Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-24 | Page 4 | Bomb Plotters are Insanity Victims

BOMB PLOTTERS ARE lefilTHICTIi Two of Band of Germans Who Took Explosives on Ship Are Dead. XEW YORK, Jan. 23. Insanity and death overtook two missing members of the band of Germans who plotted to destroy de-stroy food and munitions siiips leaving American ports, it was disclosed in testimony testi-mony at the trial here today of Franz von Rintelen, German naval reservist, and twelve others, charged with conspiracy. con-spiracy. Police Lieutenant Barnitz testified that Herbert Ebeling, alleged to have been the man who took the fire bombs aboard steamships in "cigar boxes." is in B'.oumingdale asylum, and Max Klein, who eluded the best efforts of the police to capture him. had died in a hospital a few weeks ago. Inspector Tunney. chief of tne bom.t I suuad. asserted one of the plotters told him that Ebeling had plac ed bombs on the Lusiiania and that he "cursed the captain cap-tain of the submarine which sank the liner because he had spoiled the 'cigars.' " Tunnev told of many ruses to learn the identity "of the paymaster of the plotters and after close questioning of Captain Otto Wolphert. a defendant, he said Wolpherl Informed him the man who financed the band was interned in Kn-gland Kn-gland but refused to name him. Inspector Tunney also declared that Charles von Kleist. the confidential ao-between ao-between in the relations between Von Rintelen and his subordinates, told him he had seen a check for .HO.uOO in possession pos-session of Dr. Waller Scheele. a Ilobnken chemist, another defendant, made payable to "Hanson." who is alleged to have beeii Von Rinteler