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Show KOEIIC SI 10 BE WILLING TO TELL OP PLOTS r Chief of German Secret Service Makes Partial Confession After Be ing Arraigned FEDERAL AGENTS AFTER HIGHER UPS Hamburg American Steam ship Company Furnishes Bail for Employee and Two Others By International Newt Se NFW IORK Tec 1 Pa 1 ho a g sbose figure s sa to hil w lie men higher up in th g xa t f spv j lots baa made o e tures to go ernn ent of ficiala look ng towar a onf ft o Th s the star ni, nfo at on that came this e e n f o an ofti al eonrce The informant stale! that the oateu e ble chief of the German bm ret crv ice in New York haa already made a partial eoneaa on to repreaentatn e of the department of inatlce Federal officials in New York re ft ted to diaeun tbe apparent ehanft" of front by Koemg It was deflnitel established however that Koenig aa in telephon e communicat on w th the office of Captain W lliam M Offley Arraigned in Federal Court The n mor of a confession arose an hour after Koemg and two of his al leged agents, Richard Emil Leyendeck ,11 Hfk tjsliyisirt J run, w Mlrai) Jjy Federal Judge Mayer to plead to two indictments returned this afternoon by the grand jar) Two indictment each with five counts were found against Koenig and one indictment against each of the others. Koenig was told that he faces a max unum penalty of th rty years in prison and a fine of $30 000 Th a la said to have caused him to seriously cons der making a, full statement that would do BiOeh toward winning him immu nity The federal authorities believe that Koenig was as mnch a dummy as Ley endecker and Justice Thev are cer tain that he could tear ande the eil of mystery that has surrounded the men who directed b s activ tiea Big Men In olved This inelnles tbe authorities believe I at least two millionaire steamship men several financiers and three or more diplomats h gh in tho ser ce of a foreign power Koenig has given ns some n form a t on that has proven of value sa d a United States official ton ght But he has not revealed a t the of the knowledge that we k orr ia his Koen g an give us legal e den e aga n t the bagn en in the plots lie can reveal tbe nub of fore gn propa ganda here lie can tell us the iden t ties of the men to whom he reported Part cnlarly he s able to tell na to whom he turned o er valuable docu ments jvhich be tool to Washington per od cally The three alleged German agents were indicted today for violat ng see tion 13 of the Un ted States cr m nal cqde by plann ng prepar ng and set t ng on foot a military exped t on aga net the don n on of Panada Indictments Are Broad The nd tments are broader than the or g nal wa rants upon wh ch the men were arrested It s charged that Koen g and Leyendeeker planned not only to destroy the Welland canal bat other works in Canada of m htary lm portance A fine of $3000 and Imprisonment for three ea a s the penalty upon each count Leyende ker ans Justice (who s accused on y of co ect ng Information fo Koen g n Canada) may be given fifteen jears n the federa penitentiary and forced to pay a fine of li 000 each Koen g s ba 1 was con fnued at $60 000 and Levendecker s at $30 000 Jus ce s ba was educed to $20 000 Ba 1 was fu n s ed by the Hamburg Ame an ne J dge Mayer sot January 1 as the da e fo the defendan s to c ange t e r not gu ltv pleas If hey w ah or to make any other mot ons dee red The v. e and cana p o nd c pent ha ges ha he consp ato s n n e o ok ogepoee nm a ong he ou e of e ana v, o n e oe gscpo A teo as fled een oedn cORa n an n on n e Ma Re g d e (Continued ou Fags Two) KQEIM1G SI TO 6E WILLING TP CONFESS (Continued from Fags Ons ) Robert Fa pr Herbert Kiensle Walter Echo z and Paul Daeche on harges of conspl 1ng to blow up munition ships leav ing this cmxntrj today admlttnl through his attorney John B Stanchfleld that he bought 350 pounda of h orate of pot ash for ?a The admles on was made when Mr b an h field mo ed for a sep arate trial fo B cltung Breltung pur ajed the potash one of the chief cornpo cn s In certain forms of explores, at Fa s request M Stanch field said and in so dol jc acted in good Jalth and was entl el nnocent of any plan to destroy sh pa. Decision on the motion was put o er until January 3 whe decisions on sim la motions by two of the other defendants wil be rendered William M Culle whose name was first given as Ro ert McCaule and who was taken o po Ice t eadquarte a at the re quest of department of J stlce officials Investiga nx the plot to d am te he Wetland anal was released oday af er having bee questioned b federal offl dais. Although M Caules adml ted having known Paul Koenlg chief of the Ham bttrg-Amartctuk line detectives who is ac cused by tha government of having for nulla ted the walland canal plot for five years, and having recent y been in hit employ aa a tra ler federal officials aid there was nothing to warrant hold Ing the man |
