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Show BRITISH ENVOY IKES DEMAND FODIJ HORN Man Who Attempted to Blow Up Bridge Denies He Set Foot on Canadian Ca-nadian Soil. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. Formal application for the extradition to Canada of Werner Van Horn, charged vith ''attempted destruction destruc-tion of human life," was made at the state department today by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British embassador. em-bassador. VAiXCEBORO, Me.. Feb. 3. Warner Van Horn, who attempted to blow up the railway bridge here yesterday, today appealed ap-pealed to the Gsrman embassador at Washington, Count von Bernstorff. Hs told the latter that he had not been on Canadian soil and asked for protection from extraditiop to Canada. Van Horn gave the press the following copy of a telegram which was dispatched to the German embassy at Washington this afternoon: 'I was arrested here for blowing up Canadian end of bridge at Vanceboro, between be-tween Maine and Canada. I am held here by attorney general of Maine at the request re-quest of Canadian authorities, who are trying to get extradition papers for me from Washington. Please look after my interests in This matter, as I am a German Ger-man subject and did not put foot on Canadian soil. Answer." First Story Different. Van Horn's statement that he had not been on Canadian soil contradicts earlier statements he is alleged to have made to the police. According to the la tier, he not only exploded the dynamite on the Canadian side, but also received the ex- , plosive from a man who met him east of the river. ; F. R. Taylor of St. John, N. B., general solicitor of the Canadian Pacific railway, ! jsaid today that he would send papers to! Ottawa tonight which would be forwarded to Washington in connection witli tle i i Canadian government's application for the extradition of Van Horn. It was said Van Horn had been stopping stop-ping at the Harrietat hotel, Staten island. New York, for some weeks. Temporary repairs to the bridge allowed full trains to cross it today, although the tpeed was limited to six miles an hour. Paid for the Job. In a statement tonight. Van Horn asserted as-serted that arrangements for destruction of the bridge were made in Germany. He said he was paid for the job. but declined to say by whom he was employed. "I really did It for my country,' he said. "We want only to stop traffic of British supplies over that bridge." Van Horn said he intended going bark to New York immediately and had no plans for destruction of other bridges. "It was an act of war," he exclaimed. "I was on neutral soil. What can they do to me?" Deputy Sheriff Ross said tonight that as he was holding Van Horn merely on the i-equest of Attorney General Pattan-gill. Pattan-gill. he felt doubtful about detaining him much longer." fearing for his personal liability In the matter. He said he had l-ecrived no instructions from state or federal fed-eral authorities. Van Horn denied tonight a report from New York that he had claimed to be the son of Count Karl Van Horn, former Bavarian war minister and general in the Bavarian army. |