(_From Detective Corell to the Commanding Officer of the Bomb Squad, April 1, 1916_) Sir: In compliance with orders received I went to Lewes, Delaware, to investigate and if possible bring back one Ernest Schiller, an alleged German spy.... (_From, a statement taken by Corell at Lewes, Del., March 31, 1916_) My name is Ernest Schiller. I am a native of Russia, 23 years of age.... My occupation is that of textile engineer. I arrived in New York in April, 1915, in the steamship _Colorado_ from Hull, England, as a member of the crew, my assignment on the ship being greaser. My name on the ship was Frank Robertson. When I arrived at New York the captain gave me some of my money and I left the ship. I worked all told about eight or nine months, in Pawtucket, R. I., Lawrence, Mass., Whitinsville, Mass., Newton Upper Falls, Mass., and finished erecting a factory in Salem, Mass.... (_From the examination of Clarence Reginald Hodson, alias Ernest Schiller, Robinson, Robertson, A. Henry, New York, April 1, 1916_) _Question._ What is your full name? _Answer._ Clarence Reginald Hodson. _Q._ What other names are you known by? _A._ Robinson, Robertson, A. Henry, and Ernest Schiller. _Q._ Where were you born? _A._ Petrograd, Russia. _Q._ Where were your father and mother born? _A._ My father in Russia, my mother in Germany. We lived in Petrograd until I was about 10 or 11. Then we went to England. My father and mother left me in Chatham House College, in Ramsgate. I stayed there three years.... _Q._ What is the name of the head of that college? _A._ A. Henry. _Q._ Did you graduate? _A._ No. I was put on a Cadet--a Marine ship--named _Conway_, to train as a marine officer. I was on that ship two years. I left when I was 17 and went to work in a machine shop in Oldham, outside Manchester, and learned the trade of machinist there. I left there in August, 1914, and I joined the English Army.... I was asked to leave the job--was told that they would not have any young fellows on the job.... My boss said that sooner or later I should have to leave and that it would be better to go now, and that there would be a better opportunity. _Q._ At that time were your sympathies with the English? _A._ They were never with England. I just wanted to see what it was like to be a soldier. I didn’t intend to fight against Germany. I did not think the war would last long--only a few months--and I knew all the time I could run away if I wanted to. So in December I left. _Q._ What was the occasion of your leaving?