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Suspect Master Spy Sent Code in Drawing K. R. W. Sturzel Hushed From Porto Rico to Georgia Camp Illustration Full Of Cryptograms Sketch He Drew in Periodi? cal Had Hieroglyphics Known Only in Berlin Mercer K. R.

W. Stursel, a brilliant Germsn, a spy who has been ivrstir-g chiefly in the Caribbean and as one of the most and enemy aliens with whom the of Justice and the Secret have bad cope, was taken -on this city yesterday to Fort Ogle Georgia, under an armed guard. Be was brought hero on Monday from "orto Kico by a United States marshal two deputies, who had him under en the ran up the coast? For nearly four months the insular of Porto Rico, under Colonel; K- Shan ton, have boon seeking to gt? the confidence of Sturzel, but; it was only a few ago that they in trapping him in his ef? forts to get information to Germany. Trapped by Police In desperation to convey something urgent importance to Berlin, he in trusted a confidential mission to a roan tie of the police? and he was immediately. With an over? t-helming amount of evidence confront in the indictment found by the mad juTy, Sturzel broke down and ont admitted that he was a Ger spy, hu? a special intelligence jjeat of the imperial German assigned to get information to Boto, is bell to be his most in Fsioos trick to crrt secret informatios Germany via Spain was in the form i and wash drawing he made for the "Puerto Rico Ilustrado1' in 17.

and which as cover fcsigD of that periodical in tho issue January 5 of this year. This pajxer a large circulation in Spain, and was aware that, through no in? criminating effort on his part? his cyptic illustration would fail into proper hands in Barcelona. Valencia ox 1 anapena? and reach the Gorman dstmation. Although posed as a business man, he was exceedingly versatile, and his talents to further his eipior. ige activities? Code in Drawing Painting and drawing: were amone accomplishments, and by the aid of his talent he managed to cn-eate for the "Puerto Rico Ilustrado" the an Arabian woman, entitled Tipo Arahe," -which the Porto Rican au? thorities literally teems with "ode letters and hieroglyphics deciph frable only in Germanv or by Sturzel.

Persons with the handling 4 codes and cryptograms have ex? pressed the belief that in his cover may have revealed im? portant information to the enemy, er? as to American activities and defense? in the Caribbean. This was riven particular significance since knnu-n that German agents have been active in their efforts to procure a submarine base in Caribbean and West Indian waters, and that the KaisCT had many sympathizers in Venezuela. Just about the time thai the govern? ment agents began to lay their to trap SutrzaL Cipriano Castro, the ex-Dictator of Venezuela, was orderod out of Trinidad by the British gov? ernment and immediately returned to Porto Rico, where he had mudo lus homo for ten months before tho United Matos declared war Germanv. Sturael was sent to Porto Rico about the time tho European war began and was employed by one of tho biggest Gorman business on tho island. He always had an" abundance of monev and was a liberal spender.

It was the belief of tho Secret Service who were watching him that ho in the pay of Wilholmstrasse. Sturael' gavo tho impression always that his parents were wealthy and that it had been their custom to "give generously to the chil? dren far away from home." About nine months ago, when tho United States shut down upon the spreading of funds by German propa? gandists, Sturzel was forced to get money to carry out some important work, and, in desperation, i funds on three occasions, it is claimed. His own employers turned upon him, I and, under promise of restitution, ho 1 sailed secretly for New York. He was arrested hero and taken back to Porto Rico, where he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment. Closely Watched on Island Although he lived in Ponce, Sturr.cl of lato was constantly travelling about the island.

His mail was watched con? stantly since his liberation, but the authorities were unable to observe any? thing objectionable in it. He was al? lowed to roam at will, that ho might i bo observed, for it was generally un derstood that he was giving informa tion to confederates in New York and Key West and receiving instructions from them. Agents of the Department of Juntice in this city would give no information i yesterday relative to Sturzel apart irom tho fact that he was brought here and subsequently taken to Georgia. It ivas learned that Sturxcl was greatly depressed over his internment, and, being of a despondent nature, it is believed that he is likely to niako valuable revelations concerning a branch of spy work in this city con? cerning which littlo is known. Alleged Plotter, Caught on Rich Woman's Tip "Word was roce'ved here yesterday by officials of tho Department of Jus? tice of the arrest in Chicago of Breitling, cousin of Edward Brei? tling, wealthy shipping broker, after a of more lhan a year, extend? ing ever every part of the United Stteins-.

A wealthy woman, it is said, gavia the by telephone, the tip wtiic'i re-soill-ed in the caprnre of "the raai? tvha bad c-Jndfd numerous agents seeking urn as a daugrrDUS alien. Brcitung was indicted more than years on a charge of complicity to blow up munition ships and he.s been at liberty under baiL The capture of Brei tun accounts for. the lust of the ship dynamite plotters IPl? still left in this country. Five others were indicted the same with him. Of these.

