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Show I fsER i GU I TR 0 U 8 L E Two Men and Woman at j Philadelphia Charged j With Frauds. j PHILADELPHIA, March 19. 'l)jirC!tl wifh "committing customs f r 11 u fi h againxt (he United .States," in j w.niviug inercliandise Hiniif;;W from j tlie interned Gennan comrm-n-e raiders I Priuz Kitel I'rieilri. li and Kronprinz N'illielin, at the I'hi!adel.hia navy yard, ; Henry Ifohner, president of tho Henry Ifnlnmr eonipany, wholesale groee.rs of this oily; Adelhert K. Fischer, presi- j lent of the Srhnt t.e-Koertin company, n.ariiinists, and his wife, Mrs. Helena l iseher, were held in $.i()00 hail each here today. Kloyl Williams, a chauffeur, and llertliold l-'iehidis, u. helper, employees of Rohner, wero held on their oo i reeo'nizaneo ils witnesses. A serpeaut of marines, detailed to guard the gates I at the navy .yard, is said to be under (i i rest, there and other arrests are ex- peeled. Fffl'Tii nftit'ialH tonight wouM neith-i neith-i or (M)ii(irm nor deny u report that inn-; inn-; jiitiuriM had tron smuggled into the yard jirnl pliicf.i nhoard tho two ioti'rned" ves-hHh ves-hHh in oxcluui'c for oeituin articles ho nt out from tho rth'ips. These articles, according to affidavits, affida-vits, included nineteen chronometere vnluod at Boveral thousand dollars. Gov-: Gov-: eminent a gouts would not disclose , whether tlie articles were merit out of the yurd in a buni nws burter for gro-rcry gro-rcry suppliRH from the Uhouer concern or whether fiohner nimely provided 1 rfi tisK)itnt ion for Fist'hrr to remove ; eertnin articleH. ; Kohner and Fischer whiveel a hearing for trial at the June t-rm of the federal fed-eral court and u M:rvi y com pany f u r-niphed r-niphed a bond for their appearance. Mr?,. I-'ischer. btit-ause ui illness, could not be brought bKor'1 the commission. r and a hearing in Ikt case wan also w;i ived. fleyoad asserting his innocence of any wrong doing, Kohaer, on advice of counL-1, v. on Id make n" state me ut. I-'ichclif, who was a helper to Williams, Wil-liams, said he and Williams had been accustomed to make about th ree trips a week to the navy yard for several weeks to deliver pood from the Rohner concern. He asserted that neither he nor Williams knew the contents of the many boxes taken from the interned ships and hauled away on a motor truck belonging to the Rob nor place. |