, Page 5

[LA[M KAES | these accounts standing in the name | ER WNS of Bernstorff, the former Ambassador 1} 1 of Germany at Washington, and of Dr Heinrich Albert, who was known, 1 be lieve, as the Commerclal Attacha of THF FV I the Embassy. The money was drawn L} V] 4 l from the joint accounts of Bernstorff | Z 5 and Albert. == Bought With German Bonds, 2 Attorney General Lewis in Dr. Edward Rumg[y’ Pflh”Sh&I‘, i Guestion as fo whether the $1,61 L 000 which is involved in the fransa tions was cabled to this country for the punpose r which it was used, plied that it was all money o | ained in this country through the New York, July 2 A lo of Imperial German government | imaly, vice president, s ary and | war honds, The bonds were sold to 1'ublisher of the New York Evening | Ameriizan citizens, in the greal ma. Mail, was arrested late yesterday aft- | jority of instances citlzens of Ger- «inoon by agents of the government, an birth and extraction. One of (hurged with perjury. The charge | the men who is said to have had a w out of a statement filed with A. | part In the sale of the hond: hell Palmer. the Alien Property id, was Rudolph Hecht, the in which Rumely asserted | man banker 4 friend of the X 5 that the Evening Mail wa& an Amer- { who is now interned as a dangerous itan-owned newspaper. The Govern- | cnemy allen at Fort Oglethorpe, ent fa in pos siort of evidence | Iy other words,” added the which, it is held, shows that instead | {orney Cieneral, “persons who being owned by Americang, the pa- | citizens of the United States provided per is in fact owned by the Imperial | ¢he monecy through the purchase of German Government, which on July | these bonds, which made possible the 1. 1815, paid to Rumely, throush | asquirement of The Mail for propa \valter Lyon, of the former Wall| onngs purposes by the Gepmans Street house of Renskorf, Lyons & | gome of this money, I may add, found . the sum of $735,000, which trans- e way througn G. Amsinck & Co. the control of the newspaper | .. f.m which figured in the huge et payments which were made to Bolo rely was brought to the of- | pygh, hy Bernstorff, of which firm orney General Merton .1 oynn Pavenstedt, now intefned, was | 51 Chambers Streel. 131€ | then the hiead. This firm has sinco auestionsd by Atterney General Lew. | Daen reorsanized. “Will Mr, Palmer, the Alian pro deputy Attorney Ge 1 Alfred L. & o S ru =t neriyl cuRtodian, Pacize T hel i venins rict Attorney Harold Harper, the | Mail?" Attorney General Lewis was \amed representing the Federal ; asked 1 ariment of Justice Followin “1 cannot answer that question. '‘As {nm sunouncement of Mr. Rumely’s | Yot there has been no formal seizure, arrect the Attorney General said that | MT. Ls replied the investigation, which had culmin- Deputy Attorney General Becker was ated so sensationally just hefore dusk | called upon by Attorney General Lewis esterd: ad been under way for | at this point and to answer further veral months, the Federal and State | AUue ions. uthorities working hand in hand “Will further arrests he made 1in nd with the co-operation of this case? Mr. Becker was asked. \fitchell Palmer, the Alien Property “I cannot say that further arrests Custodian. will be made,” he replied Bonds Fixed At $100,000, “Has Dr. Rumley been in com- s e | munication with the owners of The TR e O o b tha | Mall since Consress declared war in papers in ilie case belng eigned by | ABH Of last year 3 United States Commissioner Hitch- Do syou ‘referiito sthel kateer inhen was sworn to by Deputy Attor- | YOU Say owners? [ have no statement 2 General Becker. No bail was | {0 make as regards that at this tim fixed at the time of the commitment, | Was Mr. Becker's answer bt late lnct night It was announced | Assistant United States District At- AEatLD had bean fixed in the sum | torney Harper, who has assisted in of $100,000 and that friends of the gecused publisher were trying to get ! bondemen In many respects the financial | the investigaion as the representative of Attorney General Gregory., an- swered the next question, which was fant| What was the editorial policy of tures of the transactions which the { The Mail which the Germans mapped Government charges transferred the | out after securing control?” gontrol of the Evening Mail from “The investigation indicate re American to (ierman interests | wlied Mr. Harper, “that they favored asimilar to the plan followed by not #0o much a pro-German but an storff, Adolph Pavenstedt, and anti-British policy. T think the files hmidt in transferring the huge | of the paper subsequent to the pas which was paid to Bolo Pasha, sing of ownership will indicate this to sxecuted Vrench traitor, to debauch | be the casc. This policy covered French public opinion in favor of a | period between June, 1915, and S Chr ey s Wt By 302 e mitr e B e e T, .4,,',{.;«.1, e frerman-made peace. 