Faul Daechc was convicted, sentenced to a two-year term, and appealed, his case com in? in the Court of Appeals this OTT. in g. Lieutenant Robert Fay, -chief of the -plotters, and Walter Scholz -aere also brought to trial. Fay received eight years' imprisonment, but escaped from Atlanta into Mexico soon after his carceratioTi. Scholz is eexving his four year "bit" al the penitentiary 1 here? of the other two, Englebert Brcnk horst was reJeased on his own recog? nizance, and Assistant United States Attorney John Knox said last night that when last heard from be was in Mexico.

Herbert Kienzle has been in? terned for the duration of the war. The search foT Breitung has been WHO CAN READ A SPY'S MESSAGE TO GERMANY? do Entered second class matter March 7, 19 at the Post office nt San Juan, ft 'Published und ilistimuted u-rm-t autnuiiAcU by the Act of October 1017, on file at the Post Office of 5an Juan, Porto By order of the President, A. S. Burlcson, Postmaster General" IX. SAN JUAN.

P. ENERO 5 DE 1918. NUM. 410. TIPO ARASE Above is the cover design of tho "Puerto Rico Ilustrado," a society journal of San Juan, Porto Rico.

The picture, a cryptic head, was drawn by Werner K. R. W. Sturzel, a confessed German spy, taken yesterday for internment at Fort Ogelthorpe, Georgia. Sturze! has drawn into the picture- marks and images which are supposed to be code letters conveying in? formation to the German government, figures are.

easily distinguishable immediately over the signa? ture and in many other placas throughout the illustration. It is obvious that many of the lines were not in? tended to add beauty or grace to the picture. The strange images are seen to the best advantage under a magnifying glass. P.y means of the drawing, according to some authorities, the spy conveyed his messages to Germany by way of Spain, where the "Puer? to Rico Ilustrado'' has a large circulation. of difficulties.

Ilia whereabouts was ascertained more t-han a score of times, but the wily German always man to slip away. During the last few months the trail has led through Wash? ington. Baltimore, Buffalo. Milwaukee, Detroit and many other large cities. Sea Water for Bread Making PARIS, Jan.

5 (by chemists advocating the use of sea water in the making of bread. This would not pave the transportation of salt, it is urged, but would add materially to the healthful properties of the bread, owing to the fact that sea water contains, besides salt, a valuable percentage of magnesium and calcium. Weber Heilbroner Notwithstanding Rapidly Increasing Prices of All-Wool Overcoatings Announce Beginning Today i Their Annual Sale of Fall and Winter Overcoats At the Following Reductions: I $30, $25 and $20 Fancy Overcoats $18.50 $30 and $25 Fancy Overcoats. 22.50 $35 and $30 Fancy Overcoats. 26-50 $40, $3730 and $35 Fancy Overcoats 32.50 $45, and $40 Fancy Overcoats 37.50 No Charge Alterations The Government Bought -up a portion of the available supply of heavy enough to be traed for blankets in the -i It is atill keeping the mill machinery engaged on Army work.

Inia ia niriking acaree and reiy much higher for next tempt na not to pu? theae Overcoats on aale at reductiona. Ijj Bat we in the beginning to do business in one way to clear li stocika at the each and we shall not depart from it until the supply clothing send woolens become? 80 short that we must conserve ia a if the wax c-cmtirmca. Il While we have not reduced our Overcoats, these reductions apply to a greatt majority of them. Moat of our staple Overcoats are offered at what appear to be rednctiona, but in light of what it will cost us to replace I them, they all radically reduced. A f-ew of them nrhtch cannot he replaced next year ci any price, have been excluded from the reductions, but the prices at which they are being extremely reasonable.

nxrifty men avail themselves of these reductions as as one otr xaxym coats, even if for futurs tas-e, rhe fabrica are a'B the Weber and HeiTbroner stylo story need not be repeated here. Five Clothing Stores 30 Broad 241 Broadway 85 Broadway 44th and BroaoVay 42d and Pihla Avenue i i ii i um Rintelen Again On Trial as Spy He and 11 Others Charged With Plot to Blow Up Ship I Franz von Bintelcn, already twice convicted of complicity in German plots, found himself in familiar sur I ronndinga yesterday, when he and eleven co-workers the past were put on trial before Federal Judge Howe, charged with having conspired to blow up the supply Kirk Oswald in the second year of the war. i It took little more than an hour choose the jury, after the court hac turned down the plea of George Gor don Battle for a delay "until interna tional affairs are bo adjusted that the i defendants can get a fair trial." Although ho had told his story bo i fore, Detective Henry Barth, formerly a member of the New York Bomb Squad and now with the Federal Secret i Service, made a most interesting wit ness. Barth reintroduced in his testimony I the confession which he obtained from Captain Charles von Kleist, anothor of the present defendants, to whom he 1 represented himself as an agent of tho German government and nn intimate of the lately notorious Wolf von Igel. "Von Kleist." the detective testified, "told me how fire bombs had been made for the destruction of vessels carrying munitions and food to the Allies.

