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Show ERNEST SCHILLER ON WAY TO PRISON German Who Held Up British Freighter Matoppo on High Seas Is Given Maximum. j WILMINGTON". Del., April 3?. Eiuest ! Schiller, alias Clarence ii. Hudson, wbo recently held up the captain and crow of fifty-six men of the British freighter i .Muloppo on t lie high seas, was on his 1 way today to the federal prison tit At-i j Inula in custody of United Stales mar- ; I shals. Schiller yesterday plt-aded guiity , to a charge of piracy and was tnveri a i life sentence. Before leaving here last night Schiller declared that his desire for revenge against England had prompted his act. At the same time, he said; he hoped to do something "for the cauce of Germany.' Ger-many.' Ho denied that robbery had been his motive and snM that the chief reason his plan to sink the .Matoppo .failed was because ho did not wunt to kill tmybody. 1 "When T look i-hare of the shi'." he j , said, "it w.-is so rough i bat ii woul-1 havi-l ntjcii murder to have foi-rer the errw lo ; gH in small boats, as 1 h;id at first in- i tended them to do." i Schiller eaid be was "highly pleased" I that he was not being pent back to 1 England. |