1In the o of | 3, 1917, After that we got into the Bolo, the funds, which totaled about | war and its tone changed.” £1,700,000, passed through a number | St e 3f banks hefore they reached Bolo. | TORPEDOED AT SEA, In this case. aceording to the Gov Eoani srnment azents. there were also sev- | (harles Stone Txperiences Shipwreck sral transfers. Dr. Heinrich Albert, | on Scventh Trip Acroce. e form erman paymaster in this Charles P. Stone of 23 Jndd ave. fountry, drawing the money out of . son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. in the form of cashiers' chec | as A member of the crew of | phich went to Walter Lyon, who, i turn, indorsed them 1o the firm Rensckorf, Lyen & Co. Renskorf. Lvon & Co.. it is alleged. subzequenth £ai@ the purchase amount in a singi shack to Lyon, who then, it is cha td Rumel For this trans: fo the Government comm Germans Fut Up Money The banks which ured in the or izinal transactions which involved the rst parment of the purct price o 000 were the Kquitable Trust Cempany, the Manhattan Company the Columbia Truet Company, and the armers' Loan and Trust Company But the §750.000 payment was onl about one-half of the financial outlay ended by the Germans in their sfforts to have their own public opin- ion-making New York daily. After The Evening Mail had passed into control, the Attorney Gen- night, it =oon began to h its change from pro- to pro-German sentiment its eription 1is began to dwind ts income from other sounces @an to decline. The result was thaf SEAMAN CHARLES §TOND seginning in January, 1916, and up to | ———— : he time that Bernstorff was dismissed | the 1. S. & Covington, formerly the trom the United States. The Bvening | German liner Cincinnati, that <was | Arail, according to an additional $626,- | torpedoed and sunk on July 1 while 200, or a total, including the punchase | yeturning to this country after having price, of §1,361,000. landed several regiments of American In announcing the arrest of Mr. ! soldiers abroad Rumely, and subsequently, in making Stone is in the regular navy and sublic come of the details of the in- | enlisted as a seaman more than | ‘ernational transaction, Attorney Gen- | year ago. He is 20 ve of age sra] Lewis, referring to the total sum | Previous to being shipwrecked, the Jf $1,261,000, added he comment that | local boy had made six tri across this amount represent the total [ the ocean with convo; % the . moness pald so far as has been traced | Covington went down the o 7 : T = ay the Federal and State officlals up to | crew and officers, with the exception ISR ONG CONMISSION WERICAN AIRMEN K BOSTON 18 PROTECTED. he present time.” of men in the engine room, were The documents in the case,” added | saved and the local boy was one he Attorney General, “indicate that | of the survivors. pute Oveyr Property Sale times of German Aerial Activity Public Gardens Rumely purchased the stock of the e L e e N i e, : Main and Express Co., from Henry | MERCHANT ENLISTS, against Henjamin Solor 50 I0 ( ; o iliod Shtais | .. Soddard in June, 1915, the money | i i e T ot 5 , £ e demander said to r(‘nlm\; being drawn from de- | Ommer of Fair 25 Cent Store Joins | real estate. Attorn a08its of the German government at | st TEpresertitne il R p : et T h o | muel M. Davidson of this cit Pandant 3 2 a : % s S e | Hn‘ 4 1d ‘“‘ JAsiacessa - the PASTEURIZED has enlicted in the U. & ordnance| Levine claim - : el £ LU oY he|ritieas (e i & iloin: 5oy MILK ! department, and expects to leave to- | Postmaster Willi 1 1ney’s p % T 1o 1 s ( warrante he will represented to P 1 tts V¢ ¢ Y : ion his approval of | = where take up his duties in had the right to s the central ordnance offices ] ‘ ) to . ¢ tch A-way Mr. Davidson is a member of tho | that Solomon had that tha 6 trc G - f S. M. Davidson and campany, | (Tvine) had uo i it to ] i VOB INTER o : the Fair 25-cent store on | sell the prop i f clai EAVOL N ION B < 3 % o v STEURIZ by our We know af 5o safferer from Ecvema Main During his bsence from | he had ’ ta i YR T, b e e, ot be cured by it 5 2 > s wh s offered whe over woed the siniple wash D. D, D. business, his sister, Mrs. A. J. Leven- | the property BOLDIETY IDE. R S = Catarrh Ci ) Pt PASTEUR and did wot feel immedinteiy that won- ‘ thal, will act a executive hoad of the | e Cory 1 \ ¢ ] op et aiansa : suffere MILK dartully ealm, cool sensation that comes concern. Her husband, A. J. Leven- | B - 2 3 I 1 \ i Al car when the itch is txken away. Thissooth- thal, was in partnership with Mr. | RS0 U SN Ly e 3 . 2 f o : 2 y}‘p'l;',j{-"fi' i\(; Ing wash pemeirates the pores, gives in- Davidson until he left the city about| The burglar alar aohediie e | ¥ ttee of the Ar € he B! he 1 f x- |t S he finest raw milk *ant relisf from the most dlstremsing nine months ago, for Cemp Devens. | Vaults at the N : : P ¥y \pen i€ CH olson he ! S TELY SAFE and PUR firtn Kineases. 352, 200 and $1.00. | The business is in the process of re- | Pank and wconnected at police head f < i ¢ T d . 2 i rrect pasteurizin id 1 > taken Hall’s C 2 ; organization in order that it may be | quarters sounded at police ! L e } Sanelied A ] PURE cTOU conducted while the owner is in the | headquarters last and Police ¥ ¢ . o e S the 3 | D v et e e ervice. Mr. Davidson is a member | man Hellberg and Patr e : e - | ety > A E ats FAer 1 todad 4 ® ® @ ot the Chamber of Commerce and is | Cabellus rus ) the K t A | vinced t i Jurel s LR E pt’ active in the affairs of the merchar d that porters ci ; 1 ? : S o destimoniule ¥ i IRERT he merchan- | found the il ) Rk for ; ™7 3 - f | Koo IELAE] 1 Cluwk & Brainerd Co., Druggists. ! tle bureau cidently set off the 3 t | | t resi ith ¥ sent ) i B by 1 Drugglsts, 7ic. 101 PARK STREET, Real Fstate Salesmen Involved in Dis. Chicago and Worcesier Yyiator Anti-Aircraft Guns to Be Located in