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Show ;i ROBERT FAY TO PLEAD GUILTY ; lipiL Head of Gang of Bomb Makers Tells Story of His 1 Life to Assistant U. S. ) Attorney Knox. ;J NEW YOKK. Nov. El. Robert l;';v, 1 eli'-ft veJ lieutenant in the German 1 flrmy, jjn'1, hv his own confession, hc'id ! of n. K?iuy of' bonili makers that sought lo diM'c or rlcj-truy mnniHon-ladon 1 hins sailing iVcn New York to tho en-! en-! tenV nllin'toM tlin story of his life to-c.hiv to-c.hiv 1o Assistant Vuitai Slates District ' . Ar'tornev Knox. Fay lalkerl freely, j'nl-lv j'nl-lv and ol' his own volition for five hours without, interruption. What bo paid was not, made, jmlilie, but at the conclusion ; ' of the session Mr. Knox announced that f, nil Fav wanted lo do now was to plead . uiiilty' to the govern men t 's charges aga.iust liitn and ro to jsnl. FT. J. 'McDonald, a lawyer pppoint.ed hv the court, to represent Fay, sought to tee his client in .Mr. Knox's office, but failing, served on Mr. Knox notice of I his intention to demur to the indictment. Fay read the demurrer while the lawyer '. wailed outside and, according to Mr. Knox, flflir he did not wish to demur to i the indictment or to do anything else hut plead guilty and start, at once to serve his sentence. Confession Voluntary. Fay's Jong talk with Mr. Knox was :: made upon bis own solicitation and with-! with-! on f. promise of immunity or leniency. : The statement, which the prisoner dic- I to ted, carried him bank to Germany, almost al-most to the date of his birth, covered the high lights of his service in the German army, told in detail of his al- 'i Ipged mission to America and recited 'i his movements and activities hero. Whether it was true in its essentials, ;l .Pistrict Attorney Marshall said after- : ward, had yet to be determined, but in I some Tespects it was verified .by in for- I I matiou which the government had colli col-li lecied from other sources. ' "There is no doubt," Mr. Marshall l said, ;ithnt his name is really Fay and '! that he served in the German army. As !j to the rest, we do not know. His state- I ment differs somewhat from his pre- ' vious story, but admits his guilt of the charges against him.'' 1 Leads to Common Source. h What Fay told Mr. Knox today leadb back to a source to which already has (i been traced anothor case under inves-, inves-, f ligation hv tho government, according to Ttoger B. Wood, an assistant in Mr, ! Marshall's office. Mr. Wood has pre-J pre-J i pared most of the cases in tho passport J j frauds, and also prepared the govern-'l'. govern-'l'. . merit's chsp against Karl Buenz and ! i other officials of the .Hamburg-American line, indicted on a charge of con-,j con-,j 'i spiracy and to be placed on trial this ii ( week. ;! 1 ''Five cases of this sort lead hack to i four sources,"' Mr. Wood said. ''They i' are the Fay case, the Bucna case and the three passport cacs. in none of the cases did the actual defendants know . whut the defendants in the other cases were doing. The four sources, however, I directing these five i-ases are very close ,! together very. It is my. belief that J: these four meirall reported to and took ' their orilers from a fifth man, who was j the director of all the trouble of this j. , sort in the United States." I Could Not Prosecute. "If you could prove this," Mr. Wood was asked, "would you, or could you, ' , prosecute this fifth man?'' "All I can say to that' he replied, "is that under the law we cannot prosecute prose-cute any diplomatic representative of a 1 foreign eouu try. ' : When Fay ended his long talk late today to-day he was taken back to the Tombs to remain there till tomorrow, when he will i be questioned by Mr. Knox. The state- i' ment of today was made without questioning ques-tioning or prompting. It contained many leads, it is said, about, which the government's gov-ernment's lawyers want more information. informa-tion. Roth Mr. Marshall and Mr. Knox de- c.lined to say whether auyofte else were implicated in Fav 'a new statement. Fay has been somewnat of a puzzle to them, but it was intimated that this statement state-ment would not be accepted without full verification. As it stands now, it is said, there will be no ptheT arrests in the alleged plot, at least until Tray's latest confession is corroborated, if then. |
