Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1917 — GERMAN MADE 250 BOMBS [ARTICLE]

GERMAN MADE 250 BOMBS

Engineer cf Kaiser's Lifies Paid Him fer Work, He Testifies in Spy Trial. New York. March 30c—Wilhelm Parades. fourth engineer of the German steamship Fri* derich der ftros.se. tied up at Hoboken, X. J.. one of six Germans on trial for plotting to destroy vessels carrying soar munitions for the entente allies, testified he made 250 lead cylinders aboard the ship. They were to t»e fire bombs afterward. He said ITd turned out to be “good ones.” His specialty was soldering the infernal machines. He worked on the lead pipes 14 days for which he was paid sls by Engineer Schmidt of the Friederich der Grosse. Parades declared he did not know what the pipes were to be used for.