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Show VON RINTELEN'S RUSE PROVES INEFFECTUAL NEWARK. N. J., April 1. At a time when his fellow countrymen would have exchanged a field piece for a cake of castile, Captain Franz von Rintelen, convicted con-victed German plotter, with an aversion for the Atlanta penitentiary, was blowing soap bubbles in the Newark jail, in an effort to convince examining physicians he was suffering from tuberculosis. This became known today, when officials of-ficials of the jail asserted the ex-German naval officer had "borrowed" all the soap possessed by his fellow prisoners, and, after having eaten it by the pound, had emitted from his lips a foam which for a time puzzled the doctors. But the unpalatable un-palatable meal was eaten in vain; for, still spouting bubbles, Von Rintelen was shipped south. |