The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-12-03
GERMAN CRUISERS
REcEIVEDCARGOES
Supplies Shipped To Them BY
New York Official Of Ham
burg-American
Conspiracy Was Nationwide and
Involved Ports On Atlantic
4: g. And Pacific

a. OOncluUeu from rage
part OF a conspiracy that extended
from New York and Philadelphia 10
New Orleans and San Francisco in
which German money was spent by
the million and in which the defend
ants were the leading characters.
In the performance Of this alleged
conspiracy, Mr.. Wood said, the de-
PENDANTS erode roughshod over the
laws and treaties of the United
States"
For Leipzig and Dresden
1--WE 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 Doctor Buenz EN-.
ployed a man named Kulenkampf to
clear two vessels in a hurry from
Philadelphia at the very opening of
the war, telling him that this was de-
sirable because the Hamburg Ameri,
can Line should not appear in the
transaction.
awe can prove that one of the yes
sels--the Berwind-was loaded with
coal brought from the Berwind Coal
Company and we understand that Doc
tor Buenz wanted Mr.. Berwind of the
coal company to clear the steamer, hut
that Mr.. Berwind demurred and XII
lenkampf was called in to do the work
r"We shall prove that not long after
wards Kulenkampf received $750,00O
from somewhere in Germany-he did
not know where or from whom--that
he put this money into New York
banks and that soon after Captain
Boy.Ed came to him and told him that
the money was to be spent under mis-
(Boy- Ed ~ direction. We shall show
that 100000 to 100000 of this
money was sent to San Francisco
where it was spent to charter and
supply three ships with coal and pro
visions and that these vessels sailed
out and met the German cruisers
Leipzig and perhaps the Dresden.
lone hundred and thirty 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 $750,000 was spent under
Captain Boy Eds personal direction
and instructions
"Sixteen or seventeen ships wer'
used, Mr.. Wood continued, "by thu
| defendants to carry coal, water, wine
saurkraut and other needed supplies tt
the Leipzig, Dresden, Cap Trafalgar
qEna, Santa Lucia, Eleanor DOrWer ant
other German men of war.
D "These steamers all carried super
cargoes bearing sealed instruction.
which are opened after the vessel
steamed away, sometimes within thu
three mile limit.
! ,"The defendant hotter, we shall show
signed the letters which the supercar
goes carried and these letters, address
ed to the captains of the steamers Sc
leeted to supply German warships, in
strueted the captain to obey the super
cargoes and promised them liberal gra
tituities for doing so.
"We shall show that after these yes
sells sailed for BuenOs Ayres, La Quay
ra, Cadiz, Morovia and other destina
lions, the supercargOes instructed tn
captains to go elsewhere and that tn
captains obeyed these instructions TAX
| ing their vessels to meet German war
ships at sea and delivering to the war
ships the supplies aboard.
awe shall show that these defen
dants conspired at various meetings
TO do all these things; that in s.
doing, they rode rough shod over tn
laws and treaties of the United State
as cOntemptuously as if those laws an
treaties had been mere scraps of pa
per-