Arizona republican., 1915-11-24
Witness in Trial of Ham burg-American Steamship Officials Tell of Trips of Neutral Relief Ships to German Craft
BIG CONSPIRACY
 IS ALLIE G ED
One Says German Naval Attache Personally Di- rected Expenditure of Alp proximately $750,000 De-
 posted to Witness Credit
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NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-In the al- legged conspiracy of several Hamburg American steamship line officials to deceive and defraud the United States by sending neutral relief ships with coal and other supplies to Ger man men-of- war in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the beginning of the European war, Captain K. Boy-Ed, German Naval attache, with head quarters at the German embassy in Washington. played a leading role. according to witnesses who testified in the federal court here today. One Of these witnesses swore that Captain Boy-Ed personally directed the expen- allure of approximately $750.000, which, unsolicited and unexpected had been deposited to the witness credit in a New York banking house early in September, 1914. Of this money, the witness testified s35O,0o0 was tel egraphed to the Nevada National Bank at San Francisco in one lump sum; s213,000 was paid in several amounts to the North German Lloyd Steamship Line here: about S75.000 to the Hamburg American line and by cable money order in Hamburg, and some of the remainder was still on hand. All of these disbursements, the witness said, were made by order of Captain Boy-Ed.
 This witness, Gustave B. Kulen- kampff, . German importer and ex- porter with offices here, and others testified in the trial of Dr. Karl Bu- eng, Adolph Hachmeister, George Kot- ter and Joseph Poppinghaus, all off cials of the Hamburg American line, l,f. nI,, fl, having directed the loading and dis ratching of sixteen vessels to the re- lief of a half dozen or more German warships isolated from supplies in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The testimony, which opened the govern ment's case. followed a short address to the jury by Roger E. Wood, Assist ant United States District Attorney, in which Mir. Wood said that the gov ernment would show that "the de- fendants rode rough shod over the laws and treaties of the United States as contemptuously as if those laws and treaties had been mere scraps of paper"
 William Rand, counsel for the de- fendants, offered to concede certain charges of the government involving twelve steamers, and in his conces- sion admitted that pr. Buenz and his associates had sent out the vessels as charged to meet German warships in the Atlantic and deliver their supplies. MT. Rand said that in sending these vessels his clients were acting upon legitimate orders which came to them by cable from the home office of the company in Hamburg. But the gov errment lawyers rejected the conces- sion and sought to prove their case out of the mouths of witnesses.
 The defense is not willing to admit the facts: it is trying to smother them was Mir. Woods retort to Mir. Rand's offer.
 Quite the contrary replied Mir Rand, smiDngly We are willing to admit the S75o.000 has been spent as the government is trying so hard tc prove. Why. we are willing to go much farther than that-we will admit that s2.100.0OO of German money was spent in chartering and supplying yes sells for relief of German warships."
 And how much more?" asked MT Wood
 That is all I know of was the re- ply. But, admitting the facts, we dc not admit the intent to deceive or de- fraud. as charged in the indictment
 Kulenhampff's story on the witness stand was that he had been sum- moned by telephone to the Hamburg