avit had passed
through Koenig's hands before it went to Ambassador Bernstorff, who
submitted it to Secretary of State Bryan.

The proceedings against Koenig were initiated to establish the charge
that Koenig used improper influence to induce Stahl to make the
affidavit.

While Stahl was waiting in the Marshal's chamber in the Federal
Building, after his arrest, for the arrival of Edward Sandford, a
lawyer, of 27 William Street, who had been assigned to act as his
counsel, he was asked, through an interpreter:

"Would you be willing to spend twenty years in jail for your
Fatherland?"

"Make it a hundred!" he replied, in German, and then broke into a
hearty laugh.

Stahl is about 27 years old and slightly under middle size. He has a
round, somewhat rosy countenance, dark hair getting very thin in
front, and parted in the middle, dark-brown eyes and a small,
closely-cropped dark mustache. He was calm and smiling, ready with his
answers, and very insistent and emphatic in repeating that he had seen
the guns on the Lusitania.

He was neatly dressed in a dark mixed suit, with a new straw hat, a
green tie on which was a stickpin with a dog's head in porcelain,
brightly polished tan shoes, and lavender socks with scarlet-embroidered
flowers.

Following is the complaint on which he was held:

Raymond H. Sarfaty, being duly sworn, deposes and says that
he is an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern
District of New York.

That on the 10th day of June, 1915, there was then and there
pending before the Grand Jury of the United States in and
for the Southern District of New York, a certain proceeding
against one Paul Koenig, alias Stemler, and others, upon a
charge of having conspired to defraud the United States, in
violation of Section 37, U.S.C.C.; that on the said 10th day
of June, 1915, the foreman of said Grand Jury, Frederick M.
Delano, an officer duly empowered and qualified to
administer oaths in the proceedings before said Grand Jury,
duly administered an oath to the said Gustav Stahl, that he
would testify to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth, with respect to the aforesaid matter then being
presented before the said Grand Jury; that the said Gustav
Stahl, at the time and place aforesaid, and within the
district aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this
court, after said oath wa