He said five vessels had been so de? stroyed." Twice in his testimony Barth touched on discoverie? which hark back to tho of the Lusitania. Ils said that Bonford Bonflace, ono of tho defend? ants, had told him that one Wootcr born, wireless operator aboard tho Frederic GroHse, was numbered among the bomb Barth, who drawn the carno de? duction before at plot triait, ho believed that bomb? turned over to "West Side people" along with cash bad been placed aboard the Luistania. Order Better Car Service To Richmond Ship Plants Kmphatk direction3 wer? given by Publie Commission yester- day U) Vise BteUn Island Transit Light and Eailroad Company, which operated to provide cOditional necessary to cftM prop- for tks number of men em- st the (shipbuilding plants on th? north of Island, Some of engaged in government work, and all on construction work of tbe highest importance. Complaints hav? been heard by the i fur nom? time that th? ser- th? trolley lines and to cart? for ntmfcor of workman, and that with tha coming of sprine thara would probabiy ai least 12,000, und isibly more, in in? on north shoro of tho island, ni tits Iwo transit i stated wsru nal i of to e.ny i eiUfit, t'uay t'-o'. the nwn, The pai4 hy criiipyard? hav? maav from tha i tSM railroad and trollay Unas, augKaatad tfci4 trellay cars eeald bo Jaaaed an4 by ib? saipbuiiding Assembly Hostile To Shiplacoff's Attack on Press Speaker Advises Socialist to Behave So Papers Can't Criticise ALBANY, Jan.

22. Abraham I. ShiplacolT, loader of the ten Socialists in the Assembly, made speech in the house to-day in which he com? plained about, being mistreated by the press. Assemblyman G. Mc Cue, Democrat, of Manhattan, object? ed to Shiplacoff's generalizations as insulting.

He asked him to be spe? cific. Then Shiplacoff, after thinking a bit, recalled that The Tribune had said something that displeased him. The offence wa3 in the recital of the facts surrounding Shiplacoff's holding up of a government war measure. Then he asked if there wasn't of obtaining redress. Speaker iweet said that where a member felt lTimself maligned he could introduce a resolution which, if supported by a majority of tho House, would result in the arraignment of the accused be? fore the bar of tho house.

"But I presuma." continued the Speaker, "that the easiest manner to avoid criticisms by the press would bo for each member of this body to conduct himself so that the press does not havo the opportunity of publish? ing things which the individual him- I self may feel were unjustified." Speaker Sweet then read from a newspaper clipping the following ox tract from a statement attributed to i Shiplacoff: "Our programme is sabotage. We intend to do oil the damage possible. Tbc thing on our programme is the repeal of the miserable constab- uiary which slipped through on a drunken night when floors of of? bock of tho Aacembly chamber were covered with bottles." The Speaker said he hoped that all who shared such sentiments would amend their courso and aid tho nation in this trying hour. He then shut off all debate by recognizing a motion to adjourn. Tno Assembly broke into After adjournment Assemblyman I George II, Wilteio, of Cortland, made hin way to ShiplacolT.

"Did you make that about he aBkod. "I'm not on the stand," repliod Ship- lncoff. "You may be," retorted Wi'tsle. "Why aro you so "Because I have two lions in the service, and you Appeals to Manufacturers to Play Fair on Garfield Order Philip Bird, president of the Man? Ansocintlon of New Jersoy, eppetiled to the 1,400 memborn of tho naisogintion yesterday to observo th? (Jartlold cloilng ordor In spirit, as well as in letter, by making no nttempt to run extra hour? to compensate for loas of tima, "Why we strive; to circumvent thrt application of 'the order by on dtntvorlne to run eKtrn to make up supposed lost and thua do vary purpoa-j and object uouff'tt ha itskacf, "Why evury tsolii.atil be used to exempt my' Ar? wo not by act? dUrvcpset of authority If we aonlov wo mpst not do ft? exercise." Broadway at 34th Street Announce, Beginning This Morning, An Extraordinary Sale of Men's Fur Motor Coats at Greatly Reduced Prices All from our regular stock, made of very care? fully selected pelts. At these remarkable reductions they are values of no little importance: Black Mancliurian Dog Fur Coats.

Formerly $29.50 Natural Cinnamon Dog Fur Coats. Formerly $55. Now $39.50 Kangaroo Fur Coats. Formerly $69.50. Now $49.50 Wombat Fur Coats.

