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Show HUDSON CONFESSES TO MANY CRIMES New York, April 2. Important nr-reBts nr-reBts are expected within forty-eight hours, tho police announced today, jn connection with the case of Clarencn Reginald Hudson, also known Ernest Schiller, the German stowaway, stowa-way, who, single-handed, captured th British steamship Matoppo at sea and cowed her crew of fifty-six mnn. When Hudson was arraigned today on a charge of "suspicion of consnir. ing" to dynamite the Cunard ll" steamship Panonia, the district nJ-tomey's nJ-tomey's office requested that his -animation be deferred until tomorrow, explaining that Important develon-ments develon-ments were expected almost' immediately. imme-diately. To save himself from deportation to England and tho possibility of being be-ing executed there as a spy, Hudson has "confessed" to planning eiDlo-siens eiDlo-siens on many .munitions boats hound for ports of the entente allies. t.h police say. Ho has repeatedly askwi detectives to assure him ho would b held in the United States. According to the Btory told by Hudson, Hud-son, hin effortB to cauBe tho destruction destruc-tion of steamers were financed bv a young woman living m Balem, Ma'flR who is a German sympathizer. He np-sorts np-sorts lie went to Salem after escaping escap-ing from a training camp for th ErltJsh ormy in England, where hp was employed in a textllp mill at thft outbreak of tho war. George Heller, 24 yearB of age, a German, who admitted having mat Hudson several tlmeB at hotels jn Hohoken, was arreBted in that civ tonight by detectives and a special agent of tho department of Justice, on, a charge of being a disorderly person. |