Show tS H t 4 SALT SAL A i t rr r UKE LAIU r r FRENCH t GIRL NABS SPY SUSPECT t l' l i SUSPECT I IN KASE AI R spy rJ I T t 11 rJ i I I I Will J ll Not o Fight Extradition Ex- Ex v trash tradition t t n. n aridi id d I Ha HaVe Hake v No No Fear of Trial Says Captain Fritzen By International News Service LOS ANGELES March l 9 The arrest here ere of Capt Alfred Fritzen an officer of he the German na navy vy who has hascen been cen sought for the past six months in connection with alleged bomb plots in this country was brought about I through h the aid of a beautiful year old 2 French girl Madeline Made- Made line me of Elsinore federal officials said today By International onal News S Service T OS ANGELES March larch c- c 9 l I LOS J i-J Capt Alfred Fritzen t 10 0 an I officer of the German nav navy Y l. was vas rested arrested early today at the Alhambra Al- Al I AI-I hambra home of Frank H H. H Hart president ident of or the Southern California Music company and ami held for com corn I j in the German Germani spy plot In the he I United States Fritzen is alleged to have h e e uc beun n c con connected con con- o- o I with the Wei cHand I a ml canal canal plot In f I Canada t as well as a's as other more remote remote re reo re- re I mote mOle conspiracies His Ills exact connection tion Iori with tlC the present Amerl German German-Ameri can can situation Is tR expected to he made known today at nt Wa Washington It b ts is wid however that ho he has he been en on the Ule j Mme fame government list Hat with Captain i I ed Boyed Captain von Wolf olf von on von j gel and liana Hans I I 1 Fritzen was arrested alt after r a six I months months' search He lie returned hero here from Sau San Francisco only yester yesterday ay according ac- ac cording to lo Special Agents Blanford find and Rind Haden of or the thc department of or jus ins t tice ee and went immediately to the dome of Hart Bart who some time ago ern em OHI him as a common ranch hand I I. I i Hart fart who vh had been impressed h by I the o mans man's education s and culture In Int I I l t a d 1 limn him to o remain nil all nf night ht It was wai at It 1 o 0 clock o'clock In the morning that the officials routed the tho Harta Harts out Con on nn pair pac 2 u SUSPECT DENIES SPY PLOT GUILT GUILI i Continued d from page 1 of ot bed ordered Fritzen Fritsen to dress and to took k J jail The prisoner said today he lie returned r from m Cuba a few days ago and be that fore that was in Vera Cruz Mexico lUe said ho he tried t to Mexico City but was was unable to because the railroads were torn up What I know I cant can't tell was his Io anic explanation Blanford accuses former German Consul Roedel of or planning to conceal Fritzen and of oC helping help him in the past At no time was I an agent for forthe the German Gennan go government while I was In la the United States Stabs said Fritzen I Ml MI am tom not a spy and aul never was onet one t I t 1 the outbreak of the European war in August 1911 I 1 was in New York I am ant a captain in the German navy and I made every effort to get back to the fatherland but was un- un I J I remained in tn New York a few treks after aUer war var was wai declared and I 1 then I went to Havana because I thought it was better for a German to be there than in the United States It was not long after the outbreak of or war In Europe that I was shadowed by b- y United States secret service agents In December 1914 I returned to Nev ew ev York and at the first of 1915 I i came to California and worked for Mr Mr- I J I went back East after aftel a few months' months visit here and later to Cuba I again I MONEY FROM GERMANY From Cuba I went to Vera Cruz Crus In January 1916 1 went to New Orleans Orleans Orleans Or Or- Or- Or leans and then came camo to California again While I have be u in Los A Angeles I have lla made severs severe trips t to t Tia- Tia ju ma in an au effort to get to Mexico I City At the time timo of or the attempt to destroy de stroy the Welland Volland canal in Decem I ber 1916 1915 I 1 was in New York and I Ican Ican can cnn prove an au alibi b by German Gennan and American friends who saw me there I I do not kno know Wolf Volt Volton von on Ige Igel Capt Franz von Papon Captain BoE Boy Ed Hang Hans Paul Koenig Richard Emil Leyendecker Fred or I I George Fritzen admitted he had received money several times from Germany but said it came from his famil family who arc are lIe He he would not fight extradition but hut would return to I New York immediately I had nothing to do doc with the Cuban I I revolt he lie told reporters but I know there was crooked work somewhere somewhere some some- I where in the elections and that was responsible fer the uprising I 1 knew the department of ot justice was after atter mo me and thought I was a spy On several occasions I was accosted in New York as the German dor Fritzen ritzen stoutly maintained that he lie had absolutely nothing to do with the German plots in Mexico texico and Japan So far the authorities have been unable unable un un- un able to locate Fritzens Fritzen's trunks in which they hope to find very taut tank e evidence l euce against him By Associated Press NEW YORK March Malch Alfred 9 Alfred A. A Fritzen arrested at Hartwood Ca Cal last night was indicted by a federal grand Jury in this city on April 17 I 1916 in alleged ed conspiracy hatched in I I the United States to blow up the Weiland Welland Wei- Wei land canal Indictments were returned at the same time against Captain Franz Franzon von on onI former military of the the German Gennan embassy Wolf VoU von Igel his secretary Capt Hans lans Hans agent i In n America of oC the Krupps Captain Boy Ed former German naval at at- tache Franz a German a agent ent and Constantine Constantino Covani alias Giovanni Gonzales |