Formerly $75.. Now $59.50 Raccoon Fur Coats. Formerly Socialist Aldermen Assailed For Bitter Attack on Wilson Braunstein, of Bronx, Gives Excuse That He Was Merely Following Example of Senate in Hitting at Feul Shut? down for Inquiry Side-tracked. The seven Socialist members of the Board of Aldermen held the centre of the stage at the meeting of the board yesterday and were responsible for a lively session. The excitement started when the board rejected a resolution introduced by one of the Socialist mem bers at the last meeting requesting the President of the United States to modi? fy the order of the Federal Fuel Ad? ministrator in regard to a five-day shutdown of industries and Monday holidays.

The Committee on General Welfare, to which the resolution had been referred, reported, among other things, that it showed a "malevolent desire to criticise the President of the United States." The Socialist aldermen bitterly fought I for the resolution. At one stage of the proceedings Alderman Alexander Braunstein, Socialist, of The Bronx, in criticising the manner in which the Federal authorities had handled the coal situation, made a remark which Alderman O'Rourke, of Staten Island, interpreted as a reflection on President Wilson. Jumping to his feet, Alder? man O'Rourke cried: i "I warn the member not to criticise the President of the United States. I won't stand for it. Let him take care what he says." Merely Aped Senators President Alfred E.

Smith of the board had difficulty in bringing Alder? man O'Rourke and other members of! the board to order. After the excite? ment had quieted down in the face of persistent poundings of the gavel, Al eferman Braunstein explained that he had no intention of criticising Presi? dent Wilson, but was simply following members of the United States Senate in their criticism of the method pur? sued by the Administration. Ail members of the board but the seven Socialists voted to reject the res? olution. The resolution stated that the responsibility for the fuel crisis did not rest upon the working people and that the effect of the order would be to deprive millions of working people of the means to purchase food and fuel unless- they were guaranteed the loss of earnings. The responsibility rested upon the public authorities, it declared The committee's report stated tha4 it was opposed to the resolution or the ground that it proceeded on false premises wholly unwarranted by the facts.

The report also said that the resolution "insinuates that the crisis is due to the failure of the public au thorities to use due forethought ir safeguarding the people's welfare This, in our opinion, is an unjus: aspersion indicative of unfriendlinesi and a malevolent desire to criticisi the President of the United State and his representatives in their ear nest endeavors to sustain the countr in war, and its adoption would be un worthy the honor, the dignity and patriotism of the people of the Cit; of New York, as represented by thei aidermen." Failing on their coal resolution, Al gernon Lee. leader of the Socialis group, introduced a resolution callin i upon the State Food Commission to declare ice a necessity of life and empower the city to purchase, store and sell it to the citizens. Alderman Lee declared that the city would be confronted with an ice shortage which would more than parallel the present cual crisis. Be called attention to a communication sent by the Federal Food Commission to creamery man? agers and warning them that they may not bo able to obtain ice this summer, and the surest way of a shortage in ice is to harvest it now. The resolution was referred to 'he Committee on General Welfare.

Mayor Hylan a message to ident Smith suggesting that the boi.r?'. appoint a committee- to take testimoTiv lor the purpose of determining meavi of curing some of the evils which ht-4 been instrumental in bringing the present coal crisis. "It is the imme'liate duty r.f this ad? ministration," said Mayor Hvlan, "tf reconstruct, along sound comr.ierei (, and humanitarian lines, the method hi which coal is retailed to the people New York. Outside of what happen before the ooal gets to our city, there are too manv intermediate taxes mon bucket of coal from the time it leaves the dock until it is into tiie kitchen stove. "The chief sufferers through fhis condition are the poorest of our They are unorganized and unabie to re 1 tain skilled advocates to plead their cause.

Hence, it is easy to understand why they might continue to be less victims of a bad system without your aid. I do not presume to sa; which of the intermediate orocesses useless- and which, therefore, shoulJ i be eliminated. I do know that intel ligent study of this subject by you: 1 board will make plain which are the useful and which the parasitic ele? ments." Theatre Used Candle Light Reading electric signs by candle light is one of the odd conditions brought by the war. When the "lightless night" order issued by the Federal Fuel 1 Administrator went into effect in Con cinnati the manager of a theatre con? tracted for Japanese lanterns, which were hung around the marquis in front of the theatre. Other lanterns were suspended on rods so as to illuminate the electric letters advertising the at? Times-Star.

Cijarm anb purpose of tfje Campion aslope THE Hampton Shops, with its twelve spacious Galleries, appeals, with an abundancy of allurement, to all those who love beautiful things. As it concerns itself chiefly with the Decoration and Fit? tings of the entire house, so here you will land, not only the famed Hampton Repro- ductions of the historic fur? niture of olden times, but all else that helps to make the perfect room. jtapMiiopg; l8 farina Sf Parr irks Cathf oral RrutforR Decoration nu Textiles Furniture i i.n!u.