s administered, knowingly and
fraudulently committed perjury, and that he testified in
part, in substance, and effect as follows:

That on the 30th day of April, 1915, the said Gustav Stahl
went aboard the steamship Lusitania at the City of New York,
in the Southern District of New York, with one Neal J.
Leach; that while on said steamship he saw four guns on one
of the decks of said steamship, two forward and two aft;
that the said guns were mounted on wooden blocks; that the
said guns were covered with leather.

That affiant is informed and believes, and therefore avers,
that, whereas, in truth and in fact, the said Gustav Stahl
did not, on the 30th day of April, 1915, go aboard the
steamship Lusitania at the City of New York, in the Southern
District of New York, with one Neal J. Leach, nor did he,
the said Gustav Stahl, go aboard the steamship Lusitania on
said last mentioned date; and the said Gustav Stahl did not
see four guns on the deck of the said steamship, two
forward and two aft, nor did he, the said Gustav Stahl, see
four guns on the deck of said steamship mounted on wooden
blocks; nor did he, the said Gustav Stahl, see four guns on
the deck of said steamship covered with leather.

That the said matters testified to before the said Grand
Jury by the said Gustav Stahl, as aforesaid, were material
matters in the investigation aforesaid; against the peace of
the United States and their dignity, and contrary to the
form of the statute of the United States in such case made
and provided.

That to disclose the source of affiant's information at this
time might defeat the ends of justice.

Wherefore, affiant prays that said Gustav Stahl may be
arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be.

This complaint was read to Stahl when he was taken before Commissioner
Houghton, being interpreted for him, sentence by sentence. When the
name of Neal J. Leach was read as the alleged steward who had taken
him aboard the Lusitania, Stahl exclaimed: "Not Neal." In his
affidavit he had described the steward as "A. Leach." A steward named
Neal J. Leach went down when the Lusitania was torpedoed.

When that part of the complaint was read which said that Stahl had not
seen guns on the Lusitania, he exclaimed in German:

"Yes, I did see them."

After the comp