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Show MfiMITE BOX 15 ! li UNDER NUDGE i Federal Authorities Investi-! Investi-! gating; Suspicious Char- j acter Arrested. I CH A KLKoTUX, W. Va., March S. i Tlie finding of a box audi as is used in discharging dynamite and other high I cpKivps under the West Virginia end I of the Ohio river bridge at Point Pleas- j ant was reported today to the United ytatp? district attorney's office here. I An jnve?tiiiation is lein made by fed- rra) autboiitie. The bridge connects i Point Plcaant with Gallipolis, Ohio. NKW YORK, March 28. Ernst Becker, Beck-er, one of six Germans on trial here i-haracd with plotting to destroy vessels I leaving American ports with munitions r for the entente allies, testified today that ''Germans are accustomed to doing as thev a re told, not to asking cjues-I cjues-I tiona.J This answer was called torth ' after ho admitted having made shells 1 fnrrlubs, but ueineM knowing for what "i'"1- bombs were to be used. " ' Becker, an electrician on board the 1 German steamship Friedricb der Grosse. ; tied up at lloboken, N". J., since the I outbreak of the European war, said he I once had served in the German army. "Do you know what a bomb is?" ' Becker was asked. "'S'ure.'" he replied. "It is one like a, Zeppelin comes along and throws , clown. f "We don't kno"w anything about t Fiich things in this country," said the 1 judge. GULF PORT, Miss., March 2H. ' harles Richard (,'onstaniin Herckenrath ! Bondam, arrested today at Long Beach, j Miss., on a charge of being a suspicious f character, will be held pending irjvesti- i cation. The federal authorities suspect j Bondam of being officially connected with the German government. Ho pro- tetcd that he is not a German agent. |