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Arrests in Canada Waterway Plot Lead to Maps
Paul Koenig once Hamburg-American secret service head and Richard Lyendecker were arrested in New York charged with conspiring to blow up the Welland canal. Investigators found maps and drawings in Lyendecker's Fifth Avenue office. Koenig allegedly organized the plan with spies and a plan to use nitroglycerine, mapped from Buffalo to Niagara Falls.
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New York
Paul Koenig
Hamburg-American Line
Richard Emil Lyendecker
Department of Justice
Welland Canal
Shoenig
Broadway
Steamship Company
Bureau of Investigation
Secret Service
United States
Lyendecker
Fifth Avenue
Ben
Canada
Koenig
Stemmler
Gustav ' Stahl
Stahl
Atlanta
Buffalo
Offley Iin
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Niagara Falls
Niagara’ Falls
Penal Code
Wood
Federal Grand Jury