Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-11-26
FEDERAL COUNSEL ATTAck0;
GERMAN NAVAL ATTACHE IN
CONSPIRACY CASE
MENT WITNESS FLEES.
FLAWS OF UNITED STATES
0vERRUN WITH Contempt
Assistant District Attorney Wood Do.
cIarss Treaties Regarded as "Mere
Scraps Of Paper''-Says Evidence
Will Stow l1wIessness Ex-
tended Over Nation,

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New York, Nov. 24-Captain K.
Boyd, German naval attache at
Washington, was the directing head
under whom was spent $4,000 in
chartering and supplying neutral
steamers with coal and provisions for
German men-of-war in the Atlantic
and Pacific in August, 1914, the gov
eminent formally charged in the
opening of the trial, on charges of
conspiracy director Of the Hamburg
American line, and three of his sub
ordinates.
At the opening Of the session it be-
came known that an important wit
ness for the government had left the
Jurisdiction of the United States a
: week ago and is in Bermuda. The
name Of this witness was not dis
closed. Roger B. Wood. the assistant:
district attorney, said the man knew
he would be wanted to testify. No
reason for the witness trip to Ber-
muda could be learned.
Jurors Are Sworn In.
The Jury box was filled within an
hour after the session opened and
the jurors were accepted by both sides
and then sworn.
Immediately after this william
Rand of counsel for the defense noti-
ned Mr.. Wood the defense would
withdraw that part of the previous
admission pertaining to the alleged
connection Of Captain Boyd, Ger
man naval attache, with tho acts.
charged by the government
I'VE expect to show" Mr.. Wood
said, that this conspiracy extended
from New York and Philadelphia to
San Francisco and New Orleans. We
expect to show that DR.. BueAz en-
ployed a man named Kulenkampf to
clear two vessels in . hurry from
Philadelphia at the very opening Of
the war. telling him this was desir-
able because the Neutrality-suspicious.
line should not appear in the transao-
ton.
eerwind Loaded With Coal.
I'VE can prove that one of the ves-
sells, the Berwind, was loaded with
coal bought from the Berwind Coal
company, and we understand that DR..
Buenz wanted Mr.. Berwind Of the
coal company to clear the steamer but
that Mr.. Berwind and Kulenkampf
were called in to do the work.
I'VE shall prove that not long after
ward Kulenkampf received $7t0,O00
from some place in Germany, he did
not know where or from whom, that
he put this money in two New York
banks and that soon after Captain
Boyd told him the money was to be-
spent under his (Boy-Ed's) direction.
We shall show that 100000 to $780,
900 of this money was sent to San
Francisco, where 1t was spent to char
ter and supply three ships with COAX
and provisions and that these ships
sailed out and met the German cruts--
or Leipzig and, perhaps. the Dresden
One Of Three Vessels Purchased.
zone hundred and thtrty-five thou
sand dollars OF this money. We shall
show, was spent for the purchase out
right of one Of these three vessels and
all Of the $75o,000 was spent under
Captain Boy-Ed's personal direction
and instructions.
/ sixteen or seventeen ships were
used by the defendants to carry coal.
water, wine, 6auer kraut and other
needy supplies to the Leipzig, Dres-
den, Gap Trafalgar, Eba, Santa Lucia,
Eleanor Woermer and other German
men-of-war. These steamers all car
ried supercargoes placed aboard hT
the defendants, each supercargo bear
ing sealed Instructions which were
opened after the vessel steamed away,
: sometimes within the three-mlle
limit. -
I'VE shall show that these defend.
ants conspired at various meetings to
do all these things; that in 80 doing
! they rode roughshod over the laws and
treaties Of the United States a. con
temptuously az IL those laws and trea-
ties had been mere scraps Of paper. -