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Show GERMAN SUSPECT UNDER ARREST Letter Tells of Visits to Springfield Spring-field Plants and Message Flashed to Mexico. ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Search of Effects Reveal Maps, Clippings, Photographs and Suspicious Documents. ROCHESTER. N. V , March 28. Adolph Vattes, a German, is under arrest in Geneva on the technical charge of committing suicide, pending the arrival there of federal officers from Buffalo. The discovery of a letter let-ter he had written telling of visits to plants at Springfield, Mass., and other cities wh re he "found conditions all right and had flashed a notice to the j German agent for transmission to Mexico," led to his arrest. Later he attempted to kill himself with a knife. Vattes arrived in Geneva seven dav s ago and obtained employment at an automobile school. A search of his personal effects revealed maps, clippings, clip-pings, photographs and other suspi- i cious documents. |