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Show ESPIONAGE MEN PLMOUILTY Sent Spies to England to Get Information for German i Military Authorities. ju. S. CITIZEN IN PLOT Secret Service Agents Work on Case for Months to Expose Scheme. NEW YORK. March 21 Albert O. Sander and Charles N. Wunnenberg, indicted as members of tho central powers' war film exchange, on the charge of engaging in a military enterprise enter-prise and sending spies to England to get information for the German military mil-itary authorities, today pleaded guilty, They will be sentenced tomorrow. It was charged by the federal authorities author-ities that Sander and Wunnenberg engaged en-gaged George Vaux Bacon of St. Louis, an American newspaper man, to go to England in the role of a spy and that Bacon received money from Wunnenberg Wunnen-berg to pay his expenses. It was alleged al-leged also that the conspirators furnished fur-nished Bacon with quantities of invisible invis-ible or "sympathetic" ink for use in communication between them. Bacon, who was arrested in England, was permitted to return hero to testify testi-fy against Sander and Wunnenberg before be-fore the grand Jurv. This led, it was said, to the two men pleading guilty. Secret service agents worked on the case for months and the plot was exposed ex-posed before Bacon was arrested and his photograph sent here, as the federal feder-al authorities were able to connect him with the operations of Sander and Wunnenberg. The activities of the indicted in-dicted men extended back to May, 1916, it was charged, during which period pe-riod Sander and Wunnenberg are alleged al-leged to have sent no less than fifteen so-called newspaper men to England and Ireland. Much valuable Information, Informa-tion, it was alleged, was received by Sander and Wunnerberk through the mails, or brought here by one of the bogus newspaper men traveling as American citizens. Sander is 35 years old and had been connected with the German-American literary defense committee. He was a former employe of the New Yorker Staats Zeitung and dramntic editor on the DeuLsches Journal. Wunnenberg claims to have been naturalized twenty-five years ago. With Bacon, they were indicted March 3. nn |
