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Show Capt. Von Rintelcn Veracious Eater of American Soap NEWARK, N. J., April 1 At a time when his fellow countrymen would have exchanged a field piece for a cake of castile, Captain Franz on RIntelen, convicted German plotter, Wtth an aversion for the Atlanta pt-ni tentiary, was blowing soap bubbles In the New. irk jail, in an effort to con vince examining physicians he was Buffering from tuberculosis. This became known today, when officials of-ficials of the jail asserted the ex-German naal officer had borrowed" all the soap possessed by his fellow pris oners and after having eaten it by the pound, had emitted from his Hps s roam which for a time puzsled the doctors Put ihe unpalatable meal was eaten In vain for. still spouting bubbles, bub-bles, von RIntelen was shipped south oo |