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Show ARREST OF THE GERMAN CONSUL 1 Seattle, Wash, March 17 Dr Wll-helm Wll-helm Mueller, imperial German consul con-sul at Seattle, and his secretary B Shields, were served with notice of arrest today at the consulate They were charged with conspiracy in attempting at-tempting to corruptly Influence John Murdock an employe of tno Seattle Construction and Dry dock company by Inducing him to sell business secrets se-crets of his emploers. Consul Mueller and his secretary aro accused by tho state of Washington Washing-ton of offering Murdock a cash consideration con-sideration to supply them with information infor-mation bearing out Ambassador Bern-storffs Bern-storffs charge that the Seattle corporation cor-poration was shipping knock-down submarines to the British government via British Columbia. The Information against the German representatives, filed bv County Pros-OCUtlng Pros-OCUtlng Attorney Alfred H. Lundln. jointly charges them and Dan Tar-natzsky. Tar-natzsky. a free lanco detective, with conspiracy. Consul Denies Charge. Consul Mueller denied tonight that he h.id any agreement with Murdock or the detective to purchase anything nor did he arrange to have thnm steal papers from the construction company. He declared that Tarnat2-skv Tarnat2-skv approached him with a statement that ho had information that submarines subma-rines were being built here for the British navy, but that he had dealt with the detective only so far as was necessary to determine whether there was truth In the report The consul expressed confidence hi a prompt dismissal of the charge against him. Murdock and the detective were arrested ar-rested last night on a Joint grand larceny charge and were detained at tho county Jail until this morning, when Murdock, who will be held by th prosecutor, as the state's principal princi-pal witness, was released on $1000 bail. The warrants for the arrest of Consul .Mueller and his serrotary were served on thorn through their counsel. Murdock Is 22 years old and has been employed as assistant shipping clerk at the plant of the Seattle Construction Con-struction and Drydork company for two years. In a statement to the prosecuting attorney be said the negotiations ne-gotiations for the delivery of the Information In-formation said to l)it.- been sought by Consul Mueller were still pending when he was arrested. He had originally demanded $1600, he said, but later agreed to accept 1000. He asserted that although he nad certain alleged information ready for delivery" deliv-ery" at a conference held at the consulate con-sulate last evening, the rr- was a hitch over money and the conference came to naught. Bills of Lading Found. Nino original bills of lading wern recovered from under the mattress of Murdook's bed by a special agent of the prosecuting attorney's office. iiiantity of blank forms of bills of lading also were found there. Th purport of these bills has not been N .riled by any of the principals in i he affair. Whether Murdock really had anything of value to offer to the iJerman consul is not disclosed hy the papers. President J V Peterson of the drydock company says his firm is not building submarines for the llritish or any other government at tvar. The action against the Imperial German consul and his secretary' 's based on a state statute, which reads: "Every person who shall give, offer or promise, directly or Indirectly, any compensation gratuit or reward to any agent, employe or servant of any person or corporation, with intent to Influenco his action in relation to hla principal's, employer's or master's business shall be guilty of a misdemeanor." misde-meanor." The penalty is a fine of not moro than $1000 or one year in Jail, or both, In the case of each defendant Tarmatzsky said he came to this city from Portland several works ago, and. learning of ' some submarine subma-rine mixup In which the name of the Seattle Construction and Drydock company appeared," he went to the German imperial consulate and offered of-fered to obtain "information for the Imperial government " He said his services were accepted and he weut to work last Thursday. Statement of Murdock. Murdock said he was at work at the big plant when a telephone call came on Thursday from T.irnatzsky. Tho detective is alleged to have sal I ho had an important business matter to discuss with the shipping clerk and made an engagement for Saturday at noon. At that time, the rmttter of oh-I oh-I aiag Information for tho German consul was broached, Murdock de- ) i red. Once only, said Murdock, did he have a talk with the German consul, and that was last evening. On Sunday Sun-day night, he alleged, ho met Sec re tary Bchulti and Taniatzsky in a room at a hotel and named his price as $1500, but later agreed to cut to $1000 if he "delivered the goods." Ho declared there was outlined to him "just what tho goods should consist con-sist of." The consul's secretary told him, said Murdock, that Consul Muel-l Muel-l r had information that the Seattle Construction and Drvdock company nad shipped and was shipping marine parts to another drydcxk eompany at ancouver for reassembling and con M.ruetlon into submarines for use In the British navy. What Consul Mueller Muel-ler -wanted was information in black : and white, bearing on this situation Murdock said he stole nine original hills of lading yestorday. together with a bundle of blank forms, so that copies could be made from the original. orig-inal. The complaint on which Tarnatzsky and Murdoek were arrested was issued is-sued Mondav morning. It alleges pr.ind larceny, . harL-m- the two defendants de-fendants with stealing papers. Tarnatzsky s statement, like that of Murdock, was made to the prose-CUting prose-CUting attorney. President J. V Patterson of the Seattle Construction & Drydock company, com-pany, Bald tonight: I ur submarine department has been entirely Idle nearly a year. The German consul would have been mad" welcome at our plant The stolen biils of lading covered tne most Innocent In-nocent shipments |